Daniel Nolan is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California Santa Cruz. He took up this position in July 2025.
Daniel was the McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame from August 2016 to June 2025
In 2015-16 Daniel was the William J. Bouwsma Fellow at the National Humanities Center.
Daniel was Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University from July 2011 until August 2016. In July 2010 Daniel started a position as Senior Fellow at the ANU, on leave from the University of Nottingham.
From 2006-2011 he was he was Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. While at Nottingham, Daniel was a visiting full professor at the University of Michigan in the fall semester of 2008, and a program visitor at the ANU in the (northern) academic year of 2006-7.
Before Nottingham, Daniel was the Professor of Theoretical Philosophy in the Departments of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He was at St Andrews for three years, the first two as a lecturer.
Before that, Daniel was a member of the Syracuse University, in Syracuse, USA. He was there for two years, the first year as the "Allen and Anita Sutton Distinguished Faculty Fellow", and the second as a tenure-track assistant professor.
Before that he spent a semester as a temporary lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Queensland. Before that he was in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. For three years there he was a postdoc on a "Macquarie University Research Fellowship" (or MURF, as they were charmingly called). The year before that he was a temporary lecturer at Macquarie. Before that, he was a PhD student in the Philosophy Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). He did his undergraduate work at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. As his early history suggests, he is Australian.
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Here is yet another copy of the Canberra Planners' Credo. At one stage, this was the most famous thing that I had written. It dates from 1996. It was mentioned in the Times Literary Supplement a while ago, which is some sort of achievement for a piece of postgraduate student work-avoidance.