May 2007
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Hires and Visits in Labor and Employment Law
Following the example of Blog Emperor Caron, Professor Secunda has collected the details for folks in his field.
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Goldberg from Kentucky to Northwestern
Sanford Goldberg (epistemology, philosophy of language and mind), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University.
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Mann from Texas to Columbia
Ronald J. Mann (commercial law, intellectual property), my esteemed colleague at the University of Texas School of Law, has accepted a senior offer from Columbia Law School. He will be missed in Austin!
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The Challenge of Chmess (J. Stanley)
Chmess, for those of you who haven’t heard, is just like chess – except the king can move two squares in either direction. As Daniel Dennett has pointed out, Chmess provides a rich source of a priori truths to explore. However, the a priori truths of chmess are not particularly worthy of exploration. Dennett’s challenge…
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Nano-espionage from the North (Edmundson)
Now it can be told: the Canadian Mint’s issuing of a quarter with red poppy highlights honouring th[e] country’s war dead in 2004 … created an uproar in the corridors of U.S. Intelligence. Officials down south had never seen anything like it and became suspicious when an agent found one in a rental car. Documents…
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Wendel on Autoadmit and Anthony Ciolli
An informative post by legal ethics expert Brad Wendel (Cornell), who quietly shreds some of the rationales Mr. Ciolli and his partner Jarret Cohen offered in defense of their notorious "discussion" board.
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Wisdom (Edmundson)
Love wisdom? Sure: that’s philosophy. Got wisdom? Not so sure? See here.
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Burge, Diamond Elected to American Philosophical Society
Tyler Burge (UCLA) and Cora Diamond (Emerita, Virginia) are the philosophers elected to the American Philosophical Society this year. The list of new members is here. Judith Butler, who has a PhD in philosophy from Yale but teaches in the Rhetoric Department at Berkeley, was also elected. There is more on philosophers previously elected here…
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Koh, Lessig Elected to American Philosophical Society
The list of new members is here. Lawrence Lessig (Stanford) was elected in the "Social Sciences" category, while Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, was elected in the category for "The Arts, Professions, Leaders in Public & Private Affairs." Judge David Tatel of the D.C. Circuit was also elected in the latter category.
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How Can Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Publish Nonsense Like This?
I want to start by saying that Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews is a wonderful resource, for which the whole profession is indebted to Gary Gutting who runs it so well. I am also a member of the editorial board, but have responsibility, as it were, for only a limited number of topics. But something has…
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“Rally for Reason” Protests “Creation Museum” in Kentucky
Long-time reader Rob Sica asked that I call attention to the upcoming "Rally for Reason" in Kentucky: People from all over the country are invited to join outside of the gates of “Answers in Genesis” (AiG) in Northern Kentucky to let the world know that many rational Americans do not share the primitive world view…
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“A Split Emerges as Conservatives Discuss Darwin” (Leiter)
So reports the New York Times in their trademark he said/she said manner, when, of course, the article might have been more aptly titled, "A Split Emerges as Ignorant Ideologues Discuss Darwin," since ignorance of evolutionary biology is almost evenly divided between the two sides: on the one hand, the pathological liars from the Discovery…
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Friday Poem: “It Is Well To Be”
It Is Well To Be A poem is always in me I rhythm with it daily It ticks in me It is my true time The world otherwise being Nothing really winning No lapse in living Loses it And all grief Which shadows me It grows To tops of joy in being Nor is it…
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Placement of Graduates in Law Teaching–from Solum’s Data
MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 26: TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO REPORT TO SOLUM! (DATA BELOW IS NOT UPDATED FROM WHERE THINGS STOOD ON 4/26–WILL UPDATE WHEN SOLUM COMPLETES COLLECTING REPORTS.) Perhaps as a way of inspiring more schools to report their rookie hires to Larry Solum, let me present some data based on the…
I wonder if people are familiar with Fred Schauer’s essay on Kelsen and Fuller. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607099