A difference between animals & machines. A 17th century samurai's rules for living. Visual perception & culture. Aristotle & epistemic opacity. Is the power we have over future generations legitimate? AI doing new math. The benefits of studying philosophy dailynous.com/2025/08/25/min…

"In philosophy especially, I figure the reader is nearly always gasping for breath, in danger of being swept out to sea, so the writer should do everything in their power to help..." dailynous.com/2025/08/25/pit…

Let’s say you had an unlimited budget and access to students. How would you design a project that tested whether or not taking philosophy courses makes people better thinkers? dailynous.com/2025/08/25/how…

“To capitalize on the benefits of AI and avoid the risks, teachers must craft two AI policies: one for classes where most of the students will exploit any available shortcuts, and another for classes where most of the students won’t.” - Victor Kumar dailynous.com/2025/08/26/you…

The American Philosophical Association's Board of Officers has responded to a petition calling for it to make a statement to "condemn the ongoing atrocities" in Gaza and "express solidarity with Palestinian scholars, intellectuals, and students." dailynous.com/2025/08/26/the…

Philosopher Harry Deutsch of Illinois State University has died. dailynous.com/2025/08/27/har…

What is your department's coffee practice? What should it be? dailynous.com/2025/08/27/aca…

Written a book? There's a good chance a pirated version of it is online and a good chance the pirated version was scraped by an AI for training data. A group of authors has now filed a class-action lawsuit about this. Should you join it? dailynous.com/2025/08/28/cla…

Philosophers, if you'll be in Croatia on Monday, you may want to head to Rijeka, where a one day metaphilosophy workshop with Page about Timothy Williamson, philosopher. and others is taking place. metafilozofija.uniri.hr/?p=888

A fictional sex-scandal movie set in Yale's Dept. of Philosophy. Vagueness & consciousness. Morally flawed heroes. The civic value of losing loudly. Living with a chip in your brain. Transformative shared experiences. Drive-by criticism... dailynous.com/2025/08/29/min…

New reviews of philosophy books, new philosophy podcast episodes, and new and revised entries at online philosophy resources... dailynous.com/2025/09/01/onl…

Faculty on the move... dailynous.com/2025/09/02/kha…

Officials deport a student from China who had a full scholarship to study philosophy at the University of Houston, 36 hours after he lands in Texas. It's unclear why. dailynous.com/2025/09/02/phi…

What do ordinary people think philosophy is for? Some public opinion research about philosophy... dailynous.com/2025/09/03/how…

Liberalism vs. animal rights. Understanding ignorance. Another billionaire advises people to study philosophy. Alternative ways of structuring higher education. A novel about effective altruism. AI-free courses. In Our Time's Melvyn Bragg is retiring... dailynous.com/2025/09/03/min…

Judge rules that Trump's freezing of Harvard's funding is illegal. dailynous.com/2025/09/04/tru…

Robert Gordon, a philosopher at the University of Missouri-St.Louis known for his development of "simulation theory" in the philosophy of mind, has died. dailynous.com/2025/09/05/rob…

Ever dream of telling off your reviewers? One philosopher wrote up his version of doing so, and got it published... dailynous.com/2025/09/05/pee…

New philosophy book reviews, philosophy podcast episodes, and updates to online philosophy resources... dailynous.com/2025/09/08/onl…

There were a number of articles accepted by a top philosophy journal in the first six months of 2025, and that number is... dailynous.com/2025/09/08/phi…