January 2007
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Friday Poem: “Expectation”
Expectation It was all a mistake Lines around the building Phones ringing without rest Mailbags in the doorway Not to mention faxes And the internet And we responsible for the records Sitting at our desks Confounded by the fuss Unauthorized We denied all callers Refused admittance to the crowd Opened no envelopes Pulled the plug…
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New NEH Awards to Philosophers
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced its Fellowships for University and College Teachers. A good year, it seems, for philosophers! Those who won support are Jonathan Adler (Brooklyn College/CUNY); Lisa Downing (Ohio State); Alan Goldman (William & Mary); Paul Horwich (NYU); Alfred Mele (Florida State); Dennis Sepper (Dallas); and Iain Thomson (New Mexico). …
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How Do Women and Minorities Fare in the Market for New Law Teachers?
Tom Bell (Chapman) looks at some recent AALS data, and argues that it "suggests" that "in terms of hiring, women and minorities enjoy significant advantages." Comments are open at Professor Bell’s site.
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Ted Nugent Comes to Texas… (Leiter)
…and embarrasses the (already embarrassing) Governor. A grown-up might have anticipated this problem.
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Longtime Faculty Member Paul to be New Dean at U Conn
Jeremy Paul, a longtime faculty member at the University of Connecticut Law School, has been appointed as the new Dean. U Conn’s press release is here.
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Rice Makes Bid for Leading Aristotle Scholar Rapp from Germany
The Department of Philosophy at Rice University–which is looking to fill two Chairs this year–has voted out an offer to Christof Rapp at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Rapp is a leading Aristotle scholar, who also works in ethics and metaphysics.
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Scholars affirm congressional war powers; UK chief prosecutor affirms police power (Edmundson)
A group of leading constitutional and legal scholars has endorsed a letter to leaders of Congress, (drafted by my colleague Neil Kinkopf) reminding them of their extensive powers over the conduct of the Iraq war. The diverse group includes Bruce Ackerman (Yale), Ronald Dworkin (NYU and UCL), Richard Epstein (Chicago), and–in spirit at least–James Madison,…
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Comparative Law School Rankings
This site lines up a bunch of different rankings–U.S. News, some of mine, Gourman, Insider’s Guide, etc.–side-by-side, which makes for some interesting comparisons, even allowing for the rather different criteria (and different dates) of these various ranking sources. (I can’t vouch for the rest of this site, however; the few "school profiles" I looked at…
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Get your own Metaphysicians!
The Department of Philosophy at Princeton University has voted out offers to Ted Sider (Rutgers) and Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers).
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Gallanis from Washington & Lee to Minnesota
The legal historian Thomas Gallanis at Washington & Lee University has accepted a senior offer from the University of Minnesota Law School.
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Weinberg on Dawkins (Leiter)
The physicist Steven Weinberg here at UT Austin has a review in the TLS of the much-maligned Dawkins book The God Delusion. Weinberg makes a different, and interesting, criticism: Where I think Dawkins goes wrong is that, like Henry V after Agincourt, he does not seem to realize the extent to which his side has…
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Another Philosophy Blog Enters the Fray…
…this one hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Florida, with a particular focus on philosophical events etc. in Florida.
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Hernandez from Rutgers-Newark to George Washington
Tanya Hernandez (comparative race relations, critical race theory) at Rutgers University, Newark has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at George Washington University. She is the second faculty member at the Rutgers-Newark law school hired away by George Washington this year; the other was Neil Buchanan (tax).
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Blog Watch (Leiter)
The Accidental Blogger is covering anti-Indian racism in Britain, "right-wing psychoanalysis," and the machinations of the Bushistas in the fake war on terror.
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“The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2006” (Leiter)
The reader who sent me this list summed it up accurately: "very crazy, very funny." (I have to warn that a quarter of their targets I’ve never even heard of.) With some justice, they name the far right Arizona Senator John McCain as "the most loathsome," noting: The most consistently mischaracterized politician in the country,…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…