May 2007
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Brand-Ballard on Kamm
I thought this an unusually effective review–generous and gracious in its praise for Kamm’s work, but also perceptive and efficient in criticisms of a certain kind of approach to moral philosophy.
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Nolan from Cal State/Long Beach to Marquette
Larry Nolan (early modern philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University at Long Beach, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Marquette University.
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Whittier Facing Possible Loss of ABA Accreditation
Details here. UPDATE: More on the Whittier situation here.
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Funny Comment of the Day…
…is due to Alastair Norcross (Rice currently, moving to Colorado): "I have long thought that being a famous professor of economics is quite consistent with being a complete idiot." Nothing like cross-disciplinary contempt!
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Why so many visiting professors?
A couple of faculty, including one Dean, wrote in to remark that the number of visitors at the top schools is double what it was 10-20 years ago. The question is what explains this development? My hypothesis is that the efforts by Harvard and Columbia to expand their faculties has created enormous pressure all the…
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Greenberg, Leiter, Quine, Realism, Naturalized Jurisprudence
Via Solum, I see that Mark Greenberg (UCLA–but whom we’re fortunate to have at Texas this calendar year as a Harrington Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Law School) has put on-line a revised version of the very fine paper on my work that he gave at a conference at Columbia six years ago. …
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Gibson, Dunn Partner in NYC Named New LSU Law Dean
Blog Emperor Caron has details and links.
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Koslicki from Tufts to Colorado
Katherin Koslicki (metaphysics, philosophy of language, ancient philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, has accepted a tenured Associate Professorship in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Congratulations to UT Law’s Class of 2007
It’s been a pleasure and privilege to have had the opportunity to work with many of you during your time in the Law School. I’m sure I speak for all my colleagues in wishing you much professional success and personal happiness in the years ahead. I look forward to seeing many of you at today’s…
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Friday Poem: “Lauded Poet at Home”
Lauded Poet at Home The gardener does not know meI drop the coins my fingers will not holdMy food I take from a tinSoon letters will be comingTo tell me I am loved My days were always numberedNow they are numberlessAlthough I make myself readyIt is better just to liveNor am I done forgetting See…
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Three More Hires for Northwestern (Two Tenured, One Tenure-Track): Mills, Lackey, Reed
Happily, I have now received confirmation of three more hires by the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University: Charles Mills (political philosophy, critical race theory, African-American philosophy), currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has accepted a position as John Evans Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Professor Mills will…
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UC Irvine Authorized to Hire a Founding Law Dean
So reports this local newspaper: UC Irvine officials got the go-ahead today to hire a founding dean for the university’s recently approved law school, at an annual salary of $233,200 to $364,300. The campus has begun recruiting for the position, in hopes that the new school will open in 2009. No one has been selected…
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Northwestern Makes Senior Offer to UVA’s Green
The Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University has made a senior offer to Mitchell Green (philosophy of language and mind), who is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. In addition to the recent appointment of Sanford Goldberg (epistemology, philosophy of language and mind) from the University of Kentucky, as well as…
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Miller to Retire at Harvard, Take Up Post at NYU
Arthur Miller, co-author with my late great colleague Charles Alan Wright of the leading treatise on Federal Practice and Procedure, will retire from the Harvard Law School faculty where he has taught since 1972 (Miller turns 73 this year). In the fall, he will take up a University Professorship at New York University School of…
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Washington & Lee’s Morant to be New Dean at Wake Forest
Blake Morant (administrative law, contracts, media law) at Washington & Lee has been appointed the new Dean of the law school at Wake Forest University. The Wake Forest press release is here.
Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…