September 2003
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Indiana Tries to Shut Down Professor’s Blog, then Reverses Itself
Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor, has a good post on the subject here. Since then, IU has reversed its decision, and permitted IU Professor Rasmussen to keep his comments on the university blog site.
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Davidson Memorial Notices
You can find links to numerous obituaries for Donald Davidson here. The one from The Guardian has the most philosophical content, the one from The New York Times the most interesting biographical details.
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Two Notable Faculty Moves
Michael Smith, one of the half-dozen-or-so most significant philosophers working in metaethics in the world, has accepted the offer from Princeton University, to begin in 2004. He will there, of course, be reunited with his former ANU colleague Philip Pettit. (Smith also taught at Princeton in the 1980s.) With Smith, Pettit, Harman, and Johnston, Princeton…
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No new posts before Sunday…
…since I’ll be at what promises to be a very good Nietzsche conference.
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Another Letter to Holt, Rinehart
Biologist and philosopher Sahotra Sarkar received a similar letter from Judith Fowler, President of Holt, Rinehart to the one I received. Professor Sarkar’s reply is available here:Download file
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The Alabama Taliban (with thanks to Brannon Denning)
The Ballad of Chief Justice Roy Moore (sung to the tune of “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” and with apologies to Flatt and Scruggs) Brannon P. Denning Come ‘n listen to my story ‘bout a judge named Moore Had a rock so big could barely fit it through th’ door Had it installed in the…
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them–Round 4
Terri Leo is the leader of the Texas Taliban faction on the State Board of Education; she even exercised her perogative as a Board Member to make a speech before the last public hearing of the Board in Austin to profess her commitment to creationist-inspired skepticism about Darwin’s theory of evolution (and this before hearing…
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Department of tasteless comments
Try this, courtesy of Matthew Yglesias.
All about class.