April 2007
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A “Tax ‘Power’ Couple”?
Who knew there was such a thing? Blog Emperor Caron has the details on their migrations.
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But is it H2O? (Wilson)
For the first time: water has been detected on a planet outside our solar system.
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Pruss from Georgetown to Baylor
Alexander Pruss (metaphysics, philosophy of religion), who is a tenured Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, has accepted a tenured position in the Department of Philosophy at Baylor University for the fall.
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Wayne State: the Latest Victim of the US News Craziness
The Detroit News reports on the turmoil after U.S. News, in its typically irresonsible fashion, dumped Wayne State into the "fourth tier" because of what turns out to be a reporting error on employment statistics. (Dean Frank Wu comments on the cause of the absurd drop here.) Someone should ask Robert Morse, who runs the…
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More on Decanal Hypocrisy About the US News Rankings
Story from a Minnesota newspaper here. Several of the Deans make reasonable points in defense of their calling attention to how they ranked.
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Music out of context (Wilson)
and philosophers in the Post. Plato, Leibniz, Hume, Kant (who was "obviously right"… maybe), and Paul Guyer are invoked along the way to understanding this mysterious phenomenon.
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Dudziak Wins Guggenheim
Mary Dudziak, Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California looks to be the only law professor to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in this year’s competition. She won support for a project on "How war made America in the 20th century."
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Richard Chappell (of Philosophers’ Carnival fame) is back…
…in New Zealand after his US tour. Please follow his good google advice, which will benefit PGR readers looking for Brian Leiter!
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E-Bay against vagueness (Edmundson)
A British student, Dean Robinson, has been barred from E-Bay for the following infraction: Your listing breached eBay’s No Item policy and has been removed … You may not list intangible items or items whose existence cannot be verified, such as ghosts, souls or spirits. Robinson’s listing offered unspecified services in return for financial support…
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Friday Poem: “I Wake Up Dying Instead I Write”
I Wake Up Dying Instead I Write lWho is this manwho rises at dawnno longer in commandof his bodyin manifest fear of deathwho opens a bookbegins to read poetryand reflect on the art of expression There’s pain in his headhis heartbeat is dizzyhe gives himself up…
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The End of History (According to the Guggenheim Foundation, at least) (J. Stanley)
As Brian announced, Paul Horwich, the eminent NYU philosopher, was the sole recipient in philosophy of a Guggenheim award this year. In contrast, by my count at least 20 historians received Guggenheim Fellowships. Furthermore, Prof. Horwich’s own project, like the majority of successful Guggenheim Fellowships by philosophers in recent years, is itself historical (on Wittgenstein).…
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The Tenure Case of Norman Finkelstein at DePaul (Leiter)
Professor Finkelstein, a fierce critic of Israeli crimes and defender of the rights of the Palestinians, is embroiled in a tenure battle at DePaul University where he teaches. There are informative pieces on this unfolding story here and here. Particularly notable is the way in which Alan Dershowitz–the Harvard law professor, apologist for torture, and…
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Georgetown Will No Longer Fund Public Interest Work Supporting Abortion Rights
Story here; an excerpt: Jenny Woodson is no stranger to controversial causes. It’s just that the first-year law student didn’t expect that, at the most stressful time of her year, she’d be at the center of a divisive case about adherence to religious principles. Like classmates before her at the Georgetown University Law Center, Woodson…
I never met Alan, sadly, but his work leading the charge in making philosophy of sex “a thing” in contemporary…