January 2004
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Speaking of David Brooks…
…here’s a pleasing excoriation of the neocons’ “latest high-profile whore.”
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In Memoriam
Zeno Vendler (1921-2004) A memorial notice is available from the University of Calgary (he also spent much of his career at the University of California at San Diego) here.
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Handsome John Edwards is the man for the Democrats
Further reason for thinking that Senator Edwards of North Carolina is the most electable of the Democrats (quite apart from the fact that he is also one of the most progressive, Kucinich aside): listening to National Public Radio yesterday morning, I heard a previously undecided New Hampshire woman, who usually votes Republican, explain why she…
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Reader reaction on The Epistemology of Political Commentary: Lawson v. Hellie
(I’ve activated comments for this one, and invite further contributions. No anonymous posts. I will also delete idiotic, gratuitously insulting remarks etc. [non-gratuitous polemics are welcome, of course!].) Leading administrative law expert and distinguished and prolific BU law professor Gary Lawson writes with the following comments: “I’m puzzled by why you thought it was worthwhile…
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Nothing like a good ranking…
Here’s a curious site that ranks blogs based on average visits per day. Only blogs with Site Meter are counted. (I’m in the process of signing up for Site Meter, but when the instructions arrived about installation, they immediately exceeded my limited technical competence…so I’m waiting for help.) I’m not quite sure what period is…
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Arundhati Roy on “The New American Century”
Brilliantly written, as always. A sample: “Let’s look this thing in the eye once and for all. To applaud the US Army’s capture of Saddam Hussein, and therefore in retrospect justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq, is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disemboweling the Boston Strangler. And that after a quarter-century partnership in…
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Princeton pursuing Thomas Kelly
Princeton University has made an offer to Thomas Kelly (epistemology, ethics), currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and, prior to that, a Junior Fellow at Harvard’s Society of Fellows.
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Reader Comments on Blogopaths and the Blogosphere
Earlier postings on the “Sociology and Psychology of Blogopaths” (and on a real clinical case here) produced some interesting comments from readers. The crux of the issue posed in the earlier posting was this: “Is there any pertinent literature yet on the psychology and the sociology of the blogosphere? “Psychologically, for example, it would be…
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“Anti-science scum”
Yes, the folks at the Discovery [sic] Institute are at it again, lying about evolution and science, with help from moronic journalists. Fortunately, Pharyngula is on the case. After reading this, the Discovery [sic] Institute “crackpots” shall no doubt be nostalgic for the days when I merely called them “pathological liars.”
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“Ralph Don’t Run”
I’d be delighted if the Democrats were to nominate Ralph Nader, but that’s even less likely than their nominating Dennis Kucinich. And since, as noted in an earlier posting, we’re at an historical moment where it is genuinely important to choose the “lesser of two evils,” I have to say I agree with the message…
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And now big news for Ohio State…
Stewart Shapiro (philosophy of logic and mathematics) has turned down the offer from the University of Notre Dame.
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Where Business School Profs Went to School
The data is here. Some law faculty may find this of interest.
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Amy Gutmann nominated to be next President of Penn
The University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees has nominated Amy Gutmann to be the next President; the Board votes on the nomination on February 20, but in all likelihood, it’s a done deal. Gutmann is currently Provost of Princeton University and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics; she is also one of that small…
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Big News for Wisconsin: Elliott Sober is returning
The distinguished philosopher of science and biology Elliott Sober, who is currently teaching as a tenured professor at Stanford while on leave from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has decided to return to Wisconsin full-time in fall 2004. That’s a big coup for Wisconsin, and something prospective students will want to keep in mind.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii