August 2005
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Philosopher Knobe Profiled in Chronicle of Higher Ed
MOVING TO THE FRONT: see Update. In its annual "rising stars" issue, about top new assistant professors in different fields, The Chronicle of Higher Education has a warm and well-deserved portrait (subscription required, I’m afraid) of Joshua Knobe, who will be starting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this fall, and who…
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Message for Members of the Austin Law & Philosophy Community
I spoke this morning with our JD/PhD student Michael Sevel, who many of you know went back to Gulfport Sunday to help his family. He and his family are safe. The destruction, he reports, is far worse than it even looks in the pictures. He’s not sure just yet when he will make it back…
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The Horrific Hurricane Damage in Mississippi
There is aerial footage here. How utterly horrible and upsetting. I would be deeply grateful to hear from friends and students in this area. Here in Austin we are thinking of you. UPDATE: Tony Iannitelli (UT Law Class of 2001) writes from Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Baton Rouge is physically marked by little other than broken…
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Jonah Goldberg, Moral Monster
It will not be news to regular readers that the know-nothing journalist Jonah Goldberg of the right-wing National Review is morally depraved and deficient in basic human emotive and cognitive capacities–after all, that was obvious when Professor Cole wiped the floor with that pathetic chickenhawk war monger months ago. But in case any irregular readers…
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New International Prize for Work in Legal Theory from the University of Sydney
The Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney has announced a new, and rather lucrative, prize for jurisprudential work in the tradition of Professor Stone: The prize will go to the author or authors of an outstanding published work in the field of jurisprudence which best reflects an approach combining legal theory…
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What International Law Scholars Outside the U.S. Think of U.S. Conduct
When someone remarked that leading academic figures tend to be cowards when it comes to their own regimes, there was much clucking of blogospheric tongues. "Oh no," said the children, "everyone knows that leading academics are critical of George W. Bush." Yes, it was replied, they are (after all, they’re not dumb), but, of course,…
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“The Republican War on Science”
This book needed to be written, and we are fortunate that Chris Mooney, whose fine journalistic work we have noted before, undertook the task.
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“For the Record” Blog…
…has come back to life, now that its proprietors, philosophers Jessica Wilson and Benjamin Hellie, have resettled in Toronto. Check them out!
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Philosopher Goldie from King’s College/London to Manchester
Peter Goldie (philosophy of mind, ethics, aesthetics), who is perhaps best-known for his important work on the emotions, has moved from King’s College, London to the University of Manchester, where he has taken up the Samuel Hall Chair in Philosophy and will also be Head of Department. Manchester has recently re-established Philosophy as an independent…
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Misunderstanding Philosophy of Biology: The Case of Professor Lloyd and Female Orgasm
Is the clitoral orgasm in women favored by natural selection? Apparently not, according to Professor Elisabeth Lloyd, a leading philosopher of biology at Indiana University, Bloomington. What is revealing about the culture of the blogosphere is the outpouring of ignorant denunciations this has produced. Professor Lloyd responds generously and patiently here (for more generously than…
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Thus Spoke Robert Lowell
“The crass commercial vulgarity of our country goes beyond belief. Sometimes I think we will all die fighting some terrible Fascist reform movement.” –from a letter by the poet Robert Lowell several decades ago, precise date not known
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Good Wishes for Safety…
…to friends, colleagues, and readers in the parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida who may be affected by the horrific hurricane moving in this evening and tomorrow morning. You will no doubt have more important things to do than check this blog, but if you do visit in the next few days, please do…
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Reality Check: Universities are the Most Intellectually Diverse Institutions in American Society
People who should know better, or who have ulterior motives, are spreading the usual tiresome falsehoods about universities not being "intellectually diverse." Some who spread these lies either aren’t in universities or aren’t serious scholars, so have no idea what really goes on in genuine intellectual disciplines. Some have axes to grind because of their…
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Friday Poem: “Audience”
Audience The soul is a fictionThe body soon will beAnd all of remembranceIs sorrow’s invention Existence betrays usBefore we beginOur lives premonitionOf void and negation This to my grandsonLying chin to chinWho listens intentlyThen grins his toothless grin 4/17-4/19, 7/12/97, 7/5/98 Copyright 1998 by Maurice Leiter Reprinted with permission.
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…