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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“Philosophy is a dialectical discipline that thrives in the clash, reconciliation, and creative synthesis of diverse views; and our views are profoundly shaped by our cultural backgrounds and life experiences. Uniformity dulls our...
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...
“In light of the awful brutality by the Iranian government against the uprising in late December 2025, the case for humanitarian intervention in Iran is not obviously implausible…” But what about the actual intervention going on now? It...
A philosopher who has written several books has a question about the publication of translations. [Plate from “Metafisikal Translations” (detail) by Eduardo Paolozzi]Often, translations of books are published by a publisher different...
A philosopher often praised for the accessibility of his writing, when asked about it (he often took part in advice sessions for younger academics), would say that he is not writing for today, but for the future. What he meant was that...
The “Mentorship Index Calculator” is now live. What is it? The Mentorship Index (M-index) measures a scientist’s contribution to mentoring junior scientists. The M-index counts the number of publications for which the scientist served as...
“David Hume was not a Humean.” So says Galen Strawson, regarding the so-called Humean account of causation and what Strawson takes to be Hume’s actual account, in a recent post at his newsletter (a position he has advanced before)....
Items of interest elsewhere… “I really don’t know how it happened, how it is that I came to feel myself equal to tackling the headiest of topics” — Rebecca Newberger Goldstein recalls getting hooked on the “ecstasy” of abstract ideas...
Elizabeth “Vicky” Spelman, professor of philosophy at Smith College, died this past December. Professor Spelman was known for her work in feminist philosophy, and also wrote on philosophical issues related to race, ethics, personhood,...
When over the past 85 years have certain terms and persons been more or less frequently discussed in the philosophical literature? Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) has begun looking into this. In the following guest post, he shares some...
Dagfinn Føllesdal, professor of philosophy emeritus at Stanford University and the University of Oslo, has died. Professor Føllesdal was known for his work in philosophy of language, logic, and on the philosophies of Husserl and Quine....
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...
A new article by Joseph Howlett at Quanta explains how Georg Cantor plagiarized Richard Dedekind’s work on infinity. The case that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind had been made earlier by José Ferreirós (University of Seville), and some...
Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of War, earlier this week ordered Anthropic, the company that makes Claude artificial intelligence products, to allow the Department of War unrestricted use of Claude. Anthropic is resisting, saying that...
In this installment of the occasional academic equipment series, the topic is audio. . Some of you listen to music while you work. Some of you prefer to block out the noise around you. Some of you record yourselves, for lectures, notes,...