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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L i n k s . . . “It asks us to dig into ourselves, and cultivate emotions of love and reciprocity” — Martha Nussbaum discusses opera’s relevance to political freedom, on WNYC Sometimes you learn that you actually have no duty to perform...
Wilbur Dyre Hart III, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, has died. Professor Hart, known to all as Bill, worked in philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and...
Elizabeth Hannon, deputy editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS), has a query about other philosophy journals. She says, “What I’d like to know is how much time journals give referees to return their reports.”...
Faculty and Students at Ghent University are objecting to the university’s recent hiring of philosopher Nathan Cofnas. Readers may recall Cofnas as the person who wrote on his blog that “In a meritocracy… Black people would disappear...
To what extent has the development of AI over the past several years led to non-academic work for academically-trained philosophers? [Refik Anadol, “Unsupervised – Machine Hallucinations” (detail)]AI raises questions across various...
Philosophers of the past 100 years or so have tended to reach “peak influence” between their early 50s and late 60s, according to a new analysis from Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside). To determine this, Professor Schwitzgebel looked at...
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...
Jürgen Habermas, well-known for his influential work in political philosophy and social theory, has died. Professor Habermas wrote extensively on critical social theory, and is often seen as a figure through which the critical theory of...
Should academics be more conservative? [Allan D’Arcangelo, “Side View Mirror” (detail)]One way to characterize conservatism is as an appreciation of enduring institutions and widespread social practices, flawed as they may be—and which...
The latest links… “It is puzzling to many why enthusiasts of sports get so emotionally caught up and absorbed in the outcome of games in spite of the fact that those outcomes rarely if ever have any appreciable bearing on their ordinary...
Susan Haack, professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami, has died. Professor Haack was well-known for her work in philosophy of logic, epistemology, pragmatism, and philosophy of law. She is the author of Deviant Logic,...
The editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) have announced the winner of the 2025 Popper Prize. The Popper Prize is awarded annually for the best article appearing in the British Journal for the Philosophy of...
In its 2023 and 2025 surveys, Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (APDA) asked current PhD students to rate their satisfaction with their financial situation. [collage by Mark Wagner]In a post at the APDA site, co-director Kino Zhao...
Conferences provide valuable opportunities to academics and can influence disciplinary agendas. But scholars have unequal access to conferences, often owing to where such conferences are held and the availability of funding. As Kritika...
The University of Leipzig is launching a new, tuition-free English-language Master of Arts program in philosophy. Professor Kristina Musholt writes that it is a two-year program “with a diverse range of courses that create the conditions...