What are some practical work suggestions for philosophy PhD students who are seeking academic careers? Hugo Heagren, a student at King’s College London who is currently finishing up his PhD, has compiled a list of “practical tips for philosophy PhD students.” You can check it out here. Below are some of the things on his list: Use a reference manager. Use a password manager. Keep templates for types of emails you’ll send a lot. Keep notes on pretty much everything. It’s easy to writ...| Daily Nous
Links added lately… “Combining economics with philosophy makes for an excellent and productive career” — that’s advice for graduate students from John Broome, but it might also be a summary of this in-depth interview with him about his education and work “The fantasy that you can just wipe away democratic traditions and get something in its place that will solve the problems of democracy is a very dangerous one that Plato fell victim to” — on Plato’s real world attempts to...| Daily Nous
The President of Monmouth College, a private liberal arts college in Illinois, has recently announced that students at the school will no longer be able to major in philosophy, nor in a number of other subjects, starting in Fall 2026. “We stand firm to our commitment as a liberal arts college and embrace the traditions of Monmouth and liberal arts schools,” said President Patricia Draves, as she announced the elimination of major programs in philosophy, history, classics, anthropology, so...| Daily Nous
“I don’t want to be a cop in the classroom. So, it’s… important for students to come to the same conclusion themselves and understand the rationale for this [AI] policy.” Recently, Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, wrote a long essay for his students on the importance of explaining to why artificial intelligence (AI) is prohibited in his courses. He also shared it on his new Substack site with the thought that it could be of use to other instructors ...| Daily Nous
Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP) is a new, online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. The journal’s focus is “leading-edge research relating to new narratives in any period in the history of philosophy [and] discussion of and scholarship on diverse, underrepresented, and non-canonical approaches, themes, and figures in a wide variety of world philosophical traditions.” The editors write: Our goal is to provide a platform for philosophical research that c...| Daily Nous
Philosophers Johan Gustafsson and Thomas Ward have been hired by the University of Texas at Austin. Johan Gustafsson was most recently senior research fellow at the University of York. He joins the UT Austin Department of Philosophy this fall as full professor. His research covers a range of topics in moral and political philosophy, and he is the author of Money-Pump Arguments (2022), among many other works. You can learn more about his writings at here and here. Thomas Ward was previously as...| Daily Nous
The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society is the recipient of a $3.2 million award. The funds, from the John Templeton Foundation, will “establish an international grant initiative to support PPE research projects, host workshops for the award winners, and build an expansive catalog of research and teaching resources,” the PPE Society announced. The grant initiative “will primarily offer funding for teams of PPE scholars working together to address areas of pressing importance th...| Daily Nous
The Stanford Daily, Stanford University’s independently run student newspaper, and two of its student staff, are suing Marco Rubio, in his capacity as Secretary of State, and Kristi Noem, in her capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security, for violating their First Amendment rights. . The suit argues that the administration’s reliance on the Immigration and Nationality Act to censor and punish lawfully present noncitizens is unconstitutional. From the suit: Secretary of State Marco Rubio...| Daily Nous
“We do not publish any work advancing views that are clearly contrary to the established teachings of the Catholic Church.” That’s in the submission guidelines for the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (NCBQ). Also in those submission guidelines: The NCBQ seeks to foster intellectual inquiry on moral issues by publishing articles that address the ethical, philosophical, theological, and clinical questions raised by the rapid pace of modern medical and technological progress. Inspi...| Daily Nous
"Over the last decade, interest in ethical issues related to computing, especially concerning artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, has skyrocketed." Why should philosophers---as teachers, as researchers, as members and administrators of philosophy departments---care about this? And what should they do in response to it? The following guest post is by members of the Value| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Recent added links... “The canoe was under attack, the crocodile in full pursuit!” -- read about why philosopher Val Plumwood's canoe is part of the collection at the National Museum of Australia (via Andrew Mills) “Much of my career has been devoted to teaching and writing about Aristotle’s Ethics, but it was not love at first| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Avery Kolers, Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at the University of Louisville, will be moving to the University of Tennessee Department of Philosophy, where he will be Professor and Department Chair. Professor Kolers works in social and political philosophy and ethics. He is the author of A Moral Theory of Solidarity (2016) and Land, Conflict, and Justice: A| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the recipients of its latest grants, and several philosophers are among them. Readers may recall that in April of this year, many NEH grants were cancelled by Donald Trump's administration, and grantees and the public were told that the funds they had won were going to| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"We, the undersigned members of the APA and the wider philosophical community, write to express our dismay and deep disappointment regarding the APA's conspicuous silence concerning the genocide unfolding in Palestine." That is the opening sentence from a new petition calling for the American Philosophical Association to "fulfill its moral obligation" to: Unequivocally condemn the| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
A pair of philosophers have created a program through which people can volunteer to team-teach online courses at Ukrainian universities. The European Initiative for Online Tandem Courses for Ukrainian Universities launched in September of last year. It arranges for teams of two European university lecturers from two different countries to offer philosophy seminars via a virtual| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"My experiences have led me to believe that one of the best things that men in a professional field can do for feminism is to learn to take sexual and romantic rejection well." That's one of the observations of a philosopher, going by the pseudonym "Alex Rails", in the following guest post on issues at| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Christopher Rowe, emeritus professor of classics at Durham University and well-known scholar of ancient philosophy, has died. Professor Rowe was an influential philosopher, classicist, translator, and textual editor of Aristotle and Plato. He is the author of Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing, among many other works, which you can learn more about here.| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decision." Wiley had attempted to keep the journal going without an academic editorial team in place, but those efforts have now come to an end. The| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Here’s the (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. (If we’ve missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: The Free Rider Problem by Garrett Cullity. Personal Identity and Ethics by Annette Dufner. Revised: Giambattista della| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
