June 2005
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More Apt Words for Bush from the Mother of a Dead Soldier
Cynthia Sheehan strikes again; an excerpt: The president of Gold Star Families for Peace, a mother who lost a son in Iraq, criticized the United States’ "illegal and unjust war" yesterday during an interfaith rally in Lexington. Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., accused President Bush of lying to the nation about a war which has…
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Arizona also Makes Bid for Political Philosopher Gaus
In addition to the offer to Shaun Nichols, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona has also made an offer to distinguished political philosopher Gerald Gaus at Tulane University. If Gaus moves, this will not only bolster Arizona’s status as one of the top programs in political philosophy in the country, it will…
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Can Bush Be (Constitutionally) Impeached?
Four constitutional scholars comment here on Ralph Nader’s proposal. A few observations: Mark Tushnet (Law, Georgetown) writes: I don’t want to engage the factual claims about the meaning of the Downing Street memo. Let’s assume that the memo accurately reports the facts and that a reasonable person could conclude that Bush administration officials lied so…
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Yale Pursuing Historian of Philosophy Winkler at Wellesley
The Department of Philosophy at Yale University has made a senior offer to Kenneth Winkler, a distinguished historian of modern philosophy, whose interests nicely complement those of Michael Della Rocca at Yale. If Winkler makes the move (he recently turned down an offer from Boston University), this would certainly make Yale one of the top…
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Arizona Makes Bid for Philosopher Nichols at Utah
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona has made an offer to Shaun Nichols at the University of Utah, who has been one of the leaders in recent years (along with John Doris [Wash U/St. Louis], Gilbert Harman [Princeton], Joshua Knobe [North Carolina], Stephen Stich [Rutgers], and others) in bringing cognitive science and…
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Washington Post Mangles Story on Congressional Hearing about Downing Street Memos
Someone observed that not all journalists are malevolent morons, but a lot of them sure are.
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Mother Whose Son Was Killed in Iraq Testifies at Congressional Hearings on Downing Street Memos
Full text here; an excerpt: My son, Spc Casey Austin Sheehan, was KIA in Sadr City Baghdad on 04/04/04. He was in Iraq for only 2 weeks before L. Paul Bremer inflamed the Shi’ite Militia into a rebellion which resulted in the deaths of Casey and 6 other brave soldiers who were tragically killed in…
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“Faith challenges the underpinnings of legal education.”
So said Dean David Rudenstine of Cardozo Law School (which is part of a religious university, Yeshiva University). Story here; an excerpt: In a provocative address last week to some 200 undergraduate counselors from northeastern universities, the dean of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law warned of a "collision course with democratic order and…
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Friday Poem: “We Know the News”
We Know the News We know the newsIt is not necessary to publish itWe know that humans are beastsUp close or at a distanceFace to face or faceless We carry this knowledge most of our daysSometimes it bends usSometimes it drives men madSometimes it gives pleasureFor we are after all beasts Children do…
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On Not Understanding Science
Eugene Volokh (Law, UCLA) opines on evolutionary biology and religion, and Pharyngula correctly notes that most of the discussion is a tissue of confusions and mistakes. (Some of the comments at Pharyngula’s site are also rather funny.) What interests me in particular here is what this display tells us about the limited understanding of science…
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Political Philosopher Larmore from Chicago to Brown
Political philosopher Charles Larmore at the University of Chicago has accepted the offer from Brown University, where he will start in fall 2006. At Brown, he will join, in the area of political philosophy, David Estlund (Philosophy) and John Tomasi (Political Science, and an affiliated member of the philosophy faculty). Although Chicago will continue to…
Well now we know you CANT find arbitrarily close approximations in all cases because there is no true function to…