July 2006
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A Cease Fire That Will Last? (Nadelhoffer)
If only innocent Lebanese children would quit getting in the way of Israel’s attempt to entirely destroy Hezbollah (see here and here for details)–perhaps the ‘lasting’ cease-fire the Bushies are after would be possible (see here). In the meantime, it’s worth pointing out how curious the administration’s line on this really is. You see, it’s…
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Personal Carbon Trading (Wolff)
Away from my computer last week, I thought I had come up with a new idea to save the world. Suppose everyone is given the right to buy only a certain number of gallons of petrol/gasoline a month; somewhat less than average current usage. You can use your allowance, or if you would prefer, sell…
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Bush’s “Authoritarian Project” (Leiter)
It’s nice to see a grown-up use the appropriate language to describe what’s going on: Over the last few months a series of revelations have confirmed what should have been obvious a long time ago: the Bush administration and the movement it leads have been engaged in an authoritarian project, an effort to remove all…
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New Canada Research Chairs
One philosopher has been awarded a Canada Research Chair this year: Mohan Matthen (philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, ancient philosophy) at the University of Toronto has been awarded a Tier 1 Chair. A complete list of philosophers who hold Tier 1 or Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs is here. UPDATE: Richard Zach (Calgary) points…
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Submitting to Law Reviews
Daniel Solove and Scott Moss have put together useful information here and here.
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In Memoriam: D.Z. Phillips
Professor Phillips, the well-known Wittgenstein-inspired philosopher of religion, died earlier this week. I have not yet seen an on-line obituary, but there is an informative profile here. (Thanks to Matthew Mullins for calling this to my attention; his own comments on the death of Professor Phillips are here.)
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Belated Announcement of NEH Fellowships
A reader points out that I missed these National Endowment for the Humanities awards for 2006. Lots of philosophers were winners here, and on a rather wide range of topics: Ned Block (NYU): "How the Mind-Body Problem Can Be Empirical" Steven Horst (Wesleyan): "Cognitive Pluralism: Unities and Disunities of Knowledge and the Mind" Monte Johnson…
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A Sharp Comment on the Israeli Attack on Lebanon and US Public Discourse (Leiter)
Here: In this country [the U.S.] the the best we’re gonna get from the pundits on any side is that Israel’s actions are a brutal PR disaster. Conservatives, being not only hypocritical but dim, will disagree. And that pretty well sums up both the mainstream news media and the mainstream blogosphere.
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Religious Reasons and State Power
Against my better judgment–but since folks have been e-mailing me their comments in this debate–I’m going to say something about the rather unsatisfying discussion going on at several law-related blogs prompted by Geoffrey Stone’s comments about President Bush’s veto of funding for stem cell research. Professor Stone wrote: In vetoing the bill that would have…
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ACLS Fellowships Announced
I may be a bit late on this one (not sure when it was announced), but the 2006 winners of American Council of Learned Society Fellowships have been named. Only one philosopher was a winner this year (out of sixty awards): Steven Crowell from Rice University for a project on "Heidegger and the Claims of…
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USC’s Dudziak Wins ACLS Fellowship
The legal historian Mary Dudziak at the University of Southern California Law School was the only law professor to win a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for 2006. The ACLS will support her project on "Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall and the Constitution of Kenya."
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Shun from Toronto to Chinese U of Hong Kong
Kwong-Loi Shun, a leading expert on Chinese philosophy, who is currently Vice-President and Principal of the University of Toronto at Scarborough (as well as Professor of Philosophy), has accepted a Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, effective this fall.
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Alito Clerks for 2006 Term?
I know that Justice Alito has at least two clerks for the 2006 term lined up: Mike Lee (BYU ’97) and Chris Paolella (Harvard ’99). Does anyone know who his other two clerks are, and where they went to law school? You can either e-mail me or post that information below (preferably with a source). …
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Academic Freedom Revisited (Nadelhoffer)
A few weeks ago I posted something (see here) about the showdown in Wisconsin over academic freedom that was sparked by Kevin Barrett’s suggestion on a radio talk show that 9/11 was an inside job (Barrett is an adjunct instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison). At the time I pointed out that Representative Steve Nass–who…
I wonder how feasible and time-intensive it would be to make it a standard policy check for undisclosed AI usage.…