Featured Article · Daily Nous
As mentioned in my Summer 2022 Plans, to help keep readers up to date with philosophy news this summer, I’ll be be creating a space each month for individuals and institutions to share news. ¶ This is the first of these, for the remainder of May. ¶ If you have news of the sort that would typically appear on Daily Nous, please share it in the comments. By now most readers have a sense of what such news is, but just in case, here are some examples: faculty moves at the associate level or higher involving at least one department with a graduate program in philosophy philosophers winning awards, prizes, or other honors philosophers receiving substantial grants new philosophy journals new philosophy programs new research resources for philosophers new associations or groups for philosophers policy changes of note at philosophy journals, publishers, institutions data regarding philosophers, philosophy students, and philosophy (or efforts to gather such data) innovative presentations of...
Recent Media · Podcasts & Lectures
HERE. I largely agree with this piece. In intellectual life we spend a lot of time dumping on narrow-minded, Über-patriotic, provincial and uneducated aggressors. I do it too, yielding to no one in my contempt for the cheaply anti-intellectual cult of racist and pseudo-masculine bullies that makes up a large part of support for Trump in this country. In my view they are a plague on us all, and still pose a grave danger. That said, there is nothing lazier in intellectual life than reflexive anti-Western and anti-American sentiment. At bottom it’s just an inverted form of American exceptionalism: if America isn’t the best, then it must at least be the worst. The CIA must be responsible for just about anything rotten that goes on in the world, and so forth. In this connection, a sweeping anti-capitalism has returned as a kind of substitute religion rather than a nuanced critique, a new way to signal group allegiance by demonstrating that your soul has been saved. ... Read More ›
Object Oriented Philosophy · Featured Blog