January 2007
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Richman from Fordham to Columbia
Daniel Richman (criminal procedure, evidence, federal criminal law), a professor of law at Fordham University, has accepted a tenured offer from Columbia Law School.
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The Changing “Sociology” of the Philosophy Profession: Presentation Style, “Brilliant Loners” and Group Work, and the Empirical Facts (Leiter)
A senior philosopher wrote with the following interesting observations about "the changing sociology of the field," with particular regard to philosophy of language: When I was in graduate school [in the 1960s], papers delivered to philosophy departments were almost always read out by the speaker from a typescript. This practice reflected a conception of the…
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Brooks from Vanderbilt to Drexel
Susan Brooks, a clinical professor of law at Vanderbilt University who specializes in children’s rights, child welfare, family law, and therapeutic jurisprudence, has accepted appointment as Professor of Law at Drexel University.
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Video Game for Xmas: Convert to Christianity or Die! (Leiter)
If you failed to put this under the tree for the kids a few weeks back, perhaps you can get a post-Xmas discount? Story here: Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new computer game in which players must either convert or kill non-Christians is the wrong gift to give this holiday season and that…
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White from UC Irvine Back to Utah
(MOVING TO FRONT from Dec. 29 for the benefit of those who may have missed it during the holiday period) Nicholas White, a leading scholar of ancient philosophy who is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine, is moving back to the University of Utah as Presidential Professor of Philosophy, effective…
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Beiser Turns Down Northwestern, To Stay at Syracuse
(MOVING TO FRONT FROM DEC. 26 for the benefit of those who may have missed it during the holiday period) Frederick Beiser, one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of German philosophy in the late 18th and early 19th-century, has turned down the senior offer from Northwestern University, and will remain at Syracuse…
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Culture Clash (Leiter)
This is of no relevance to anything at all, but it struck me as amusing: Led Zeppelin on French TV in 1969. The audience seems a bit perplexed. But at least the guy dressed like a bellhop about 8 minutes and 30 seconds in is quite happy!
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Annals of the One-Party State, Part 302 (Leiter)
Here is the new Democratic majority leader in the House of Representatives: Iran with nuclear weapons is unacceptable, new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told The Jerusalem Post hours after entering the party leadership position. The Maryland Democrat said the view is shared by his party, rejecting assertions that the Democrats would be weaker than…
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Winners’ war (Edmundson)
The barbaric lynching of the barbarous Saddam Hussein achieved what almost everyone had assumed to be impossible: to make the former tyrant look like a martyr. And the timing? By one measure, poor: the US handed Saddam over to his enemies–including elements of the Mahdi army–on the eve of the Islamic period of atonement. But…
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Cleveland from Texas to Columbia
Sarah Cleveland (international law) at the University of Texas at Austin has accepted a senior offer from Columbia Law School, where she visited last year. (She has also turned down the offer from the University of Michigan Law School.) She is currently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. She’ll be missed in Austin!
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Friday Poem: “January’s a Lake of Ice”
January’s a Lake of Ice January’s a lake of ice in suburb’s blur The autos grumble east and west Nothing stirs from in the nest Each in a bubble laid to rest The people next door are dead for all I know Dead these several weeks dead beneath the snow In backyards icy with…
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Christopher Hitchens, “War-Toting Superstar” (Leiter)
And they don’t even mention that he’s a drunk! (Thanks to Ruchira Paul for the pointer to this amusing site.)
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Rorty’s Pragmatism and Judge Posner’s Moral Skepticism
I’ve posted a draft of a short paper (slated for the University of Chicago Law Review) on Richard Rorty’s Dewey Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School last year, on the subject of Dewey, Posner, and moral skepticism. There is more detail here. Although this isn’t a rigorous philosophical piece, it might interest some…
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New Paper on Rorty’s Pragmatism and Judge Posner’s Moral Skepticism
I’ve posted here a draft of a paper commenting on Richard Rorty’s Dewey Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School last year; this paper, along with Rorty’s Dewey lecture and some other commentaries will appear in University of Chicago Law Review later this year. Here is the abstract: “Pragmatism,” says Rorty, “puts natural science…
I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…