January 2005
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Osgoode/NYU Launch New 4-Year Degree Program to Earn Canadian LLB and American JD
MOVING TO THE FRONT from January 27, 2005, because of further updates, below. ================================= Osgoode Hall School of Law at York University, Toronto (Canada’s oldest, and at least some say, most prestigious law school) and New York University School of Law have announced a new four-year program that will permit students to earn both a…
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The Iraqi “Elections” Have United…
the American Right and the liberals, which is something (or is it?). Meanwhile, Juan Cole (History, Michigan) offers some pertinent reminders: [T]his [electoral] process [in Iraq] is not a model for anything, and would not willingly be imitated by anyone else in the region. The 1997 elections in Iran were much more democratic, as were…
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The Imminent Military Draft
The right-wing Project for a New American Century–which includes various folks with close ties to Bush & his bestiary of madmen–on Friday called for reinstatement of a military draft, without, of course, using the word. Their letter is here; an excerpt: The United States military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it…
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Most Important Books in the Philosophy of Mind?
David Chalmers (Philosophy, ANU) discusses the question here, and invites others to make their suggestions.
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Wall Street Journal Defense of Creationist “Biologist” Sternberg Demolished…
…here by Sahotra Sarkar (Biology & Philosophy, Texas).
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Rule by Cult
From a recent public lecture by Seymour Hersh: [W]e all deal in "macro" [i.e., the "big picture"] in Washington. On the macro, we’re hopeless. We’re nowhere. The press is nowhere. The congress is nowhere. The military is nowhere. Every four-star General I know is saying, "Who is going to tell them we have no clothes?"…
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Bioethicist Peter Singer Part-Time to Melbourne
Details here: Although born in Melbourne, Professor Singer has for the last five years been based in the US where he is Ira W DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the Centre for Human Values at Princeton University. He has been offered an appointment as Laureate Professor under the University of Melbourne’s Eminent Scholars’ Program and…
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“Freedom’s Cause”
It’s well-described by a columnist for The National Catholic Reporter: [O]n U.S. Inauguration Day…the picture on the front page of The Irish Times was a large four-color picture of a small Iraqi girl. Her little body was a coil of steel. She sat knees up, cowering, screaming madly into the dark night. Her white clothes…
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The Coming Military Draft, Vol. 9327
Yet another analysis of the facts sans fantasies and lies. (Thanks to Jason Walta for the pointer.)
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The Horowitz Attack on Academic Freedom Arrives in Ohio
The bill introduced in the state legislature is here. (Thanks to Joshua Smith for the pointer.) As one news story (for which I could not locate a URL) stated, the bill would regulate what professors can say in class, and that’s exactly right. Here’s some illustrative provisions: A) The institution shall provide its students with…
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The Meaning of First-Semester First-Year Law School Grades
Orin Kerr (Law, George Washington) makes a number of sensible points here.
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Exeter Makes Bid for Philosopher of Biology Moss
The University of Exeter has offered a Readership to Lenny Moss (philosophy of biology), who is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
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Statistical Analysis of PGR Data
Kieran Healy (Sociology, Arizona) has prepared an informative analysis of (anonymized) data from the last PGR that I had supplied him.
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Philosopher Pryor from Princeton to NYU
James Pryor (epistemology), currently Associate Professor at Princeton, has accepted the tenured offer from New York University. He is presently a "visiting professor" at NYU this term, and will now be staying on. The rich get richer…
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Openly Gay Law Professor Sues Michigan Over Tenure Denial
Peter Hammer, an expert in health law who is now an Associate Professor of Law at Wayne State University, was denied tenure at the University of Michigan Law School in 2002; he has now sued the University, alleging discrimination against him as an openly gay man who lived with a same-sex domestic partner. A copy…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii