We have students read books and articles, write essays, answer test questions, and make presentations. These all mainly involve words. Is it worth thinking about how to teach philosophy in ways t...
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/07/teaching-philosophy-with-non-linguistic-media/
“Six months on from the brutal Hamas attacks of October 7th, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed… Some 1.9 million people… have been displaced. Over two hundred aid workers have ...
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/07/nyu-philosophy-graduate-students-call-for-divestment/
The University of Bayreuth is launching a new interdisciplinary Master’s degree (MA/MSc) in Philosophy & Computer Science. The program includes philosophy and computer science modules, with all...
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/06/new-an-ma-program-in-philosophy-computing/
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/
Recent links… Discussion welcome. “Practicing our ethics in the real world involves a constant testing of them, a recognition that our zones of ethical interest have no fixed boundaries and m...
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… (If you notice something missing from the weekly update, let us know. Thanks.) S...
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/06/online-philosophy-resources-weekly-update-363/
“It’s been shocking how impoverished, craven, and imprudent the leadership of the Anglophone’s wealthiest and flagship universities have been this past year.” The following is a guest pos...
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/02/dear-university-president-you-could-run-out-the-clock/
Newton da Costa, well-known for his work in logic, died last month. The following obituary of Newton da Costa is by Walter Carnielli (Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Logic, Epistemolo...
New additions to the Heap of Links… Discussion welcome. “You’re losing something essential from the moral equation when you abstract away from relationships” — Daniel Yudkin (Penn) on ...
Cinzia Arruzza, currently associate professor of philosophy at The New School, will be moving to Boston University‘s Department of Philosophy, where she will be the Maria Stata Professor in Cla...
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/01/arruzza-from-new-school-to-boston-university/
Aman Sakhardande is interviewed by Céline Leboeuf. Why Philosophy? Aman Sakhardande interviewed by Celine Leboeuf What is philosophy to you? Before philosophy, I often found myself in this situa...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/30/why-philosophy-aman-sakhardande/
Georgi Gardiner, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, is moving to Tulane University, where she will be associate professor of philosophy and of gender and ...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/30/gardiner-from-tennessee-to-tulane/
Further deciphering of the carbonized Herculaneum papyri, which recently produced information about Plato’s burial place (publicized last week), also detailed the philosopher’s final hours, a...
“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/
“I was trapped in the feeling that philosophy was all important and that anything and everything—including my well being—can be sacrificed for it. This is the core of my addiction to philo...
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… (If you notice something missing from the weekly update, let us know.) SEP New: ...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/29/online-philosophy-resources-weekly-update-362/
Donatella Di Cesare, a professor of philosophy at Sapienza University (Rome), has been charged with “criminal defamation” for describing a politician’s views as “neo-Hitlerite.” – Acc...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/29/italian-philosopher-prosecuted-for-criticizing-politicians-views/
New links… Discussion welcome. “Which animals have the capacity for conscious experience? While much uncertainty remains, some points of wide agreement have emerged” — several philosophe...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the creation of new prizes for philosophical work on artificial intelligence. Specifically, the prizes are for philosophical or philosop...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/25/apa-creates-new-prizes-for-philosophical-research-on-ai/
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/
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced its newly elected members, and a number of philosophers are among them. In today’s announcement, David Oxtoby, president of the Academy, s...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/24/philosophers-among-new-american-academy-of-arts-sciences-fellows-2/
Avia Pasternak, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough will be moving to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, where she will b...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/24/pasternak-from-toronto-scarborough-to-maryland/
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced its new class of fellows, and a couple of philosophers are among them. Most of the 502 newly named fellows are scienti...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/24/philosophers-among-new-class-of-aaas-fellows/
Robert H. Kane, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, has died. David Sosa, chair of the Department of Philosophy at UT Austin, shared the following memorial noti...
Amod Sandhya Lele is interviewed by Céline Leboeuf. Why Philosophy? Amod Sandhya Lele interviewed by Celine Leboeuf What is philosophy to you? Philosophy is the love of wisdom—or more specific...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/23/why-philosophy-amod-sandhya-lele/
You majored in philosophy as an undergraduate, but decided not to pursue any further degrees in philosophy. What are you doing now? Tell us about it. This post is by request of a philosophy profe...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/23/careers-philosophy-majors-job/
Recent links… Discussion welcome. Nevada News covers a professor’s college course in which undergraduates take part in philosophical activities with preschoolers — Professor Amy Reed-Sando...