March 2005
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Plutocracy Update
What the Republicans are really about (other than theocracy and war-mongering, that is).
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Republicans, the Party of Theocracy
Sharp analysis by historian Juan Cole (Michigan): The cynical use by the US Republican Party of the Terri Schiavo case repeats, whether deliberately or accidentally, the tactics of Muslim fundamentalists and theocrats in places like Egypt and Pakistan. These tactics involve a disturbing tendency to make private, intimate decisions matters of public interest and then…
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Environmental Law Scholar Wyman Decides to Stay at NYU…
…instead of going to the University of Toronto.
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Arizona Philosophy Makes Offers to Hill, Rosati
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona has made tenured offers to Christopher Hill (philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics and epistemology) at Brown University and Connie Rosati (ethics, philosophy of law) at the University of California at Davis.
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Kant Scholar Kleingeld from Wash U to Leiden
Pauline Kleingeld (Kant, political philosophy), Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has accepted a senior offer from Leiden University, The Netherlands.
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What’s the Real Goal of the “Academic Bill of Rights”?
Let’s listen to Representative Baxley, the Florida sponsor, to find out: While promoting the bill Tuesday, Baxley said a university education should be more than “one biased view by the professor, who as a dictator controls the classroom,” as part of “a misuse of their platform to indoctrinate the next generation with their own views.”…
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Philosopher Merricks Turns Down OSU, Staying at Virginia
Trenton Merricks, best-known for his important work in metaphysics, has turned down the senior offer from Ohio State University, and will remain at the University of Virginia.
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“Beyond the Hart/Dworkin Debate: The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence”: Much Revised Version Now On-Line
Here. There were some 590 downloads of the first version, posted in 2002, which was certainly gratifying, but in fact the final version was very substantially revised, particularly its treatment of the methodology problem (the problem of the methods of legal philosophy). Those who found the earlier version useful might want to at least peruse…
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A Realistic Appraisal of the Nature of the Coming Draft
This is a very informative (long) article; an excerpt: As Charles Moskos, a prominent military sociologist [at Northwestern], said just after 9/11, "We’re in a new kind of war. It’s time for a new kind of draft." The Washington Monthly piece calls it "a 21st century draft." As outlined in the now infamous Selective Service…
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“The Black Book of Communism”
ORIGINALLY POSTED July 20, 2004. ===================================== This book, published by French scholars in 1997, documents the death tolls attributable to communist regimes in different countries. The book is obviously premised on the thought that the fact that these were communist regimes is explanatory: clearly, one could produce similar books like "The Black Book of White…
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New SSRN Download Rankings–by Scholar, and by School
The Social Science Research Network has published two new rankings of both schools and individual scholars (this will be released soon) by the total number of downloads their papers have received from the SSRN site. As a measure of scholarly output and quality, this one has many limitations: SSRN, for example, is utilized disproportionately by…
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More Signs of the Strains on the U.S. Military
Here: The U.S. Army, stung by recruiting shortfalls caused by the Iraq war, has raised the maximum age for new recruits for the part-time Army Reserve and National Guard by five years to 39, officials said on Monday. The Army said the move, a three-year experiment, will add about 22 million people to the pool…
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Philosopher Kail from Edinburgh to Oxford
Peter Kail, an historian of philosophy (whose interests range from Hume and Berkeley to Nietzsche) and philosopher of mind at the University of Edinburgh, has accepted a University Lectureship in Philosophy at Oxford University.
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Yet Another Pacific APA Update
In this morning’s mail from philosopher Phil Gasper: Dear Colleague: This message is going out to about 100 people who either expressed support for the San Francisco Hotel Workers or contacted me directly, or who I was asked to add by someone else. Here are a few follow up items about what is happening this…
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Genocide in Sudan
Reader Brendan Ritchie writes: I am a Canadian student, and an avid reader of your blog. I was wondering if you might mention something about the genocide occuring in the Sudan. There are various websites, and organizations at universities in the US trying to help save the people of Darfur. http://www.darfurgenocide.org/ has information, and a…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii