October 2005
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Protests Against Boalt Professor Yoo’s Role in Torture Memos Continue at Berkeley
Story here. UPDATE: Armen Adzhemyan, a 2L at Boalt, writes: The protests are not really continuing since they have nothing to do with the protests about ayear and a half ago when the memos were first released. Those were by graduating 3Ls. This is by an organization determined to disrupt campuses across the US. To…
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Yale Law Journal Blog
Here’s an interesting and potentially valuable use of a blog: the Yale Law Journal has set up a kind of blog site for discussion and comments on articles published in the Journal itself.
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Hurricane Katrina and Mississippi
An informative and gripping eyewitness account, including pictures.
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Not Much New Before Wednesday
I’ll be giving a talk at the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club tomorrow (topic: "Nietzsche’s Theory of the Will"), so probably won’t add anything new to the blog before Wednesday.
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Human-to-Human Transmission of Bird Flu in Indonesia?
Story and analysis here. (Thanks to Matt Davidson for the pointer.) I can’t vouch for the reliability of this site, though it doesn’t seem to be the work of a crackpot. I’ve opened comments, if anyone has insight into the validity of the analysis or the credibility of the site of which it is part,…
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A new blog of interest
I don’t generally do blog announcements, but I do want to call the attention of readers to a new blog by Ruchira Paul, whose thoughtful and interesting correspondence (as well as link suggestions) I have benefitted from for a number of months now. I am pleased to see she has now started her own blog,…
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Philosophy Student Turned War Resister
Interesting story here. (Thanks to Matthew Mullins for the pointer.)
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USC Law Dean Spitzer to Step Down at End of Academic Year
Matthew Spitzer, Dean of the law school at the University of Southern California since 2000, will step down at the end of this academic year. Six years is an above average term of service in the onerous world of law deaning, though not quite the remarkable twenty years of his precedessor as Dean, Scott Bice. …
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Postmodernism: A Philosopher’s Perspective
Keith DeRose (Philosophy, Yale) has posted an interesting set of remarks on postmodernism. A short excerpt from the start of section 4: My duties on humanities divisional committees have involved me in reading quite a bit of material by (what I at least take to be) postmodern writers. I would have to classify a lot…
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Blasphemy Still a Crime in Afghanistan
Details here.
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India’s Brush with Fascist Theocracy
Among the interesting postings at the University of Chicago Law School’s new faculty blog is the item by Martha Nussbaum on the near-disastrous effects of religious extremism on Indian democracy. Regular readers of Arundhati Roy will be familiar with much of this tale of woe, but it is useful that Professor Nussbaum introduces the topic…
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Many thanks to William Edmundson…
…for an excellent week of postings on a fascinating range of topics. I hope to have him back again before too long. Our next guest bloggers will be the brothers Stanley, Jason (of Rutgers Philosophy) and Marcus (of Case Western Economics), who will be returning in November…precise dates to be announced shortly.
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Ronald Dworkin Interprets Morality
Legal and political philosophers of recent times have dreamt of bagging bigger game: morality itself. John Rawls wondered whether his theoretical apparatus might capture not only political justice but all of morality-–but he quickly concluded that it could not. Much of his later career was a process of careful downsizing his earlier, more open-ended project. …
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Indictment Pool
An indictment pool is up. There are doubts about the reliability of prediction markets; but not much of the weekend remains and–whatever happens–the coming week will be eventful. If you have access to today’s (Sunday, Oct. 23) New York Times, and are still wondering why we are in Iraq, you should read Frank Rich’s "Karl…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that