May 2007
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Interview about Legal Philosophy
I’ve posted at SSRN the text of an interview with me about legal philosophy, which will appear in the volume Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions, due out later this year. The questions that all those interviewed address are the following: 1. Why were you initially drawn to the philosophy of law? 2. For which of your…
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Interview about Legal Philosophy
I’ve posted at SSRN the text of an interview with me about legal philosophy, which will appear in the volume Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions, due out later this year. The questions that all those interviewed address are the following: 1. Why were you initially drawn to the philosophy of law? 2. For which of your…
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Why is it so easy to get tenure in law schools?
With all the blogospheric chit-chat about tenure, I thought I’d post, once again, a link to this old discussion of mine (prompted by a question from a philosopher) about why it is so easy to get tenure in law schools. I’d be curious to hear what other law faculty think. Post only once; comments may…
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2nd Annual On-Line Philosophy Conference Has Begun!
Although I don’t do conference announcements, I have to make an exception, as I did last year, for this virtual conference organized by Thomas Nadelhoffer (Dickinson) and Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State). Features this week include a video of the keynote address by Ernest Sosa (Rutgers), and papers by Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins), Delia Graff Fara…
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Harvard Makes Offers to Rubenstein, Sitkoff
Harvard Law School has made tenured offers to William Rubenstein (civil rights, civil procedure) at UCLA and Robert Sitkoff (wills, trusts & estates) at New York University.
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“Because the Undergraduates are Better” (J. Stanley)
I spent the first five years of my teaching career at Cornell, and greatly appreciated both my colleagues and my students; if my personal situation had allowed it, I would almost certainly have remained for my career. If someday an Ivy League institution were to develop a philosophy department that could provide the sort of…
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CUNY Makes Offer to Neale at Rutgers
MOVING TO FRONT FROM MAY 4–SEE UPDATE The City University of New York Graduate Center has offered a Distinguished Professorship and the Kornblith Family Chair in the Philosophy of Science and Value to Stephen Neale (philosophy of language, philosophical logic) at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Two other Rutgers faculty are currently entertaining senior offers: Ted…
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Doris Wins Stanton Award from Society for Philosophy & Psychology
John Doris, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis and a leader in the experimental philosophy movement and the integration of psychology and ethics, has won the 2007 Stanton Award which "is given to a scholar in Philosophy or Psychology who has begun making significant contributions to interdisciplinary research and has been…
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Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2006
Courtesy of Robert Thompson (Vanderbilt), here is the list of authors whose articles were chosen as among "the 10 best corporate and securities articles" based on a poll of scholars in the field: Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA), Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard), Bernard Black (Texas) (two articles), Stephen Choi (NYU), Brian Cheffins (Cambridge), James Cox (Duke), Jill Fisch…
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On Tenure
There is a flurry of (rather ignorant, it seems to me) postings by academic bloggers (mostly law professors) about tenure, most of which are linked from this item. In response to one of the items, David Luban (Georgetown) makes an excellent point about tenure and academic freedom: The reason that tenure appears to function to…
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Rube Goldberg Epic (Edmundson)
Innocent fun here, for Rube Goldberg fans, pyromaniacs, and anyone in need of a laugh.
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Now: Visits and Hires in Legal History
From Prof. Dudziak.
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German Academia (J. Stanley)
I am currently in Germany giving some talks. These are my first colloquium talks in German philosophy departments, and so I am just now encountering the state of German academia as a fellow professor, rather than as the ignorant philosophy student I was in Tuebingen in the 1980s. At the time, I had the impression…
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Philosophy Departments That Advertise Through the APA But Violate Its Anti-discrimination Policies
Charles Hermes, a PhD student at Florida State University, invited me to post the following letter he has sent to the APA: I applied to a position at Westmont College that was posted in the American Philosophical Association’s Jobs for Philosophers. When Westmont decided to pursue my application further, they requested that I sign a…
Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…