April 2004
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Spank Dick Cheney
And get a laugh at this site.
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Byrd Savages Bush Again
Sometimes even U.S. Senators, when they get old enough and established enough, dispense with the euphemisms and guardedness, and cut to the chase: Senator Byrd of West Virginia has been doing that regularly regarding the most criminally incompetent and dishonest President in living memory. Senator Byrd’s latest is here; a few apt excerpts: “[On May…
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Intelligent Design and “Patent Con-Artists”
Pharyngula is having good fun with ID theorist William Dembski’s “elevation of patent con-artists to spiritual leaders.”
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GW Law Dean Young to be New Utah President
Michael Young, Dean of the law school at George Washington University, has been selected as the next President of the University of Utah: details here.
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Sanders v. Greenspan
This is now a bit dated (it’s from July 2003), but is still priceless: Vermont congressman (an independent-cum-socialist) Bernie Sanders calls Alan Greenspan on his bullshit.
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Toronto Hires Philosopher of Biology Walsh from Edinburgh
Denis Walsh (philosophy of biology), currently at the University of Edinburgh, has accepted a tenured joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, to start in July, 2005.
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Wash U Trying to Recruit Moral Philosopher Doris
The Philosophy Department at Washington University in St. Louis–which has already had a busy year, having made two tenured appointments (John Heil [philosophy of mind] from Davidson College and Kit Wellman [political philosophy] from Georgia State University) and one tenure-track appointment (Gillian Russell [philosophy of language] from Princeton)–has now also made a tenured offer to…
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Should Law Schools Adopt the Business School Model?
I had noted in an earlier posting that Northwestern Law School’s adoption of a business-school model had been controversial with some faculty. This article discusses the general issue of law schools emulating business schools, with extensive quotations from Dean Van Zandt at Northwestern, among many others. One interesting bit, a propos my earlier posting: “Thomas…
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Syverud Stepping Down as Vanderbilt Law Dean
Kent Syverud, the successful and highly regarded Dean of Vanderbilt’s law school since 1997, will step down at the conclusion of his second term next summer. The Vanderbilt press release is here. While the press release contains the obligatory puffery on such occasions, it’s worth saying that there really is lots of tangible (i.e., certain…
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“Real Men Do Metaphysics”
There is an interesting discussion going on at the Sappho’s Breathing site about whether the dominance in English-speaking philosophy of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind isn’t connected to a male bias of the discipline. A number of well-known younger philosophers–including Jessica Wilson and Jason Stanley–have weighed in on the discussion. An…
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Texas Philosophy Making Bids for Bealer and Dancy
The Philosophy Department at the University of Texas at Austin has made senior offers to George Bealer (metaphysics, epistemology) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Jonathan Dancy (metaethics, epistemology, early modern philosophy) at the University of Reading. The offer to Dancy is for a half-time tenured appointment; he recently turned down the Chair…
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Where Federal Judges Went to Law School
UPDATE: This is a corrected version (4/27): Mr. Hurt informed me that 300 judges were missing from the initial sample. The results do not change much. What follows is a list of the top 30 law schools with the most alumni on the federal bench (either federal district courts or the courts of appeals). Thanks…
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Truth & Realism Conference in St. Andrews this Summer
If you’re a philosopher travelling in Europe in June, you may want to see about attending this exciting conference, which features an exceptional line-up of philosophical talent.
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Italian Scientists and Other Citizens Protest the Removal of Evolution from the School Curriculum
Enzo Rossi, a philosophy graduate student at the University of St. Andrews, confirms that the theory of evolution has been removed from the Italian school curriculum, but calls my attention to “an on-line plea against those obscurantist new primary school curricula” here. He notes: “The plea is hosted by the liberal newspaper ‘Repubblica’, and it…
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Two Law Professors Among Finalists for U of Utah Presidency
Susan Westerberg Praeger, former Dean of the law school at UCLA, and Michael Young, Dean of the law school at George Washington University, are among the three finalists for the Presidency of the University of Utah. More details here.
Perhaps one can quibble with this or that statement or claim, and of course speaking about probabilities or risk estimates…