September 2006
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Once a Racist, Always a Racist? (Leiter)
So it seems.
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Friday Poem: “As I Began”
As I Began As I began so I am my ideology intact my fears remain a fact the difference is my liberated tone from knowing proof’s no longer asked or needed I’ve stepped aside neat in my disquietude The dishes in my rack will last me out a book some bread paper and a pen…
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Reaction Formation Watch (Leiter)
Story here: Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned from Congress on Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page…. Campaign aides had previously acknowledged that the Republican congressman e-mailed the former Capitol page five times, but had said there was nothing inappropriate about the exchange. The page…
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Regime Change (Edmundson)
According to Bruce Ackerman (Yale, Law) the "antiterror" legislation that the President will soon sign with great fanfare "is a real shocker": The compromise legislation…authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by…
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The smell of sulphur (Edmundson)
Global warming is known to the State of California to be bad for us. But how bad can it be? Evidence has accumulated that global warming–rather than asteroid impacts–was responsible for some of the planet’s prehistoric mass extinctions. The hypothesized mechanism involves an enormous outgassing of hydrogen sulphide from the oceans. Details here.
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Harvard Law School’s New Seminar in Legal Theory and Methodology
Harvard Law School has apparently introduced a new seminar for their SJD students on "Legal Theory and Methodology" in order (as Orly Lobel puts it) "to provide students who are just beginning their dissertation work foundations in canons of legal thought." Professor Lobel has the details, including the syllabus, here.
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Philosopher Kurt Smith Pulverizes Pathological Liar Horowitz (Leiter)
Nice account of their recent "debate" at Bloomsburg University here: David Horowitz, the former wacky-left editor of Ramparts magazine turned wacky right smear-monger and foundation pimp, came to Bloomsburg University in rural central Pennsylvania to pick up a $7000 check and spout lies and misinformation in a debate with local college philosophy professor Kurt Smith….…
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A New Approach to College Rankings?
Blog Emperor Caron has the details.
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What is it like to be treated like a bat? (Edmundson)
Over at Generous Orthodoxy Think Tank, Keith DeRose (Yale, Philosophy) ponders "Our ‘Rough Treatment’ Technique of the Day." Comments open.
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Pathways to torture (Wilson)
HR 6054, the ‘Military Trials for Enemy Combatants’ bill, is presently scheduled to be brought before the House of Representatives. Certain Republican senators and Bush had a minor tussle over whether, as Bush demanded, the legislation would formally reinterpret U.S. compliance with the Geneva Conventions. On the face of it, the compromise legislation does not…
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“A mindless brute for President” (Leiter)
Ruchira Paul comments.
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Universities and Class (J. Stanley)
As most non-Americans realize, often, when an American tells you that she attended Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, or Yale as an undergraduate, she is not doing so to give you information about her educational attainment. She is rather informing you of the privileged status of her birthposition. This article, basically a review of Daniel Golden’s book…
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Kukla and Manning from Carleton to South Florida
Rebecca Kukla (philosophy of medicine, epistemology, 18th-century philosophy, feminist philosophy) and Richard Manning (metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of language and mind, early modern philosophy), both at Carleton University, have accepted senior offers from the University of South Florida, to start in fall 2007.
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Do Students Choose Law Schools with an Eye to Law Teaching?
Nancy Rapoport, former Dean of the law schools at the University of Houston and the University of Nebraska, writes with advice to law school Appointments Committees: People choose to attend particular law schools for all sorts of reasons, but I don’t know too many who choose a law school based on whether or not that…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that