January 2007
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Pyke Philosophy Photos on the Web (J. Stanley)
Many philosophers have on their shelves a copy of Philosophers, the 1993 book of photographs of philosophers with the famous photograph of Anscombe and Geach on the cover. Steve Pyke, the creator of that work, is now a staff photographer for the New Yorker. In the ensuing years, he has continued the project, and has…
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Dennis from Rutgers-Camden to the Drexel Deanship
Roger Dennis, Provost at Rutgers University, Camden (and, previously, Dean of the Law School there), has accepted appointment as the Inaugural Dean of the new law school at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The Drexel press release is here.
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The Coming War with Iran, Yet Again (Leiter)
Even the mainstream media has been picking up the war-mongering signals from Bush & his bestiary of madmen. This transcript in Russian of remarks by Bush, I am told, is even clearer. I would be grateful if someone who reads Russian could post a translation (at least of the key parts) in the comments. UPDATE: …
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For only US$335,000 you can get a flat in the best part of London….
…but it’s only 77 square feet, "slightly bigger than a prison cell and without electricity." How are London academics coping with the insane cost of living?
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Divers from Sheffield Back to Leeds
John Divers (metaphysics, philosophy of language and logic) at the University of Sheffield will return to the University of Leeds next August to take up a Chair in the Department of Philosophy there.
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Lichtman from Chicago to UCLA
Douglas Gary Lichtman, a leading young expert on issues at the intersection of law and technology (including intellectual property and telecommunications) at the University of Chicago Law School, has accepted an offer from the law school at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he and his family have personal ties. That’s a big…
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In Memoriam: John Arthur (1946-2007)
Professor Arthur, a well-known legal and political philosopher, taught for nearly two decades at the State University of New York at Binghamton. A memorial notice from a local newspaper is here.
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Ehrenreich on “The Suppression of Collective Joy” (Leiter)
This sounds like an interesting book; an excerpt from the article, which is largely quoting Erhrenreich (I’ve omitted some of the pop evolutionary psychology): "When Europeans fanned out across the globe from the 15th to 19th centuries conquering people, they found rituals and festivities going on everywhere from Polynesia to Alaska to Sub-Saharan Africa to…
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Christensen from Vermont to Brown
David Christensen (epistemology, philosophy of science) at the University of Vermont has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Brown University, to start this fall. Christensen is the third senior faculty member in the last half-dozen years at Vermont to be hired away by a major PhD program: Hilary Kornblith (epistemology) moved…
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In Memoriam: Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J. (1920-2007)
Georgetown’s memorial notice is here. Father Drinan was a longtime member of the Georgetown Law faculty, former Dean of the law school at Boston College, as well as a former Congressman and leading human rights advocate.
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Judge Posner on Plagiarism
His latest book is reviewed by English philosopher Nigel Warburton here.
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What a Surprise (J. Stanley)
Some systematic confirmation of the obvious. This research continues earlier work showing similar findings for African-Americans (available here).
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A New Blog Devoted to McDowell’s Philosophy…
…here. Take that Jerry Fodor!
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Should Faculty Up for Tenure Apply for Jobs Elsewhere? (Leiter)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY TO ENCOURAGE MORE COMMENTS A tenure-track faculty member at a good department recently wrote to me, reporting that a tenured colleague elsewhere thought "it was standard to go on the job market the year that one was up for tenure whatever one thought of one’s chances": His reasons [for saying…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii