March 2007
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New Nevada Law Dean: J.V. White from Louisiana State
The UNLV press release is here.
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Friday Poem: “To My Friends”
To My Friends To my friends fromGreenwich Village whosefootprints fill those streetsto Jerry Margo NellieStella and Ron Cherneyand the Ones that I forget I hope you’re living yetor have you joined the angelsin a party for the rent 4/13-5/4/96, 12/22/06Copyright 1996, 2006 by Maurice LeiterPosted with permission
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Filler’s Updated List of Faculty Moves
The new URL for the list is here. Note that this list does not distinguish between or among genuinely "lateral" moves (e.g., from one tenured position to another tenured position, or from one tenure-track position to another tenure-track position) as against other moves (e.g., from a clinical position to a tenure-track academic position, or froma …
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In Memoriam: Antonio Cua (1932-2007)
Professor Cua was a leading scholar of Chinese philosophy and an emeritus professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he taught for several decades.
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US News Reputation Scores for 2007
Lots of folks have e-mailed me the new U.S. News rankings, and the underlying numbers check out. There aren’t a lot of significant changes from last year in the reputational scores, the one part of the ranking that can’t be gamed. (This doesn’t mean they have a lot of validity, but at least their problems…
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For Whom (Tom) Bell Tolls: Schools Gaming the Reporting of US News Employment Data
Professor Bell presents the details here. Schools whose employment data reporting appears suspicious include Georgetown, UCLA, Cardozo, Washington/Seattle, and Illinois, among others. But as Professor Bell notes, there may be other explanations for the disrepancies he identifies.
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Persily from Penn to Columbia
Nathaniel Persily, a leading young expert on election law and voting rights at the University of Pennsylvania Law school, has accepted a tenured offer from Columbia Law School.
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Paulsen from Minnesota to St. Thomas
Michael Stokes Paulsen, a prolific and influential constitutional law scholar at the University of Minnesota Law School (who currently holds one of the University’s distinguished McKnight professorships), has accepted a senior offer from the University of St. Thomas, also in Minneapolis. That’s a big coup for St. Thomas, which under the leadership of Dean Thomas…
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What Happened to Penn State’s Philosophy Department?
In the last few years, there seems to have been a mass exodus of many of their best-known (at least in the traditional Stony Brook-Penn State circles) faculty: Mitchell Aboulafia departed for the Julliard School in New York; Douglas Anderson went to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Daniel Conway to Texas A&M University; John Sallis…
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Jonathan Schaffer to ANU
Jonathan Schaffer (PhD, Rutgers University), currently at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has accepted a permanent research position at the Australian National University. Despite being a 1999 Phd, Schaffer is the author of 33 articles, 27 of which have appeared in refereed journals (including two in the Philosophical Review, two in The Journal of…
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US News Formula for Calculating 9-Month Employment Differs from ABA Method
Tom Bell (Chapman) has the details. The question is how many schools failed to notice the difference this year (I’m checking right now on Texas!); since U.S. News rankings come out later this week, we’ll see soon enough.
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Searle Writes Kane’s Book on Free Will…
…ten years after Kane! Informative review here.
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Garrett Talks about Hume
An interesting interview with Don Garrett (NYU) here.
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Books and more books
This is turning into a busy year for books. At the end of last week, my collection of papers in legal philosophy, Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy, was published in Britain in both cloth and paper by Oxford University Press (it should be "officially" out in the U.S.…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii