Milagros Peña, president of Purchase College, State University of New York, authorized campus and local police to forcibly break up what appears to be a peaceful gathering of student protestors,...
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/06/administration-sets-police-on-peaceful-student-protestors/
“We call for the reversal of student suspensions and for departments to refuse to comply with university investigations or sanctions of students and employees participating in non-violent polit...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/29/columbia-philosophy-grad-students-condemn-campus-arrests/
“We believe that the ability to protest nonviolently is essential to our democracy and a basic human right that must be respected and protected.” Faculty across the University of California s...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/29/university-of-california-faculty-statement-on-protests/
This post is for discussion of the ongoing campus protests against Israel’s response to the October 7th, 2023 attack on it by Hamas, and in support of the Palestinians. More than 34,000 Palesti...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/25/campus-protests-about-israel-palestinians/
In February, a judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit known as American Philosophical Association et al. v. District of Columbia. The lawsuit was started in 2017 by the...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/08/apa-led-class-action-lawsuit-prevails/
Shadi “Soph” Heidarifar is a doctoral student and teaching assistant in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Florida. She’s also suing the US Citizenship and Immigration Servic...
https://dailynous.com/2024/03/27/florida-philosophy-grad-student-seeks-legal-aid-for-asylum-case/
The Leverhulme Trust, a philanthropy in London which provides grants and fellowships to scholars across a range of disciplines, has launched an investigation of one of its early career fellows w...
“Epicureanism says hi, with a text full of music, food, senses, and pleasure!” That’s what one scholar has to say about a recently digitally decoded text of an unopenable, carbonized ancie...
https://dailynous.com/2024/02/06/further-progress-on-vesuvius-scrolls/
Eleven people were killed and approximately 30 more injured in a shooting that took place at Charles University in Prague, in the building that houses the university’s Department of Philosophy....
https://dailynous.com/2023/12/21/shooting-in-philosophy-building-at-charles-university-in-prague/
Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a permanent visiting position at the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine. Beginning in the summer of 2024, he will be in r...
“We implore you to call for an immediate cessation to Israel’s morally disastrous attack on Gaza, and for Israel to allow the free passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza, in addition to contin...
Recent philosophy-related news.* 1. The Public Philosophy Network (PPN) has announced the inaugural winners of two of its awards: The winner of the 2023 PPN Leadership Award is Nancy McHugh, F...
Recent philosophy-related news.* 1. Michela Massimi (Edinburgh) is the winner of the 2023 Lakatos Award for her book, Perspectival Realism (OUP, 2022). The Lakatos Award is given annually by the...
Recent philosophy-related news.* 1. A new journal, Passion: the Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, has just published its inaugural issue. The journal is a p...
“Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the U.S. Supreme Court declared in a ruling today. The New York Times reports: ...
Three people were hospitalized following a knife attack that took place this afternoon in a University of Waterloo philosophy course. The suspect was arrested. No fatalities have been reported. T...
https://dailynous.com/2023/06/28/three-stabbed-in-philosophy-course-at-waterloo/
Recent philosophy-related news*, and a request… 1. Stephen Kershnar (SUNY Fredonia), whose February 2022 discussion of adult-child sex on the Brain in a Vat podcast sparked viral outrage and l...
Recent philosophy-related news…* 1. Cornel West (Union Theological Seminary) is running for President of the United States for the People’s Party. Do check out the very Cornel West video anno...
During the summer slow-down, many news items will be consolidated in occasional “philosophy news” summary posts. This is the first. Yujin Nagasawa will be moving from the University of Birmin...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the results of its recent elections. The new office holders are listed below: Board of Officers Member-at-Large Gwen Bradford (Rice Univ...
Who is Ben Chan, assistant professor of philosophy at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin? Correct. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a philosopher is doing well on a game show in which the...
https://dailynous.com/2023/05/18/philosophy-professor-on-jeopardy-winning-streak/
Trinity College Dublin’s main library has been known as the Berkeley Library, after philosopher George Berkeley, since its opening in 1967, but its name will now change, owing to Berkeley’s o...
https://dailynous.com/2023/04/27/trinity-college-to-rename-its-berkeley-library/
Last week we reported on how Christian Coons, associate professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), is facing disciplinary proceedings that may lead to his termination from...
https://dailynous.com/2023/03/27/sex-discrimination-in-a-philosophy-job-search-at-bgsu-guest-post/
David Enoch, professor of philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was among those protesting the Israeli government’s controversial plans to scale back the independence and power of its j...
https://dailynous.com/2023/03/16/david-enoch-arrested-while-protesting-judicial-reforms-in-israel/
While major newspapers report on philosophy with, on average, slightly positive sentiment, it seems this positive sentiment becomes slighter by the year. Charles Lassiter (Gonzaga) has conducted ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/03/15/how-the-press-feels-about-philosophy/
The University of California, Merced now has a Philosophy Department. The proposal to create a Philosophy Department made it through the last of its various levels of official institutional appro...
https://dailynous.com/2023/03/01/a-philosophy-department-is-born-2/
Over 100 Israeli philosophers have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the nation’s Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, expressing concern about recentl...
https://dailynous.com/2023/02/22/israeli-philosophers-oppose-governments-anti-democratic-reforms/
Robert Louden, who recently retired from his position as professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine (USM), gave his department $300,000 to endow a lecture serie...
https://dailynous.com/2023/02/21/retired-philosophy-professor-gifts-300000-to-fund-lecture-series/