February 2006
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Blog Stat Milestone (Leiter)
A typical Monday (at least in recent weeks) will have about 5,000 visits to the blog, but yesterday it topped 12,000 (an all-time high for a single day), as dozens of blogs linked to the item from Sunday about Wieseltier’s embarrassingly ignorant review of Dennett, including several highly trafficked sites–DeLong, Yglesisas, Pharyngula, and, most importantly…
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Hires, Offers by Penn
The University of Pennsylvania Law School has made a tenured appointment of Cary Coglianese (administrative law, regulatory law and policy), who is currently Associate Professor in the Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University. Penn has also made a tenured offer to Stephanos Bibas (criminal law and procedure) at the University of Iowa, who…
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Permanent US Bases in Iraq (Edmundson)
Did you know that the US has long planned a permanent military presence in Iraq? And that billions of dollars are being spent to build permanent US "super" bases housing tens of thousands of personnel? These facts have never been made plain in the mainstream media–and are ever less likely to be visible through the…
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Gendler and Szabo to Yale
Tamar Szabo Gendler (PhD Harvard 1996) and Zoltan Gendler Szabo (PhD MIT 1995), currently associate professors at Cornell University, have accepted the tenured offers from Yale University. In addition to her appointment in the Department of Philosophy, Prof. Gendler will also be the eventual director of the Cognitive Science Program. This is great news for…
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How to Respond to Charges of Media Bias (Hellie)
The great reporter Helen Thomas, of roughly 50 years of distinguished service to UPI, one of the very few members of the gaggle with the tenacity, intelligence, and moral compass to confront the slimy McLellan and describe his evasions and lies as such, was subjected to a really obnoxious and abusive line of questioning by…
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Who Are the Armstrongs? (Hellie)
And could Cheney have been plotting war during his hunting trip? Details here.
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Utah Makes Tenured Offer to Philosopher Vargas
Manuel Vargas (ethics, philosophy of action, Latin American Philosophy), currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, has received a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah.
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Philosopher Liz Harman from NYU to Princeton
Elizabeth Harman (ethics, metaphysics), currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from Princeton University, where she will half in the Department of Philosophy and half in the Center for Human Values. (Her father, Gilbert Harman–known for important contributions in many fields, including ethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of…
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Arar v. Ashcroft: Contract Torture and State Secrecy (Edmundson)
The Alien Tort Claims Act was enacted in 1789 to assure a federal judicial forum to anyone seeking redress for a wrong "committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States." Congress in 1991 passed the Torture Victim Prevention Act further to assure that victims of torture or extra-judicial…
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Craig from Indiana/Indianapolis to Florida State
Robin Craig (environmental law, water law, federalism), currently Professor of Law at Indiana University, Indianapolis, has accepted a senior offer from the Florida State University College of Law, where she joins an already strong group in the environmental/administrative areas, including Jim Rossi, J.B. Ruhl, and Mark Seidenfeld.
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Berkeley, Irvine make bids for Sherrilyn Roush
The department of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley and the Department of Logic and the Philosophy of Science at the University of California at Irvine have voted out tenured offers to Sherrilyn Roush (PhD Harvard 1999), who is currently an assistant professor at Rice University and author of the recent book, Tracking…
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Why review a book of philosophy when you can sneer at it? (Leiter)
The New York Times has done it again: they’ve enlisted an ignorant reviewer to review a philosophical book. The reviewer is Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor at The New Republic. The book is Daniel Dennett’s latest book, a "naturalistic" account of religious belief. Whatever Mr. Wieseltier knows about philosophy or science, he effectively conceals in…
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Colorado Makes Offer to Kentucky’s Monton
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEB. 13.–SEE UPDATE The Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder has made a tenured offer to Bradley Monton (philosophy of physics, epistemology) at the University of Kentucky. Colorado also recently made a senior appointment of Graeme Forbes (philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics) from Tulane University. UPDATE: …
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Cook from MSU to Georgia
Julian A. Cook III (criminal law and procedure), currently an Associate Professor at Michigan State University College of Law, has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at the University of Georgia.
I have solved complex math problems without any ‘inner speech’. Having solved a problem, one may then translate the solution…