Three Philosophers Among New Guggenheim Fellows - Daily Nous The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its new class of fellows, and three philosophers are among them. They are: Alan Baker (Swarthmore College) Kate Manne (Cornell University) G...

The new class of Guggenheim Fellows has been announced, and a few philosophers were selected for it...

New AI Model Has a Taste for Philosophy - Daily Nous The AI firm Anthropic recently shared a detailed description of the various capabilities and safety risks of Claude Mythos Preview, a new AI model (Anthropic's "most capable frontier model to date"). ...

A new AI reports preferring (?) multi-disciplinary and philosophically engaging tasks over more "useful" ones. And yes it put "useful" in scare quotes.

Faculty on the move…

The Philosophy of Invading a Beagle Breeding Facility - Daily Nous This week, at least two philosophers will risk arrest by taking part in the largest-ever open rescue in the history of animal activism. Ridglan Farms, located in Wisconsin, is, according to David Kill...

This week, at least two philosophers will risk arrest by taking part in the largest-ever open rescue in the history of animal activism. Is this civil disobedience? Is it a good idea?

Mini-Heap - Daily Nous Recent links... Previously unknown poems by Iris Murdoch have been discovered and will be read at an upcoming festival -- including "a very moving love poem" about Elizabeth Anscombe “The suspicion th...

When it's morally wrong to support a just war. The distance b/w the philosophy & practice of econ. When politics is like a game, beware the "Gamer's Dilemma". "New" poems by Iris Murdoch. An AI writes about how to get AIs not to cause harm. Interviews w/ Felipe De Brigard & Andrew Lister...

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Daily Nous 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. (...

New reviews of philosophy books, new and updated entries at online philosophy resources, new philosophy podcast episodes...

Hi Nat — this looks cool. I’ll check it out over the weekend

Update: Caravello has been acquitted

The philosopher who was told by Texas A&M administrators to remove a text by Plato from his course is the second philosopher this term to decide to leave the university owing to its academic freedom failures. dailynous.com/2026/04/09/p...

This was a fun exercise. For the non-philosophers, here's a thread briefly describing the ridiculous views that we philosophers are pretty sure we could find seven experts to agree to.

If you read one of them and think "What?!? I must be misunderstanding" you probably aren't.

Some Advice about Applying for Interdisciplinary Humanities Fellowships and Grants - Daily Nous The National Humanities Center (NHC) recently announced its fellows for the 2026-27 academic year, and two philosophers are among them. They are S.M. Love (Georgia State University) for the project, "...

Why does it seem like philosophy is underrepresented among disciplines when it comes to interdisciplinary or general humanities fellowships and grants? For one thing, not as as many philosophers apply. But that's not the whole story...

2026 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics Winners Announced - Daily Nous The Marc Sanders Foundation has announced that its 2026 Prize in Metaphysics has been awarded to Ezra Rubenstein and Verónica Gómez-Sánchez (both of UC Berkeley). They won the prize for their paper, "...

The winners of the 2026 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics are...

Trial Starts Today for Philosophy Lecturer Who Tossed Away Tear Gas Canister Thrown by ICE - Daily Nous The trial of Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, begins today. The trial concerns his actions at a protest during a Federal Immigration and Cus...

The trial of a philosophy lecturer who tossed away a tear gas canister thrown at him and other protestors by ICE begins today. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Publishing, Teaching, and the Philosophy Job Market (guest post) - Daily Nous How many publications do early career job applicants in academic philosophy have? How many courses have they taught? How have the answers to these questions changed over the past decade? These are som...

How many publications do early career job applicants in academic philosophy have? How many courses have they taught? How have the answers to these questions changed over the past decade? These and related questions answered...

Top University in Iran Bombed - Daily Nous Early this morning, Sharif University of Technology, Iran’s leading technical university, was bombed. As of the writing of this post, it was unclear whether the bombing was carried out by the United S...

A top university in Iran was bombed earlier today. The university "housed a Department of Philosophy of Science, an extraordinary effort to [build a] bridge between philosophy, science, and technology"

New Writings by Empedocles Discovered - Daily Nous The ideas of 5th Century BCE philosopher Empedocles have reached us only through paraphrases or fragmentary quotes of his work by later authors---until now. Last month, researchers announced they had ...

Finally: Empedocles, in his own words...

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Daily Nous 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. (...

New reviews of philosophy books, new and updated entries at online philosophy resources, new philosophy podcast episodes...

Mini-Heap - Daily Nous Items of interest elsewhere... A survey of Kant’s relationships with women, including the “catastrophically underrated” Caroline von Keyserlingk -- Daniel Andreas dishes on Kant's love life. Don't mis...

Kant: ladies man. Advice for waitlisted grad students. Whether we'll understand science by AIs. Leibniz & Peter the Great. New documentary on Thoreau. Williams & Nietzsche. Using AI to transcribe old texts...

Philosophy: More Empirical Than Ever - Daily Nous "In the early 1970s, fewer than 10% of articles cited any empirical sources. However, by the 2020s, this grew to over 50%." That finding is from a new study by Michael Prinzing (Wake Forest University...

Philosophy: more empirical than ever

Trans-Exclusionary Philosopher Seeks to Exclude Trans Philosopher - Daily Nous Jonathan Pike, a professor of philosophy at Open University who defends trans-exclusionary (aka "gender critical") views has submitted a formal complaint about the appointment of his colleague, profes...

Sometimes the headlines write themselves.

What Is a Practical Joke? - Daily Nous It's April Fools Day---a day of jokey trickery---of practical jokes. Unlike in year's past (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022...) I have no jokey post. Depending on how you feel about that I'd like to say either...

What is a practical joke, anyway?

What Is a Practical Joke? - Daily Nous It's April Fools Day---a day of jokey trickery---of practical jokes. Unlike in year's past (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022...) I have no jokey post. Depending on how you feel about that I'd like to say either...

What is a practical joke, anyway?

QS 2026 “World University Rankings” in Philosophy - Daily Nous The 2026 “QS World University Rankings” have been published. These contain rankings by subject matter, including philosophy. The rankings are conducted by the London-based education data firm Quacquar...

The QS ranking of universities at which to study philosophy has been released (though some results and methodological concerns may leave you wondering if "QS" stands for "questionable statistics")

Radzik from Texas A&M to Binghamton - Daily Nous Linda Radzik, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Binghamton University (SUNY). Radzik works mainly in ethics and philosophy of law, writing about "moral issues that ari...

Faculty on the move...

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Daily Nous 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. (...

Updates at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new philosophy podcast episodes, and more...

Lots More Leibniz - Daily Nous 2000 pages of Leibniz, much of it previously untranslated or unpublished, will be published next month. They'll appear in a new three-volume edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers (1677–1686), edit...

GottfriedL: "I know it's been a minute but I'm happy to announce a few new pieces. Felt like it took 300 years to get these published but here they are..."

Mini-Heap - Daily Nous Recent additions to the Heap of Links... Fallacies as “memetic mimicry” -- Steven Hales borrows from nature to describe fallacies and their significance “How do we balance the creativity needed to dis...

Why fallacies are like leaf-tailed geckos. Disarming the pacifist dilemma. Complicated feelings about academia. The limits of formalization. Institutional neutrality & pride flags. A critique of the APA's experiment with virtual meetings. The value of species-being...

Texas State Fires Philosophy Professor Over Off-Campus Talk on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict - Daily Nous Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told him he would h...

Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...

The Philosophy Curricula in Mid-20th Century UK Universities - Daily Nous Who and what was covered in philosophy courses at UK universities in the 1950s and 1960s? . That question comes from Brice Ezell, an independent scholar working on a book "about Tom Stoppard's dramati...

An author writing about Tom Stoppard and philosophy is seeking information about the teaching of philosophy in the mid-20th century at UK universities.