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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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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: Many-Valued Logic by João Marcos, Adam Přenosil, and Paul Egré....
New links… The Sorites Paradox isn’t just about concepts, the Problem of the Many isn’t just about objects — and there is an underlying commonality to these two classic puzzles of vagueness, argue Isa Kooiman & Robert van Rooij What caused humans to think of time as a line, and what did thinking of time that way...
“I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” That’s one student quoted in an article at Politico by Evan Mandery that describes how things have gone at the University of Austin (UATX). UATX was announced in November 2021 as a “fiercely independent” institution of higher education...
Texas A&M University (TAMU) administrators cancelled “Ethics in Public Policy,” a graduate course in the university’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, because they rejected as too vague its professor’s explanation of when and how race and gender issues may come up in the course. First Plato, now ethics....
The Leverhulme Trust has announced the winners of its 2025 Major Research Fellowships, and three philosophy professors are among them. They are: Christoph Kelp (University of Glasgow), awarded £169,830 for Norms of Inquiry Stephen Laurence (University of Sheffield), awarded £196,933 for Beyond Words: Concepts in...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has been experimenting with holding one of its three major conferences entirely online. The organization has now announced that, after the second of these online-only events—the Pacific Division meeting taking place this April—it will go back to holding all three meetings...
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that the winner of its 2025 article prize is Joe Stratmann, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor Stratmann was awarded the prize for his paper, “Autonomy without Compromise: Wolff, Kant, and the Grounds of Moral...
The interim president of Texas A&M, Tommy Williams, has publicly replied to last week’s reports of his university telling a philosophy professor to remove readings by Plato and others from the syllabus of his moral problems course. In a message to faculty posted on the Texas A&M website, President Williams writes: I...
Is there a German word for a feeling that combines admiration, weariness, and a touch of disgust? That word would be handy as we continue to catalog attempts to teach in a world of artificial intelligence, such as this one from professor of technology and business Panos Ipeirotis (NYU). As students are increasingly...
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: ∅ Revised: Identity Over Time by Andre Gallois and Irem Kurtsal....
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