April 2007
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Luban to Stay at Georgetown, Declines Stanford Offer
David Luban, a leading figure in legal ethics at Georgetown University, has declined the senior offer from Stanford Law School. As a faculty member at Georgetown observed to me, after losing Mark Tushnet (constitutional law and history) to Harvard last year, retaining Luban is an especially welcome development. (Professor Luban has also been doing some…
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Top 40 Law Schools by Student Quality Based on Numerical Credentials
The other Brian Leiter has the details.
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Philosopher Horwich Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Paul Horwich (NYU) appears to be the only philosopher to have won a Guggenheim Fellowship in this year’s competition; he won support for a project on "Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy." Of local interest, three UT Austin faculty won Guggenheims this year: Diana K. Davis (Geography & Middle Eastern Studies); Neil Foley (History); and A. Van Jordan (English).
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Harvard’s Dershowitz Works to “Disrupt Tenure Bid of Longtime Nemesis” at DePaul
So reports the Chronicle of Higher Education. Joe Hodnicki at the Law Librarian Blog comments.
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de Geest from Utrect/Ghent to Wash U/St. Louis
Gerrit de Geest, Professor of Law and Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Utrecht and Professor of Law at the University of Ghent, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Washington University in St. Louis. De Geest is a Past President of the European Association of Law and…
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Blackburn to Return to North Carolina on a Half-Time Basis from Fall 2008
Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University and a leading figure in ethics and philosophy of language, among other areas, will return to the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill each fall, beginning in 2008 and continuing each fall for at least five of the next six years. …
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Ludlow from Michigan to Toronto
Philosopher of language Peter Ludlow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. This is the latest in a (successful) effort by the Toronto Department to strengthen its presence in areas like philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics, and philosophical logic;…
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Guoira from Case Western to Utah
Here; an excerpt: AutoAdmit bills itself as "the most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world"…. "[P]restigious" isn’t the word for AutoAdmit. "Infamous" is more accurate. "Slimy" may be even better. The site is the creation of Anthony Ciolli, a third-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania, and Jarret Cohen, a 23-year-old…
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Using Google Scholar to Assess the Impact of Philosophical Work (J. Stanley)
Academics spend much time trying to assess the relative merits of work in an area. There is no sure-fire way to do this of course. But citation indices are one method to assess the impact work has had on an area. Though philosophers are loathe to use them, they are widely used in other disciplines.…
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PhD Admissions (Again): Info Sought on the Season Just Concluded
The original thread was derailed into a slightly different (though informative) discussion, so I’m trying again on the original topic: A student who was unsuccessful in his applications to PhD programs writes: Would members of admissions committees be willing to share any information about the admissions process for their philosophy programs? For example, it would…
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Decanal Hypocrisy Hall of Fame
Gordon Smith (Wisconsin en route to BYU) presents the evidence. Dean Randall at Alabama fares worst. Since all the interested parties know about U.S. News, there really should be a simple rule of thumb here: if your school fares well in its overall U.S. News nonsense number, make no comment; if U.S. News has done…
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It All Happened on April 2
It’s the birthday of literary critic and James Joyce scholar William York Tindall, (books by this author) born in Williamstown, Vermont (1903). He was a literature student when he discovered James Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922) while traveling in Paris. He became obsessed with Joyce, and read all of his works. When he returned to the…
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Hexagon of Saturn (Edmundson)
NASA’s Cassini-Huygens probe has revealed what looks to be a hexagonal ring around Saturn’s north pole. Even Cardinal Bellarmine might be impressed.
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PhD Admissions in the US: Information Sought on the Season Concluding
A student who was unsuccessful in his applications to PhD programs writes: Would members of admissions committees be willing to share any information about the admissions process for their philosophy programs? For example, it would be helpful to know how many applicants and admitted students a given program had; whether they use GPA and GRE…
I never met Alan, sadly, but his work leading the charge in making philosophy of sex “a thing” in contemporary…