April 2005
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Top Producers of Law Teachers in the Last Two Years
Utilizing the data that Larry Solum has compiled for two years on where newly hired law teachers earned their first degree (here and here), I’ve compiled a list of all schools that sent at least three graduates in to law teaching during this time period. Next to the name of each school appears the number…
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A Parable on Justice and the Market Power of “Star” Academics
Jon Kvanvig (Philosophy, Missouri) writes: "Below is something philosophers don’t seem to have thought about very much, especially those who get offers to move from one institution to another. The Pacific debacle made me think more about the conditions of those not as lucky as those who actually get offers from other institutions (though they…
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Law, Metaphysics, God, et al.
Illuminating review of Steve Smith’s new book Law’s Quandary here.
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Business Law Expert Tung from Loyola/LA to Emory
Fred Tung, a specialist in both domestic and international corporate law and securities regulation, bankruptcy, and commercial law, at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at Emory University, where he will start in the fall.
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Is the Internet Hurting Scholarship?
Interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Ed; an excerpt: David M. Levy, a computer scientist who loves technology and gets more than 100 e-mail messages a day, makes a point of unplugging from the Internet one day each week to clear his head. Even so, with all the e-mail messages flooding in, with academic…
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Ann Coulter on the Cover of Time Magazine…
…as she should have been. UPDATE: Time‘s whitewash on this sick woman is demolished here.
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The Coming Military Draft, again
When putatively "liberal" publications start publishing arguments in favor of restoring a military draft, you know that mischief is going mainstream. Basically sensible, if somewhat unworldly, colleagues occasionally chide me on the subject of a return to the draft: "It would be the end of the Republicans," they say, "The country would never tolerate it." …
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The New York Times, “Liberal” Newspaper: The Case of Professor Massad
A trip down memory lane here; an excerpt: The New York Times has never been a very courageous newspaper in times of political hysteria and threats to civil liberties. When Bertrand Russell was denied the right to fill his appointment at CCNY in 1940, following an ugly campaign by a rightwing Catholic faction opposed to…
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Parents of Public School Children: Watch out for books from “Renaissance Learning, Inc.”
Eric Muller (Law, North Carolina) has the details on the books published by this company which proseltyze children under the cover of being academic books. He also has contact details for Renaissance Learning (what a name! a branch of the Discovery [sic] Institute perhaps?), and is collecting information on public schools that purchase these books.
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Just what the world needs!
Another journal devoted to moral, political, and legal philosophy! Well, in fact, this one is importantly different: it’s an on-line journal, modelled, it appears, on the apparently successful Philosophers’ Imprint (which mostly, but not exclusivley, publishes work in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind), and it has all the requisites for success going…
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Philosopher DeRose Declines Notre Dame, To Remain at Yale
It looks like Keith DeRose (epistemology, philosophy of language, early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion) will be at Yale for the foreseeable future, as he has now officially declined the offer from the University of Notre Dame–a big break for Yale, needless to say. This comes on the heels of offers declined by DeRose over…
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Harvard’s “Professor of Torture”: “shocking in [his] audacity”
Details here; an excerpt (footnotes omitted): In a recent talk at York University in Toronto, Canada,..in the course of arguing that Israeli authorities no longer torture Palestinians, [Alan] Dershowitz claimed he had a long conversation with the Israeli human rights organization, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), in which PCATI not only conceded that…
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Philosopher Gert from Texas A&M to North Carolina/Greensboro
Heather Gert (medical ethics, philosophy of language), currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Greensboro Department, as I understand it, may be starting an M.A. program; given the quality of the faculty, they ought…
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In Memoriam
Richard Popkin (1923-2005) The distinguished historian of philosophy has died; links to memorial notices will be added as soon as they are available. UPDATE: The New York Times obituary is here.
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Raz (and others) on Reasons
I thought this was an uncommonly informative review.
I came across this article today. https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-investigators-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477 Apparently, the (irresponsible) use of AI was partly to blame for the American…