"We ought to ask ourselves, how did Frege’s claim to expertise in the matter of thinking fare, at that crucial moment when Germany most needed its intellectuals to rise to the defense of the endangered democratic ideals of civic equality, popular sovereignty and international solidarity? Like Heidegger, Schmitt and many others, Frege failed this test, welcoming| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The Philosophy Journal Insight Project, which collects and organizes information about philosophy journals, has grown a bit since we first reported on it last year and is asking journals to submit data via a new "operations survey". In the following guest post, Sam Andrews, a recent philosophy PhD from the University of Birmingham who created and directs| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) is launching a new teaching mentorship program designed for philosophers teaching in small philosophy departments. A small department, for the purposes of this AAPT program, is either a philosophy department with three or fewer faculty in it, or a multidisciplinary department with three or fewer philosophers in it.| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"If individual vices can be virtuous from the perspective of a group, is the inverse also true? Does this mean that virtues, in some cases, can be vices in the context of group behavior?" That's the subject taken up by Mandi Astola (Delft), Steven Bland (Huron), and Mark Alfano (Macquarie) in the following guest post. The| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"In thinking about trolley problems, to what extent have you put yourself in the shoes of the person at the switch... and to what extent have you put yourself into the shoes of those tied to the tracks?" In the following guest post, Avram Hiller, associate professor of philosophy at Portland State University, notes the| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"The mistake involves grouping together into an all-or-nothing package entire sets of claims whose epistemological credentials are quite varied. It also often involves collapsing epistemic and moral concerns." In the following guest post, Eric Winsberg, Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida and British Academy Global Professor of History and Philosophy of Science| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"Current dissatisfaction with peer review is such an opportunity for change, so we call for taking advantage of this opportunity as fully as we can. We build our recommendations on the idea that mutual critical engagement is a skill developed through ongoing practice and actual engagement with each other’s ideas." In the following guest post,| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"A kind of science-envy is often visible in much of what analytic philosophers have had to say about the question of evidence in ethics... In some cases, however, what deprives us of the truth is not scientism, but other forms of prejudice." In the following guest post, Sophie Grace Chappell, Professor of Philosophy at The Open| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The Philosophy Journal Insight Project (PJIP) "aims to provide philosophy researchers with practical insights on potential venues for publication." Its main offering is a spreadsheet that provides information about journals' subject matter, word limits, type of peer review, open access status, rankings, impact information, acceptance rates, review times, reviewing quality, and so on. Put together| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"What might an ‘ecology’ of work-in-progress reading groups look like?" In the following guest post, Georgi Gardiner (Tulane), who has spent some time thinking about novel forms of academic get-togethers (for example), explores the idea of "non-circular work in progress groups". You can check out some of her other thoughts on the art of academic| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"In this post, I want to encourage a conversation about active steps that we---all of us who love, teach, and write philosophy---might take to help philosophy’s future." There are many concerns about the future of philosophy in higher education. In the following guest post, Alex Guerrero, professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, puts forward two| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession