Dale Dorsey (1976-2026) - Daily Nous Dale Dorsey, professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, has died. Professor Dorsey was highly regarded for his writings across a range of subjects in moral philosophy, especially well-being,...

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Congratulations!!

Matthew Shields, Diving for pearls: conceptual abandonment, conceptual engineering, and the limits of thought and language - PhilPapers References to conceptual abandonment are ubiquitous in philosophy. I argue that making a case for abandonment is much harder than philosophers have realized and that this difficulty has striking, broa...

I have a new paper coming out on conceptual abandonment: philpapers.org/rec/SHIDFP-2. Abandonment is a ubiquitous strategy in the history of philosophy – philosophers have advocated getting rid of folk psychological concepts, the concept of harm, the concept of democracy, among many others.

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The invited speakers are Sarah E. McGrath (Princeton), Philip Swenson (William & Mary), Manuel Vargas (UC San Diego), Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame), and Chris Tucker (William & Mary). Details can be found at the link in the comments.

**Second Call for Submissions**

The 10th Theistic Ethics Workshop will take place September 10--12, 2026 at Wake Forest's amazing Graylyn Conference Center!

The deadline for submissions is June 1st, and we cover all expenses. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

My new book, The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World, will be published May 19 and is now available for preordering!

Link in the comment below.

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My new book, The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World, will be published May 19 and is now available for preordering!

Link in the comment below.

@greggdcaruso.bsky.social

Christian Miller: "The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World"

Looking forward to sharing some themes from the forthcoming book...feel free to join!

The Waide Center for Applied Ethics will be hosting Christian Miller on Wednesday, April 8 @ 4:00pm (EST). The event is virtual, via Zoom, and is free and open to all!

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ReImagining Liberty Ends (And What's to Come) After 101 episodes, it's time to move on to new projeects.

I've loved hosting my ReImagining Liberty podcast these last four years, and getting to talk with so many amazing scholars. But it's time to bring it to a close and make way for my next project. Thank you, so much, to everyone who's listened to the show, and to every one of my guests.

Had two great conversations about the new book, The Honesty Crisis, this week. Got to think about some new cases, like AI generated work emails and a stranger pressing you for information about sexual behavior. Discussions of honesty can go in so many different directions! Episodes out in May.

Looking forward to my first ever (Zoom) talk in Pakistan at Habib University.

Song help for tomorrow please for my Virtue and Character class. We are talking about the virtue of generosity, and reading my 2018 piece on generous acts/virtue of generosity.

Anything come to mind for this one? Drake is the most likely option. Supertramp and Natalie Merchant are contenders too.

Tomorrow we switch from the vices to our first virtue, modesty/humility, in my virtue and character class. We will be looking at papers by Julia Driver and Alan Wilson. I need song recommendations for the class. But not on pride. Bonus if students know it.

Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero is a contender.

We are discussing the last of the Capital Vices tomorrow in my Virtue and Character Class...Lust. What song recommendations come to mind to start class?

Not Mayer, has to be recognizable by the students and please keep it PG! Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne is the choice to beat.

Tomorrow is Gluttony day for my Virtue and Character course. Almost certainly going to play the scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Other possibilities are Weird Al, and also Dave Matthews "Too Much." Anything better come to mind?

Really impressive along every dimension. Can't believe how comprehensive it is.

This is an incredible resource! I just shared it on some other sites. Amazing job!

PhilReviews A comprehensive, searchable database of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews across 1,480 academic journals.

A free, searchable index of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews.

Covers 1,200+ journals going back to the 1890s. Filter by subfield, journal, author, reviewer, year, or access type.

Built it because I kept wishing this existed. Now it does.

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Thanks everyone for the song help for Greed. I had to go with "I Want It Now" from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Now it is on to Anger...what songs come to mind?

Bonus if students know it. And has to be better than the classic Carrie Underwood or Alanis Morissette songs.

Just finished my first interview for the new book, The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World. It was with Mike Pesca for The Gist, the longest running daily news podcast. Already I wish I could revise the book! Out in May. @milkepescs.bsky.social

Back from spring break, and time to talk about the vice of greed in my Virtue and Character course. What song do you recommend for opening class? Bonus points for students actually knowing it.

And has to be better than "I Want It Now" from Willy Wonka.

Congratulations to you and your student!

Back from an incredible 4 days in Madrid, where I led 3 seminars on character for the Centre for Character and Human Growth at Villanueva University. Grateful to the seminar participants and my amazing hosts from the Centre. Look for them in the world of character research in the coming years!

Shout out for my friend Cliff Sosis’ new edited collection!

Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny: Mind-Blowing Philosophical Ideas. “Basically, it's an anthology of original material, a collection of the 'craziest' yet defensible philosophical ideas...”

Amazon link: a.co/d/icVm7kG

Final Call - Free Workshop on Character

Excited to lead three seminar meetings on character for this workshop in Madrid on March 9th and 10th. And all the meetings are live-streamed, free, and open to the public! So please feel free to join for as much or as little as you like.

Day three is already coming up tomorrow on capital vices in my Virtue and Character course.
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What song recommendations do you have for *sloth*, either as laziness or more traditionally as being unwilling to do the work needed to maintain a loving relationship with someone?

Patience and Patience Regulation: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Complementary Scales with Alternate Forms Many individuals likely struggle with patience on a daily or even hourly basis, but the empirical study of patience as a personality trait is still emerging. Recent theoretical work articulates pat...

** New Publication **

"Patience and Patience Regulation: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Complementary Scales with Alternate Forms" at the Journal of Personality Assessment, with R. Michael Furr, Christian Waugh, and former students at Wake Forest.

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