September 2003
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Philosopher’s Annual Announces Choices for Top 10 Articles of 2002
The Philosopher’s Annual has announced its choices for the top ten philosophy articles of 2002: Download file You can see the articles chosen over the past quarter-century here. As the editors admit, choosing 10 articles is a rather daunting task. But if you look at their choices from 20-25 years ago, it’s certainly the case…
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New members of PGR Advisory Board for 2004-06
UPDATED TO REFLECT 2 ADDITIONAL NEW BOARD MEMBERS I am pleased to introduce seventeen additional distinguished philosophers who will be joining the Advisory Board of the Philosophical Gourmet Report and lending their expertise to the preparation of the 2004-06 Report. They are: Chris Bobonich (PhD, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and…
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Real Scientists Speak out on the Biology Textbook Controversy
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has more Nobel Laureates on its faculty than any medical school in the nation, as well as more than a dozen fellows of the National Academy of Sciences. Happily, these genuinely eminent scientists–contrast the coterie of “scientists” rounded up by the Discovery [sic] Institute–have penned an…
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Baylor Alums Want Discovery [sic] Institute’s Poster Boy Out
Interesting development here: some Baylor alumni want Discovery [sic] Institute poster boy Francis Beckwith removed from his directorship of an Institute at Baylor that was founded on the principle of separation of church and state. As I understand their position, they are not challenging his academic appointment at the university, just his administrative position with…
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IN MEMORIAM
Arthur Kinoy (1920-2003) Progressive lawyer and law professor. The New York Times obituary is available here
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Primer on Draft Resistance
Aspiring young philosophers in the U.S., concerned about our nation’s belligerent posturing, may find this document of value.
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Rhodes Scholars
Reading Yglesias taking issue with Andrew Sullivan’s bashing of Rhodes Scholars reminded me of a dirty little secret, about which the “public” seems unaware: namely, that Oxford faculty have a quite low opinion of Rhodes Scholars from the U.S., and that the colleges fight among each other to not admit them to their college. From…
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Cause and Effect
“The acceptance of evolution is responsible for the degeneration of morals in society,” said gospel preacher Mac Deever. “People are shooting at each other on the highway. Kids are being taught that they came from dirt. There is no accountability; they say, ‘I’m just a product of evolutionary theory. Evolution made me what I am,…
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Philosophical Joke
Thanks to one of our JD/PhD students for this one: Why do eliminative materialists sleep so well at night? Nothing on their mind.
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LePore interviews Davidson
Quite interesting interview–interesting both biographically and philosophically– with Donald Davidson by Ernie LePore, available here.
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Bibliography of Metaethics at a new address
This excellent resource, by Jimmy Lenman, has moved with Professor Lenman to the University of Sheffield.
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45 days, 10,000 page views
Averaging over 2,000 page views per week lately. And the ratio of page views to readers is? Good question.
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The Libertarians on Horowitz
Good article from Reason on David Horowitz’s Orwellian “Academic Freedom Bill of Rights.”
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“No ideas and the ability to express them: that’s a journalist.”
In most fields which require the ability to use words and ideas, many of those who make it to “the very top” have intellectual content and ability: this is true in law, in philosophy, in economics, and so on. But it is rather painfully not true in journalism, where, in general, “quality rises to the…
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Alumni Magazines
Even though Washington University announced in its alumni magazine, sent to every law professor in America, that the political scientist Matthew McCubbins from UC San Diego would be joining them in 2004, I’ve received the somewhat cryptic warning from a friend of McCubbins (a reliable one, I should add) that “it won’t happen.” If that…
I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…