A total solar eclipse will be taking place on April 8th. What, if anything, does this have to do with philosophy? Laura Papish, a philosopher at George Washington University, is hoping Daily Nous...
https://dailynous.com/2024/03/26/philosophical-readings-related-to-the-eclipse/
You know that famous last line of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”? That’s not quite what he said, according to Dami...
“I sincerely believe that to save the humanities, within which I include philosophy, we are going to have to reconceive what we do as at least in part a creative endeavor—literary, artistic, ...
“There are two kinds of philosophers: swallows and moles.” The swallow and the mole are offered up by Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) in a recent review of The Weirdness of the World by Eric S...
https://dailynous.com/2024/01/29/swallows-moles-and-other-animal-philosopher-typologies/
The year is coming to a close, and so it’s a good time for year-end lists, and Daily Nous is a good place for a year-end list about good philosophy. I’m not asking you about “the best” ne...
https://dailynous.com/2023/12/22/philosophy-you-liked-published-in-2023/
“On the surface it is deeply puzzling that conservatism has disappeared from professional philosophy.” So writes Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) in a post at Digressions & Impressions. He explain...
https://dailynous.com/2023/12/15/conservatism-in-political-philosophy/
The Los Angeles Review of Books has just concluded publishing a series of articles on the importance of philosophy in “times like these”. What are “times like these”? The editor of the s...
https://dailynous.com/2023/12/12/philosophys-importance-in-times-like-these/
Why did a particular philosophical view emerge or flourish at a particular time? Why did another fall into disfavor? Why are philosophers today thinking and writing about the particular questions...
https://dailynous.com/2023/12/01/externalist-explanations-of-philosophy/
On what we can call the answers model of philosophy, the primary aim of philosophy is to learn philosophical truths, and a primary form of philosophical progress is learning true answers to “t...
https://dailynous.com/2023/11/17/which-areas-philosophy-faster-progress/
If I’m remembering correctly, T.M. Scanlon recounts a story in which a person sitting next to him on a plane asks him what he does for a living. Scanlon admits he is a philosopher, and the fe...
https://dailynous.com/2023/11/16/what-are-some-of-your-sayings/
Are you thinking about writing about the state of philosophy today? If so, please keep in mind the following facts: Philosophy Is Not In Charge of Itself Philosophy at its most influential is sti...
“What began to feel frustrating instead was a growing sense of the marginal place of philosophy more generally in UK culture… it is arguable that philosophy has drifted away, partly due to it...
https://dailynous.com/2023/10/26/philosophy-science-and-religion/
“What are the practices that sustain our faith in ourselves as the agents of our thinking?” That may sound like an odd question, but Anil Gomes (Oxford) explains why he thinks it’s worth as...
https://dailynous.com/2023/10/12/philosophy-as-sustaining-faith-in-our-cognitive-agency/
“I view the philosophical essay as an art form whose medium is ideas.” That’s George Sher (Rice University), writing in the current issue of Philosophy Now about the point of writing philos...
I’m curious about what academic philosophers take to be the point of academic philosophy. Just a little question, that’s all. In a future post, I’m going to ask a version of that question i...
Last week, Harvey Lederman (UT Austin) delivered some remarks at Academia Sinica on what he referred to as “the path forward for Chinese philosophy.” Below is a brief excerpt. It will likely ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/09/26/letting-different-kinds-of-philosophy/
In a recent post at The Splintered Mind, Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) asks whether it matters “if ethicists walk the walk.” The thought he’s investigating is this: “Of course it’s ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/09/08/immoral-moral-philosophers/
“The linguistic turn is over. We partied hard, got hungover, and now we’re trying to live as respectable adults… Today, a new revolution is brewing. Analytic philosophy is in the midst of ...
“I abandoned classics for philosophy in large part because that was where the refuters were. Now people can’t stop telling me I am wrong.” In the following guest post, Agnes Callard, associ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/08/01/desperate-honesty-guest-post/
“Starting around 2010, however, there was a striking change, surprising to someone trained in the 1980s. Some philosophy professors began to write a lot more personally; they tried to show how ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/07/31/personal-practical-public-philosophy/
Glial cell? “Commonly described as the ‘glue’ that holds the nervous system together, they’re better thought of as infrastructure, the ductwork and insulation that give heft to comparativ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/07/11/philosophy-as-glial-cell-guest-post/
Many of you could probably list the names of 50+ academic philosophy journals off the top of your head. Yet there are a great many more philosophy journals than the ones we’ve all heard of, and...
https://dailynous.com/2023/05/05/favorite-articles-off-the-beaten-path/
“There is something philistine in his demand that philosophy always answer to practical needs.” That’s Kieran Setiya (MIT), reviewing What’s the Use of Philosophy? by Philip Kitcher (Col...
https://dailynous.com/2023/04/28/the-practicality-of-philosophy/
“What are the literary forms philosophy can come in? Judging by contemporary works it seems the best way to express our ideas is in 8000-word journal articles, monographs, the occasional op-ed....
https://dailynous.com/2023/04/18/various-literary-forms-of-philosophy/
In some domains, “overall quality depends on how good the worst stuff is,” while in others, “overall quality depends on how good the best stuff is, and the bad stuff barely matters.” ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/04/17/whats-so-bad-about-bad-philosophy/
An interview project “devoted to exploring the philosophical richness of lesser-studied languages from across the world” has published four interviews so far, with more on the way. The projec...
https://dailynous.com/2023/04/04/philosophy-in-lesser-studied-languages/
Here’s one way of thinking about progress in philosophy. Having determined that progress in philosophy has been too slow, the leaders of the Galactic Philosophy Federation (GPF) take on the mis...
https://dailynous.com/2023/03/29/better-philosophy-through-time-travel/
“I know a lot of people on twitter and social media complain about the current state of philosophy but I tend to be an optimist.” That’s Gregg Caruso, professor of philosophy at SUNY Cornin...