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    I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…

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    I suspect evolutionary and behavioural perspectives are left seriously underappreciated in this approach to epistemology. Reichenbach’s claim that epistemology must…

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    Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…

January 2007

  • Draft paper on Continental “Morality Critics”: Comments Welcome! (Leiter)

    MOVING TO THE FRONT FROM DECEMBER 20:  There is a slightly revised version on-line now (changes primarily in the Marx and Foucault sections).  I’d still gratefully receive comments, since I can still make changes at the copy-editing stage. =========================== You can download the working draft here.  Comments in the next week would be especially welcome,…

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  • In Memoriam: Bernard Meltzer (1914-2007)

    Bernard Meltzer, the distinguished labor law expert who taught for many decades at the University of Chicago Law School, and who was also a prosecutor at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials after WWII, died this morning.  Chicago’s memorial notice is here.

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  • Objective: incapacitation (Wilson)

    It appears that the U.S. government has successfully driven Jose Padilla insane.

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  • In Memoriam: Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007)

    I am very sorry to report that my colleague Bob Solomon died suddenly on January 2, while travelling in Zurich.  I will link to a memorial notice as soon as one is available.  His breadth of philosophical interests was remarkable, including Continental philosophy, business ethics, Non-Western philosophy, and philosophy of mind, though it is probably…

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  • Philosopher Barbara Forrest: Anti-“Intelligent Design” Warrior (Leiter)

    There is a nice profile of the important work Professor Forrest has been doing here.

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  • Philosophy Job Market Wiki Now Covering the Next Stage of the Hiring Process (Leiter)

    The Philosophy Job Market Wiki is now keeping track of schools that have notifed candidates about fly-backs as well as offers.  Again, I can not vouch for the reliability of this information (the site says, for example, that my Department has notified candidates about fly-backs, which may well be, though the Department as a whole…

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  • Another New Dean: Klonoff from UMKC to Lewis & Clark

    Robert H. Klonoff, an expert on complex litigation in the law school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (and before that a partner with Jones Day), has been named the new Dean of the law school at Lewis & Clark College. The Lewis & Clark press release is here.

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  • Duke Law Names Federal Judge David Levi as New Dean

    Duke’s press release is here.  This is, I believe, the first time a major law school has chosen a sitting judge as Dean in at least a half century, perhaps longer.  Am I wrong?

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  • Redei from Eotvos (Hungary) to LSE

    Miklos Redei (history and philosophy of physics), who has taught for the past twenty years at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, has accepted appointment (effective Sept. 1, 2007) as Lecturer in Philosophy at the London School of Economics. (Note:  there are some accents missing on both Professor Redei’s name and the name of his university…

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  • Philosophy in the Public Sphere (J. Stanley)

    The view within the humanities of the discipline of philosophy as it is currently practiced is that it is an obscure branch of human inquiry, disconnected from the central concerns of the humanities (indeed some philosophers, such as Richard Rorty, have based significant portions of their careers pandering to our fellow humanists’ disdain for our…

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  • Mary didn’t raise no fool (Wilson)

    Cenk Uygur argues by analogy that those 25% of U.S.ers expecting the second coming in 2007 are certifiably insane: Imagine for a second if instead of Jesus, some psycho was waiting for a magical creature named Fred to come save him this year and suck him up into the sky. Now, who doesn’t think that…

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  • New year’s baby (Wilson)

    Yesterday the first global super-union was born… or anyway conceived: British, American and German unions are to forge a pact to challenge the power of global capitalism in a move towards creating an international union with more than 6 million members. […] Derek Simpson, general secretary of Amicus, said: ‘Our aim is to create a…

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  • Virtual Milgram (Edmundson)

    The notorious Milgram results have been duplicated, sort of.  In the original experiments, the roles of  "teacher" and "learner" were both filled by humans.  In the new study, led by  Mel Slater, of the Catalan Polytechnic University in Barcelona and University College London, the learner role was filled by a virtual character.  Despite the teachers’…

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