September 2005
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Many kinds of freedom…
…as we are usefully reminded here: Although every person and every people has the right to a healthy life and to enjoy the privilege of a long and useful existence, the richest, most developed societies, ruled by consumerism and a thirst for profit, have made the health service into a common business, inaccessible to the…
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Hurricane Rita and Texas
Thanks to those who have inquired about the situation here in Austin in relation to the impending hurricane. The way things look this morning, it appears that Austin and Dallas will perhaps get some rain and wind on Saturday, but nothing out of the ordinary–both cites will be too far from the center of the…
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AALS Annual Meeting Moving from New Orleans to Washington, D.C.
Information here. Hopefully, the AALS will have the decency to put the 2007 annual meeting back in New Orleans.
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SkyNews Inadvertently Tells the Truth about Bush
This is very funny indeed.
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Philosopher Nelson from Irvine to UNC-Chapel Hill
Alan Nelson (history of modern philosophy; history and philosophy of science; history of analytic philosophy), currently at the University of California at Irvine, has accepted the senior offer from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Summary of Major Philosophy Faculty Moves for 2004-05
This is the annual compilation of major (tenured or equivalent) faculty moves involving PhD or MA programs since the last PGR survey (fall 2004), for the benefit of students using the PGR in choosing graduate schools this academic year. This list includes only faculty moves that were not reflected in the faculty lists for the…
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Economics: the Pseudo-Science even Economists Don’t Understand
This is quite bizarre. My general impression has always been that economists are fairly analytically acute, the ideological peculiarities of their discipline notwithtstanding. I wonder whether there isn’t some other explanation.
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Why the “Intelligent Design” Con Plays So Well
Here’s the answer: American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science…
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U.S. “a terrorist state”
And he didn’t even mention that the United States is the only country to have been found guilty of terrorism by the World Court (the charges were brought, justifiably, by Nicaragua): Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez…littered his speech to the UN world summit with anti-US comments which were strongly applauded…. Chavez told the UN General Assembly…
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Don’t forget Mississippi!
Hurricane Katrina wreaked horrific damage along the Gulf Coast of the United States, but most of the media attention has been on New Orleans, when, in fact, the full force of the storm hit the coast of Mississippi: commentary here.
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A Month in Pictures from Iraq
Once again, those who voted for the criminal war monger Bush have a moral obligation to view all these pictures, over breakfast.
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Looking for a place to stay in Italy?
John Gardner (Jurisprudence, Oxford) calls my attention to a new country hotel run by his brother David, famed Florentine restauranteur. Check it out!
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Another New Orleans Casualty: Poor Thomas Hobbes Falls Into the Hands of Right-Wing Shills
A good example is here, and John Protevi (French Studies, LSU) sends the following apt comments in response: Rich Lowry, one of the new breed of empty suits masquerading as a conservative pundit, does the utterly expected and, taking rumor and sensationalist media coverage for fact, cites the "massive lawlessness" in New Orleans in the…
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…