February 2004
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John Campbell to Berkeley
John Campbell (philosophy of mind) at Oxford University has accepted the senior offer from Berkeley. (Campbell was chosen only a couple of years ago as the Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at Oxford, after David Chalmers turned the post down.) Campbell represents a style of philosophy of mind that is influential in the U.K., less…
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Holden from Syracuse to UC Santa Barbara
Thomas Holden (early modern), a recent North Carolina PhD who is currently an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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Don’t Expect Much New Before Sunday
I’m off to Los Angeles for a few days (talking tomorrow at USC on “Why Evolutionary Biology is (so far) Irrelevant to Law”), so there won’t be much new between now and Sunday or Monday.
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Another International Lawyer Makes a Move: Shelton from Notre Dame to GW
Dinah Shelton, an international law scholar at the University of Notre Dame, has accepted a senior offer from George Washington University.
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More Thoughts on International Comparisons of Poverty
Two readers have written with pertinent observations about the surprising data adduced by Tom Smith purporting to show that one out of three people in Sweden and the UK were impoverished, while a mere 17% in the U.S. were. Chris Bertram (Bristol Philosophy) writes: “I think the key line to notice in the Blackburn paper…
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Arizona Makes Bid for Timmons
The University of Arizona has made a senior offer to Mark Timmons (ethics, metaethics) at the University of Memphis. Arizona hired Timmons’s not infrequent co-author Terence Horgan (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, metaethics) from Memphis just a couple of years ago.
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International lawyer Byers to UBC
Michael Byers (international law), currently on the law faculty at Duke, has accepted a Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia’s law faculty.
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A British Perspective on the Myth of the Postmodern University
An intellectual historian and political theorist at Cambridge University has written with the following thoughts on “The Myth of the Postmodern University” from a UK perspective: “1. It is certainly the case that in US history departments postmodernism has had a significant impact – although i think you may exaggerate the degree to which this…
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Soames from Princeton to USC
Scott Soames (philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy), a member of the Princeton faculty for more than two decades, has accepted the offer from the University of Southern California. That’s a major hiring coup for USC, which should also up their odds of recruiting Jeff King (philosophy of language) at the University of California…
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Well-Being in Canada and the U.S.
This from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times: “An impressive array of data shows that Canadians live longer, healthier lives than we do. What’s more, they pay roughly half as much per capita as we do ($2,163 versus $4,887 in 2001) for the privilege. “Exactly why Canadians fare better is the subject of considerable academic debate. Some…
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Nader, Kerry, Bush, Edwards
So it’s official, Nader will run for President: see the interview here announcing his run, his formal and eloquent campaign declaration here, and a longer statement and then interview at the National Press Club here. The suggestion, common among the Democratic apparatchiks, that Nader is doing this for ego reasons strikes me as both silly…
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Kaufman from Florida to Colorado
Dan Kaufman (early modern; PhD, U Mass/Amherst), currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida at Gainesville, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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The less they know, the less they have a sense of humor
A commenter at this site relays the following astonishing correspondence with Edward “the Vast Leftwing Conspiracy is Out to Get Me” Feser. The commenter sent Feser the following e-mail mocking Feser’s paranoid fantasies: >From: srobert@met.utah.edu >To: edwardfeser@hotmail.com >Subject: Science and the Left >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:43:42 -0700 (MST) > >Thanks for the enlightening…
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Strictly of local interest…
…the Texas Freedom Network’s primary voter guide is here. If you’re a Texas voter, do check it out.
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American Philosophy Today
UPDATE: I’m moving this to the front, since this was originally posted on a Saturday morning. Comments so far have been extremely helpful; more welcome. ======================== Peter Momtchiloff, the philosophy editor at OUP, has asked me to prepare a short essay (1,000 words) for the second edition of The Oxford Companion to Philosophy on “American…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…