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.
Latest Posts
What’s going on elsewhere… “Aristotle told us there were five senses. But he also told us the world was made up of five elements and we no longer believe that” — Barry Smith on how we may have over 20 different senses and how they are...
To what extent should theoretical approaches to understanding the world offered up by the humanities be sensitive to empirical evidence? And how might the humanities be different if its scholars took the demands of evidence more...
Are all happy classrooms alike? Probably not. But perhaps there’s some qualities common to many of them. In the following guest post, Daniel Story, assistant professor of philosophy at California Polytechnic State University, suggests...
Malcolm Budd, emeritus professor of philosophy at University College London, has died. Professor Budd was especially well-known for his work in the philosophy of art and music and on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, but also had interests...
Michelle Beer, professor of philosophy at Florida International University, has died. Professor Beer taught at FIU from 1982 until her retirement in December 2025. A specialist in metaphysics and the philosophy of science, she was...
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...
With measures borrowed from history’s totalitarian regimes, political leaders in Florida are taking unprecedented steps to indoctrinate students and prevent them from learning about the world in ways that may lead them to question the...
Links to check out… “The greatest risk posed by automation in higher education is not simply the replacement of particular tasks by machines, but the erosion of the broader ecosystem of practice that has long sustained teaching, research...
Philosophy is a “fact-based discipline” that makes progress, says Bryan Frances, and to prove it he offers up “200 straightforward facts directly about philosophical matters that virtually all philosophers know and non-philosophers don’t...
Last week I posted about PhilLit, a new AI research tool for philosophers that finds and summarizes philosophical writing. The post generated a lot of comments, which prompted one reader to run a little experiment. The experiment...
Matt Zwolinski (University of San Diego) says he has long thought it would be useful to have a website in which you could type in the name of a book and be shown all the different reviews of it that have been published. Tired of waiting,...
The pursuit of knowledge generates disagreement, including disagreement about how to pursue knowledge. This has implications for current debates of scholarship and activism and complaints about some academics being activists. Enzo Rossi...
Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. Bits of Grammarly screenshots (clipped from Barker’s video) That may have once been true, but...
I’ve been asked to put up a post about what goes under the “publications” heading on a cv, but I thought we could expand the discussion to include other bits of cv-related advice for job applicants. Here’s the main thing I was asked to...
Latest links… “Each step made sense within its own intellectual climate, yet the cumulative effect was to impose on Aristotle a conception of tragedy he would scarcely have recognized” — Jonathan Bate on the history of the “tragic flaw”...