Daily Nous
Daily Nous
Justin Weinberg
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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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If we missed anything, let us know.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Dualism by Howard Robinson and Ralph Weir....
“The paradox is that the more analytic philosophy became dominant in the universities, the more it became removed from the concerns of the average person with philosophical interests.” And “it has had little impact on the general culture...
What do you do as a philosophy professor? What does it take to get a job as a philosophy professor? To get tenure? What is teaching like? What is a philosophy department like as a work environment? How much does college or university...
Just a few years ago, the philosophy major seemed on the rise. Now, the data reveal a different picture. As Eric Schwitzgebel shares in the following guest post, the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in philosophy (and their share...
New additions to the Heap… “The careless adage that Plato banished poetry should itself be banished” — Elaine Scarry makes the case, and argues that though “philosophy and poetry are distinct inventions… each suffers by keeping the other...
“Here’s the pitch: it’s a philosophy movie…” “Huh.” “based on a philosophy book…” “I’m listening.” “by an actual philosopher.” “Go on.” “That is, a philosophy professor.” “You don’t say.” “An analytic philosophy professor.” “Sold!” Okay,...
“The system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and therefore will surely eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to be designed.” That’s Jack Clark, one of...
Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard University, is the 2025 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The Berggruen Institute hailed Sandel as “one of the world’s leading thinkers and public...
In 2023, I attended an annual conference on the humanities. In a conversation over lunch, a program manager for a state humanities council, whose job is to review grant applications for humanities projects in their state, asked me what I...
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If we missed anything, let us know.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Legal Positivism by Leslie Green and Thomas...
New links… “Do we have the right to rewrite nature so we can perpetuate our nature-killing ways?” — on using gene-editing as an environmentalist tool There were 6870 instances of book bans in the US during the 2024-25 school year. The...
A philosophy professor has a question about teaching that I think will resonate with many readers. . This professor teaches many lower- and mid-level philosophy courses in ethics and epistemology, but sometimes other subfields as well,...
According to a site that aggregates data from several betting markets, bettors think there’s a 63.9% chance that the Democratic Party will regain control of the US House of Representatives in the midterm elections scheduled for November...
The Public Philosophy Network has published the first volume in its series of “Guides to Public Philosophy.” The guides are intended to provide useful advice about engaging in public philosophy. Some of the guides cover subfields of...
New interesting things elsewhere… “Affirm the real existence of everything that is left over of the human, once politics is subtracted. Authoritarianism, practically by definition, does not want to find anything left over. It does not...