"I've never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX." A report on the university created as a bastion of independent thinking and free expression.

First Plato, now ethics...

A few philosophers were awarded Major Research Fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust...

The APA will return to conducting all of its major conferences in person... dailynous.com/2026/01/15/a...

The Journal of the History of Philosophy article prize goes to...

The president of a university actually defends forcing a professor to remove Plato from his course by saying, "We didn't ban ALL Plato." Um, first, no one said you did. Second... dailynous.com/2026/01/13/a...

The president of a university actually defends forcing a professor to remove Plato from his course by saying, "We didn't ban ALL Plato." Um, first, no one said you did. Second... dailynous.com/2026/01/13/a...

Time is short, so how can we possibly give enough oral exams to all of our students to make sure they're actually learning in our courses and not just cheating with AI? Have an AI administer the exams, of course.

Proofs that you're immortal. A innate "number sense". Photographing a robot & a philosopher. The *un*availability heuristic. Data actually not available upon request. Your domestic bot & your morality. Getting writing done...

"Trans members of this profession have been rapidly losing their freedoms and protections.... Scholarship on the philosophy of sex and gender, especially trans philosophy, has come under attack” -- from a recent APA Board open letter to trans philosophers & the philosophy profession...

"Legalize Plato" t-shirts and a revision to Professor Peterson's syllabus, in the updates at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Show your support for academic freedom...

“The first question is, what is the question?” One of Peter Adamson's "rules" for writing philosophy...

Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson, who was told by the university to remove readings by Plato & others from his moral problems course, is replacing them with a news article about the university's censorship and violation of academic freedom. See Update 3 at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Is there “calling dibs” in philosophy?

"Dr. Peterson said he would reluctantly alter the course." See Update 2 at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

"We are tiny specks in a vast universe. How can we or anything we care about really matter?" Philosophers have tended to be critical of the reasoning behind this kind of lament, but in a new paper, philosopher Luke Elson defends something like it.

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Not your typical philosophy course...

Reconsidering consent in the ethics of sex. A tv show about teaching philosophy in prison. Narratives vs. vibes. Why do we sleep? A daily logic puzzle. Conversation on consciousness. New philosophy podcast...

The pessimistic meta-induction isn't just a theoretical problem for the sciences; it's part of a political problem for them. What's the response, then?

The 2025 Sanders Epistemology Prize goes to...

New reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries at philosophy websites, new philosophy podcast episodes...

Happy New Year, philosofriends! If you have suggestions for what you'd like to see at Daily Nous this year, let me know. Thanks!

Semiotic paradox alert!

The results of the philosophy department anti-malaria fundraising competition...

The "depth" of bodies. Men, women, sex, monsters. Psychoanalysis as political theory. Mistrust & learning. New digital minds newsletter. The philosophy job market. The year in science.

This may be the largest single grant for a project led by a philosophy professor.

Georgetown is the latest philosophy department to announce cuts to its PhD admissions for fall 2026...

He sees you when you’re sleeping. Hmmm. He knows when you’re awake. Okay. He knows if you've been bad or good. Interesting... What else does Santa Claus know, and how does he know it?

He sees you when you’re sleeping. Hmmm. He knows when you’re awake. Okay. He knows if you've been bad or good. Interesting... What else does Santa Claus know, and how does he know it?

In today's college courses, “both reading and writing no longer function properly.” Still, one professor has managed to create a remarkable learning environment in his philosophy course. Here, he shares what he has done.

The American Philosophical Association has announced the winners of its latest round of prizes...

The appeal of "mere civility". AI consciousness ≠ AI sentience. Is "I think therefore I am" a bad translation? Night at the museum of philosophy. Chuck Norris philosophy jokes. Why pick political leaders randomly? Annals of surprising ignorance: why is ice slippery? dailynous.com/2025/12/22/m...

At least one academic publisher is now outsourcing article production to an AI firm. How's it going?

There isn't a lot of data about about the quality of teaching at colleges and universities. But would it be better if there were?

A philosopher shares "the great stories of bioethics"

A variety of philosophical projects have been awarded funding in a recent round of grants from the Swedish Research Council.

A new project to digitize the complete works of Rudolf Carnap will be getting underway...

New reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new episodes of philosophy podcasts...

The idea that "Frege created logic and analytic philosophy out of nothing” leaves something out: his dad (who was a German Idealist!)

Two big grants for AI-related projects at Northeastern led by philosophers...

One of this year's recipients of the prestigious Leibniz prize is a philosopher...

New journal: Experimental Philosophy

A human philosopher reports back from an OpenAI higher ed summit. The philosophy of "Pluribus". Boredom is not good, actually. Liberalism & socialism, Rawls & Marx. A philosopher's poems about the American Revolution. Reading through Ruth Barcan Marcus's Modalities. Education's "auto-cannibalism".

“Arguments are, at best, the regulatory structure of philosophy. But we often tell our students that the regulatory structure is the thing itself!.. Students come away with the notion that their job is to argue for/against ideas, rather than to generate the ideas…”

Editors at a Springer Nature logic journal resign and launch new open-access journal, Philosophical Logic.

Are you planning a summer program in philosophy? Spread the word about it at Daily Nous.

A philosopher wins what is sometimes referred to as "the Belgian Nobel Prize"