Some philosophy articles might be exposed as containing plagiarized material, might have editorial notes appended to them indicating as much, or might even be retracted, yet no matter how thoroug...
https://dailynous.com/2023/11/01/zombie-plagiarism-in-philosophy/
Lex Academic, the editing firm founded by philosophers Louise Chapman and Constantine Sandis, includes “sensitivity reading” among the variety of services it provides. What is “sensitivity ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/10/26/sensitivity-reading-services-for-philosophers-and-others/
“I like to think that academic fields often have a proprietary emotion. In the case of philosophy, the proprietary emotion is embarrassment.” That’s Daniel Stoljar (Australian National Univ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/09/05/philosophical-exceptionalism-philosophical-writing/
New virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy will be forming soon. Joshua Smart (St. Bonaventure University), once again, is organizing them. He writes in with the...
https://dailynous.com/2023/09/04/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-11/
Can you do philosophy with comics? “Yeah, sure, easy.” But why do it? That’s the subject of this week’s guest post by Pete Mandik, professor of philosophy at William Paterson University...
https://dailynous.com/2023/07/25/philosophy-through-comics-guest-post/
“When my younger self complained angrily in the margins with scrawls of ‘where is this going?’, he missed the sights and insights that the journey itself provided.” A kind of philosophica...
https://dailynous.com/2023/06/20/some-remarks-on-form-in-philosophy-guest-post/
“Every success is the tip of an iceberg of failure.” That’s Roy Sorensen, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, in a highly engaging and entertaining interview at T...
https://dailynous.com/2023/04/06/failure-stealth-and-philosophy/
New virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy will be forming soon. Joshua Smart (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville), once again, is organizing them. H...
https://dailynous.com/2023/01/17/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-10/
Virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy will be forming soon. Joshua Smart (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville), once again, is organizing them. He wri...
https://dailynous.com/2022/08/29/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-9/
“Most contemporary philosophy writing is just bad writing… How did things go so wrong? It’s tempting to declare that philosophers are simply terrible writers, but I think that’s a mistake...
https://dailynous.com/2022/08/16/the-philosophy-guild-guest-post/
What are the best opening lines of philosophy articles and books? We’ve compiled lists of philosophy’s most beautiful passages and philosophical works with good, witty, or clever titles b...
https://dailynous.com/2022/03/11/great-opening-lines-of-philosophy-articles-and-books/
Virtual writing groups for people working on their dissertation in philosophy will be forming soon. Once again, Joshua Smart (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville) is organizing them. He...
https://dailynous.com/2022/01/31/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-8/
Wouldn’t it be useful to have a group of people read your book manuscript and have a discussion about it with you? While it’s not unusual to ask friends and colleagues for comments on one’s...
A philosopher putting together resources for a professionalization seminar for graduate students in his department writes in with concerns about the “ethics of credit” in philosophy. Jordi Ca...
https://dailynous.com/2021/12/02/citations-and-the-ethics-of-credit/
In the wake of last week’s post about trends in co-authoring in philosophy, a discussion has been taking place on Twitter about which philosophers co-author the most. The conversation started w...
https://dailynous.com/2021/10/21/which-philosopher-co-authors-most/
“We think philosophy is due an ethos change; one where the myth of the ‘lone genius’ is dispelled and where co-authoring is both encouraged and acknowledged.” Those are the words of Maty�...
Joshua Smart (Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville) is once again organizing virtual dissertation writing groups. Dr. Smart, who has been arranging Virtual Dissertation Groups (VDGs) for s...
https://dailynous.com/2021/08/17/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-7/
A study of papers published in academic science journals on the topic of “cave science” found that “papers containing higher proportions of jargon in their titles and abstracts were cited l...
https://dailynous.com/2021/04/15/jargon-citation-in-philosophy/
“There has to be a balance between the formal and the conversational.” That’s one of many observations about writing philosophy that William “Bill” Lycan, emeritus professor of philosop...
In his 2013 book, The Limits of Kindness, Caspar Hare (MIT) includes a brief “stylistic note” that gets across an important lesson for academic writers: don’t overestimate the familiarity ...
https://dailynous.com/2021/01/08/biting-bullet-note-style-caspar-hare/
Once again, Joshua Smart is organizing workshopping groups for philosophy graduate students currently writing dissertations. He says: Do you or someone you love suffer from writing-a-philosophy...
https://dailynous.com/2021/01/05/virtual-dissertation-groups-spring-2021/
The following is an announcement from Joshua Smart (Ohio State University) regarding virtual dissertation groups (VDG) for philosophy graduate students. Do you or someone you love suffer from ...
https://dailynous.com/2020/08/19/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-6/
The following is an announcement from Joshua Smart (Ohio State University) regarding virtual dissertation groups (VDG) for philosophy graduate students. VDG is a free service that connects gradua...
https://dailynous.com/2020/01/06/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-5/
The following is an announcement from Joshua Smart (Ohio State University) regarding virtual dissertation groups (VDG). VDG is a free service that connects graduate students to provide feedback o...
https://dailynous.com/2019/08/26/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-4/
Once again, Joshua Smart (Ohio State) is organizing virtual dissertation writing groups for philosophy Ph.D. students. He writes: Virtual Dissertation Groups (VDG) is a free service that connects...
https://dailynous.com/2019/01/11/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-3/
Once again, Joshua Smart (Ohio State) is organizing virtual writing groups for philosophy students working on their dissertations. Here are the details: Virtual Dissertation Groups VDG is a free...
https://dailynous.com/2018/08/20/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-philosophy-grad-students/
“In a way that will be familiar to any reader of analytic philosophy, and is only too familiar to all of us who perpetrate it, this style tries to remove in advance every conceivable misunderst...
https://dailynous.com/2018/01/24/dont-forget-remove-scaffolding/
Joshua Smart (Oklahoma) is once again organizing virtual writing groups for those working on dissertations in philosophy. He writes: Virtual Dissertation Groups (VDG) is a free service that conne...
https://dailynous.com/2018/01/17/virtual-dissertation-writing-groups-2/