August 2006
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Some Law School News That Might Interest Some Philosophers (Leiter)
The other Brian Leiter has a couple of items that might interest some philosophy readers. One is a list of visiting law professors at the very top law schools this coming academic year (which includes a few folks known to philosophically-minded readers, such as Martha Nussbaum, Cass Sunstein, Andrew Koppelman, and Leslie Green, among others);…
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Supreme Court Clerkship Placement 1996 through 2006 Terms
Here. From the introduction: Earlier studies of Supreme Court Clerkship placement covered a longer period of time (1991-2005); this study covers the past decade, and so permits some sense of which schools are increasing their success at securing Supreme Court clerkships for their best graduates, and which are having less success. NYU, Notre Dame, and…
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Friday Poem: “Liberation Theology”
Liberation Theology Open the gates and leave your lifeForget what you were taught to loveClose your ears to dalliancesPlay and entertainmentWhy pass your life at a child’s gameSurrounded by the doom of numbersWalk out of your life as out of a caveFor although you were a stoneNow you are a flame Put aside the language…
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Visiting Professors, 2006-07
MOVING TO FRONT FROM JULY 10 (with a couple of corrections, but mostly so those who missed it during the summer might see it) Below are listed visiting professors at the top six law schools by almost all measures of faculty quality–which are the schools that also typically have the most visiting professors on a…
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The War-Mongering on Iran (Leiter)
You will want to read historian Juan Cole’s informative post about the Republican "report" on Iran intelligence.
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Analytic vs. Continental (yet again) (J. Stanley)
In many of his posts about the matter, Brian argues that there is no such thing as analytic philosophy. In large part, I agree. Most of what is said about the putative difference is from an historical, sociological, and philosophical perspective, sheer nonsense (if Shoemaker is an analytic philosopher, so is Husserl). But I do…
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More on Bush, Iran and the “Nuclear Option” (Leiter)
Bill’s excellent piece this morning on the latest war-mongering surrounding Iran brought to mind a post from last April that might also be of interest; from the end of that item: Speaking of moral depravity and craven villainy, the other morning on National Public Radio (a "liberal" media outlet, as the ideologically deluded in America…
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All the Options Are On the Table (Edmundson)
As the fallout from the failed Israeli-US campaign in Lebanon spreads, the risk grows that it will become radioactive. The ceasefire there is unstable; and Ahmadinejad’s remarks about Israel could not be more obnoxious. Now, Republicans in and close to the White House and Congress are demanding that the intelligence services produce a pretext for…
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What Factors Hurt a Teaching Candidate’s Prospects?
A law professor writes: In the spirit of your post on factors that count most (in favor) of a candidate, it might be time to talk about what will hurt a candidate most. And I think one of those is being from a “lesser” school in the same geographic market. I’ve seen a number of…
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Soames on “Analytic Philosophy,” and the Special Case of Philosophy of Law (Leiter)
I am grateful to Jason for calling attention to the lovely, lucid, and synoptic essay by Scott Soames (USC) on "Analytic Philosophy in America," which I read with appreciation yesterday evening. I concur with Jason’s recommendation that this is an essay that educated non-philosophers ought to read if they want to have an idea what…
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China Acts on Funeral Strippers (Wolff)
From the BBC, via my colleague Michael Otsuka: Five people have been detained in China for running striptease send-offs at funerals, state media say. The once-common events are held to boost the number of mourners, as large crowds are seen as a mark of honour. But the arrests, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, could…
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Soames on Analytic Philosophy in America (J. Stanley)
Scott Soames has just posted a paper about the development of analytic philosophy in America over the last century. It’s enjoyable reading for everyone, but particularly recommended for non-philosophers who seek an account that is highly accurate and broad in scope about the sociological, historical, and philosophical developments that have led us to the current…
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Guyer on Kant in the Routledge Philosophers Series (Leiter)
I’m delighted to announce the newest volume in the Routledge Philosophers series that I edit: Kant by Paul Guyer of the University of Pennsylvania. If Guyer is not the greatest living Kant scholar in the world, then he is one of just two or three philosophers who could justifiably lay claim to that distinction. I’m…
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“From Legal Realism to Naturalized Jurisprudence” (Leiter)
I’ve posted the penultimate draft of the introduction to my collection of papers on Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy, which Oxford University Press will publish (simultaneously in both cloth and paper, happily) in 2007 (during the Spring, I hope). The introduction, "From Legal Realism to Naturalized Jurisprudence," gives…
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On Norman Geras and the proposition that “there was no persuasive moral case against the Iraq war” (Leiter)
Moving to front from earlier this summer… NOTE: I started writing this quite some time ago, but the prospect of my impending summer blogging hiatus inspired me to finish it. Professor Geras, sadly, continues to shill for war. More importantly, the argument of his discussed here is symptomatic of a kind of childish moral reasoning…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that