"Conferences... serve important institutional functions. They shape disciplinary agendas, determine which questions and approaches gain visibility, and influence whose work is taken up, cited, and taught." Who should get to go to them? Where should they take place?
"Our views are profoundly shaped by our cultural backgrounds and life experiences. Uniformity dulls our collective philosophical thinking. A fair and flourishing discipline would treasure rather than repel those who have historically been excluded."
The weekly update on new philosophy book reviews, new open access books, new & revised entries at online philosophy resources, new episodes of philosophy podcasts...
“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?
Academics, how much should your publisher charge another for the rights to translate your book? How is that licensing fee determined?
An interesting thread on this morning’s “Influential Ideas in an AI Era” post at Daily Nous.
Academic mentorship is important. To encourage it, it could be useful to be able to keep track of it. Here's one way, more suited for the sciences than philosophy, but it's something...
Hume was not a Humean (says Galen Strawson). For which other philosophers is it true that "[philosopher] is not a [philosopher]-ian"?
Complicity & Epstein. A game-like crash course on the humanities. Taking philosophy to the street. Churchland & AI. Knowledge & craft in poetry. The ecstasy of abstract ideas. Philosophical computer-scientist Joe Halpern...
A look at some trends in how much certain terms or persons have been discussed in philosophy over the past 85 years, from @eschwitz.bsky.social...
New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new philosophy podcast episodes, and more...
Cantor "carefully erased every trace of his collaborator’s contribution, including stray uses of terms that anyone in the know would recognize as Dedekind’s"
"In a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values." The conflict between Anthropic & the US Dept of War raises issues in political philosophy, business ethics, philosophy of war, philosophy of technology...
How do you listen to music while working? How do you get the quiet you need while working? These and other work-related audio-equipment questions...
"Five senses" is an outdated understanding human perception. What it means to be rational. Going against the moral grain. Higher ed as if it were set up for lifelong learning. The problem with fallacies. A philosophy crossword. New political & social philosophy podcast...
“Philosophers have much to contribute… by engaging in the messiness of the real world” rather than succumbing to "humanities-based academic lethargy". Here's one example.
Philosophy "connects us in deep intellectual ways to... other human beings". What if we taught it with the aim of fostering that connection? How could we do so? Here's one way...
Philosophy "connects us in deep intellectual ways to... other human beings". What if we taught it with the aim of fostering that connection? How could we do so? Here's one way...
New philosophy book reviews, new philosophy podcast episodes, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources...
This past week at DN:
- New kind of critical thinking course
- 200 philosophy facts
- Summer philosophy programs
- Beyond ‘activism v. scholarship’
- Grammarly: much worse than you thought
- CV do’s & don’ts
- New index of philosophy book reviews
- Thought-policing in Florida
…& more
dailynous.com
In sociology courses at Florida’s public colleges, classroom discussions of institutions that “oppress persons of color” and several other topics are now forbidden by the government.
Implicit social science in the humanities. When a student raises scripture in philosophy class. The order of the universe (& alphabets). Analytic philosophy generator. Korsgaard's Dewey lecture. The creative destruction of science & philosophy. AI & the ecosystem of learning.
In an attempt to demonstrate that philosophy is a "fact-based" discipline that makes progress, a philosopher offers up “200 straightforward facts directly about philosophical matters that virtually all philosophers know and non-philosophers don’t know.”
"...on Daily Nous, AI isn’t just 'new infrastructure'; it’s already a contested symbol tied to authorship, legitimacy, disciplinary self-image, and the fear that the activity philosophers most prize... is being hollowed out."
A philosopher used Claude Code to build a book review search for philosophy books. Just type in the title and you'll get a list of reviews of it published in academic journals. It's a work in progress, but you can try it out...
