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
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 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
The latest links... A philosophy-themed Wordle game -- "Cogitordle" was created by philosopher Ian Schnee “The debates from the 60s to the 90s might have gone quite differently if we had known the results of these experiments” -- David Strohmaier on how new technologies can inform our understanding of learning and language Heavenly, the band of retired| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... How does an LLM think? How does it represent concepts? -- "the first ever detailed look inside a modern, production-grade large language model" An historian of science thinks social psychology’s replication crisis is owed to its reliance on a causal model that “eliminates the role of the person” -- "This diagnosis is, in our eyes,| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
New links... “Any sign of struggle on my part seemed to be taken as evidence that, perhaps, I was not cut out for intellectual life and did not care enough about philosophy” -- an interview with Vanessa Wills King Lawrence the Lion and Maple the Meerkat navigate tricky philosophical questions in a new BBC series for| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... “By seeing knowledge as mere facts to be distilled without the struggle that leads to the ecstasy of enlightenment, my students are depriving themselves of one of the most profound delights of humanity” -- Steven Gimbel on the thinker's high Are recent episodes of “wild” scientific speculation the product of “badly digested versions of| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... A philosophy professor’s book on philosophy and culture is culled from his 18 years of blogging about it -- check out Jason Read's Unemployed Negativity “The manner in which Early Modern philosophers engaged with the most pressing moral issue of their era: the Transatlantic slave trade” -- the topic of a special issue of the| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
"What philosophy journal article, published less than ten years ago, has the most citations in philosophy journals?" . That's the question taken up by Brian Weatherson (Michigan) in a piece posted at his site. He adds: That’s a pretty good operationalisation of the question, what current philosophy work are philosophers talking about the most. It| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Recent additions to the Heap of Links... The “political character” of algorithmic decision-making -- at the intersection of political theory, business ethics, and technology 219 letters between Heidegger and Gadamer written between 1922 and 1976 have been published -- here's a brief interview with one of the collection's editors, Jean Grondin Which publisher’s line of great books| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Links of interest to people interested in philosophy... Mary the color scientist and her friends -- The Philosophical Quarterly puts Jackson's original article and 8 others it has published about it over the years in an open-access collection The obstacle course of knowledge -- a list of things about us and the world that help explain why| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The first mini-heap of 2025... You “may be wondering how I’m going to wiggle out of the seeming exhaustion of logical space presented by ‘either it is the case that qualia exist or it is not the case that qualia exist.’ Just watch me now.” -- Pete Mandik's qualia quietism “The core elements of community—relationships, service,| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
New links... “In my (more) pretentious days, I gave epigraphs to academic articles” -- Kieran Setiya on "front matter" “Philosophy: a safe space for the unfettered operation of mind” -- Agnes Callard on lessons learned from Musil's "The Man Without Qualities" The mystery of G.A. Cohen’s position on free will and moral responsibility -- Ben Burgis is on| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The Philosophers Against Malaria Fundraising Competition has come to a close. Which philosophy department won? We'll get to that. But first: the competition raised $21,500! According to Malte Hendrickx (Michigan), who organized the fundraiser, that's enough for around 10,500 anti-mosquito bednets. And now to the results. Mr. Hendrickx writes: The University of Delaware has come| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Hello philosofriends! I know some of you are doing great — others, not so great. But I hope all of you are able to find at least a little beauty in the world around you this season — maybe a lot — and treasure it. Happy Holidays, Justin| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If you notice something missing from the weekly update, let us know. Thanks.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Alexander Crummell by Stephen Thompson. Episteme and Techne by Richard Parry. Medieval Philosophy by John Marenbon. The| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The 21st Century Monads have released a new album, The World Soul. The 21st Century Monads are a band that makes music about philosophy. Its current are philosophers Kris McDaniel (Notre Dame), Carrie Jenkins (British Columbia), Ben Bradley (Syracuse), and Laura Callahan (Notre Dame). McDaniel wrote most of the parts for The World Soul and played| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Recent links... Discussion welcome. What happened in math and the sciences in 2024? -- year-end reviews at Quanta We need to be asking more about AI tools than whether they “undermine the narrow policies and objectives of institutions of higher learning” -- Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin at Times Higher Ed The Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit -- including, among other things,| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Santiago Amaya, currently associate professor of philosophy at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, has accepted an offer from Rice University, where he will be associate professor of philosophy (with tenure). Professor Amaya works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophy of cognitive science, and moral psychology. You can learn more about his work| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... Discussion welcome. “The story of the drive to philosophize… with the added twist that the philosopher should become reflexively aware of the structure of this drivenness” -- Aaron Schuster on Kafka's "Investigations of a Dog" “How quickly things can tip and with very little warning” -- Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe University Frankfurt) shares his experiences with| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy (NEWLAMP) will be taking place once again this summer. NEWLAMP is an annual workshop aimed at helping professors integrate under-represented philosophical traditions into their syllabi. The 2025 workshop will focus on African social and political philosophy, with an emphasis on work produced in Africa (rather than in| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Just a reminder that your chance for a free, no-catch, no-strings-attached holiday gift of your choosing from the Daily Nous Gift Guide Giveaway will soon be gone. Details are here. In order to go ahead with this, there needs to be at least fifty gift suggestions from fifty different folks. Currently there are only around| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Recent additions to the Heap of Links... Discussion welcome. “This is concrete evidence that brain microbiomes do exist in vertebrates… And so the idea that humans have a brain microbiome is not outlandish” -- huge if true: "this would suggest an extra layer of neurological regulation that we didn’t know existed" “Telling your child that Santa| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... Discussion welcome. “We can’t understand the human mind if we don’t understand the role mental imagery plays in… diverse mental phenomena” -- The Junkyard is hosting a book symposium on Bence Nanay's "Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience" “Our idea was to train the next generation of experts, rather than trying to change the mindset| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Maybe you're among those who are hoping for drastic changes to the practices and norms of reviewing manuscripts for publication in philosophy journals. - But if you thought it took too long for that journal to get back to you with a decision on your last paper, well, that was nothing compared to how long| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Latest links... Discussion welcome. Fuck -- a timely history of the word “The ability to write a genome from scratch would unlock greater creativity in designing a desired genome… and producing new kinds of organisms that do things that nature cannot” -- an interview about artificial life with synthetic biologist Yizhi “Patrick” Cai (Manchester) “People end up| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession