January 2004
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In Memoriam
Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) His distinguished career in Italian intellectual and political life is remembered here.
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Fred D’Agostino to Queensland
Fred D’Agostino (philosophy of linguistics, philosophy of the social sciences, political philosophy, philosophy of science) of the University of New England has accepted a senior offer from the University of Queensland. This is the 3rd senior appointment for the Queensland department in the past two years; the others were Mark Colyvan and Phil Dowe, who’ve…
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More on Free Expression in Cyberspace…
…and Michigan philosopher Peter Ludlow in the New York Times.
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Keith DeRose says no to Arizona
Yet another distinguished philosopher and PGR Advisory Board member, Keith DeRose (epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion) at Yale University, has turned down an offer from another top department, in this case the University of Arizona. This leads me to wonder: is there a correlation between being a PGR Advisory Board member and market…
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Watch out for Penn State-Altoona
Pennsylvania State University at Altoona is going to find it awfully hard to hire anyone if they follow through with this persecution of a tenured professor. Shame on them!
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John Martin Fischer on the radio
Distinguished philosopher and PGR Advisory Board member John Martin Fischer (University of California, Riverside) will be the guest on John Perry and Ken Taylor’s radio program, “Philosophy Talk,” Tuesday January 20 at noon PST. The topic will be “immortality”. There will be a live stream on the internet at the KALW website, KALW.org. The first…
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This should put the Bush-Hitler nonsense to rest once and for all
Leave it to the sensible Canadians to clear things up here: “Some refer to George W. Bush as another Hitler. This is a gross exaggeration. He has constructed no death camps and only one concentration camp — at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. “While it does seem, in Nuremberg terms, that Bush could be called a…
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And now the Florida Taliban…
…go after the judiciary. More from Miami Law prof Michael Froomkin here.
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Ned Block turns down Harvard
Ned Block, a leading figure in the philosophy of mind currently at New York University (and even more distinguished, of course, as a member of the PGR Advisory Board!), has turned down the senior offer from Harvard. That’s a setback for Harvard, which has plans to try to replenish its strengths in what is sometimes…
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The hopeless Association of American Law Schools
I’ve heard from various friends and acquaintances who had expected to see me on the Sunday morning (January 4, 2004) panel on “Motivations for Legal Scholarship: Why We Write?” at the annual meeting of the AALS in Atlanta. I was listed in the program, along with Yale Kamisar (Michigan/San Diego), Jonathan Macey (Cornell), Kimberly Yuracko…
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A gripping letter from a U.S. soldier about the real situation “on the ground” in Iraq
With permission, I’m printing below a lucid and gripping account from a U.S. soldier with a reserve unit of the 82nd Airborne in the vicinity of Fallujah. (This came via a colleague, though I touched base with the solider directly to secure permission. Identifying references have been removed.) ============= Hi guys, I got some internet…
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More on the Bush Administration War on Science…
…is here. So much for the Enlightenment…
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A day in the life of a Princeton philosophy graduate student
But the day happens to be the day of his orals…more here. Very funny. (Thanks to Michael Sevel for the pointer.)
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Legal Obligation and Authority
Anyone interested in legal philosophy will want to read my colleague Les Green’s new essay on the subject in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Yet More on Blogging and Academia
So far the discussion among myself, Steve Bainbridge, and Dean Sargent (and now add philosopher Brian Weatherson as well) has focused on whether existing faculty should get “scholarly” (or perhaps “service”) credit for the work they do on their blogs. But what about those bloggers who are not presently faculty but may be looking to…
I’m not sure whether an interactive, online logic textbook counts as an open-access philosophy book, but for those who might…