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Daily Nous provides news for and about the philosophy profession, useful information for academic philosophers, links to items of interest elsewhere, and an online space for philosophers to publicly discuss it all. The site is maintained by me, Justin Weinberg, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina.
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Last month it was reported that Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told him he would have his contract terminated in May, because of complaints about a talk he gave last...
The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP) has established the Bhimrao Ambedkar Prize in Global Pragmatism. It is the first prize from an American scholarly organization named in honor of Bhimrao (B.R.) Ambedkar. Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891-1956) was a well-known and highly respected political figure,...
A professor writes in with some questions that arose during the recent season of graduate admissions. They write: How are departments putting up their prospective graduate students during visits? Are they housing them with current grad students? In a hotel? In a hotel with other prospective students? An AirBnB? With...
The Journal of Natural Law is a new peer-reviewed journal “committed to publishing the best interdisciplinary research on natural law in philosophy, theology, and legal theory.” The journal is edited by Brian Besong (St. Francis University). He authors a surprisingly polemical introduction to the journal in its...
Latest links… “Humans now are just having the right tools and desire to be able to look at whale voices in this way to see the complexity that has been there all along” — new analyses shows that whale vocalizations are “highly complex” and similar to human ones When colleges treat degrees like job credentials and...
As reported in January, the American Philosophical Association (APA) recently began—and halted—an experiment with making one of its three divisional meetings each year a wholly-online conference. The experiment with online meetings was prompted largely by a campaign by Philosophers for Sustainability. The Central...
This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Early Modern Rationalism by Peter West, Kevin Lower, Natalia...
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced its 2026 class of fellows, and two philosophers are among them. They are: Corey Barnes (Northwestern University) for his project, “Race’s Shadowy Subjects: Conceptions of Race in Early Black Intellectual Thought”: This project reconstructs early Black...
John Schwenkler, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will be moving to the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Schwenkler works in philosophy of action, ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of perception. He is the author of Anscombe’s...
Dale Dorsey, professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, has died. Aaron Garrett writes: It is with great shock and sadness that I report the sudden passing of Dale Dorsey. Dale recently moved to Somerville College Oxford after having taught for many years at Kansas. As those who knew him will attest, Dale...
Anthony Chemero, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, will be moving to Vanderbilt University. Professor Chemero works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and phenomenology. He is the author of Intertwined Creatures among other writings, which you can learn more about here and...
“Unfortunately, the types of people for whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—and whose career trajectories might be most dramatically shifted given freedom from their usual constraints—are infrequently their beneficiaries.” In an article at Public Books,...
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