June 2007
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ABA/LSAC Makes 2008 Data Available in Spreadsheet Formats
The Empirical Legal Studies blog has details.
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Maudlin on Truth, Realism, and Rorty
This is an amusingly blistering review by Tim Maudlin (Rutgers) of a recent collection of papers on Truth and Realism, though it is especially timely given the proliferating pontificating about Richard Rorty by people who don’t know anything about philosophy (for example–I’ll comment more on Carlin Romano’s silliness later). Herewith Maudlin: Rorty tells a just-so…
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William & Mary Philosophy Department Put in Quasi-Receivership Because of Mistreatment of Junior Faculty
Story here. What is reported is certainly consistent with what I’ve heard from various faculty.
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Brian Leiter Links Page
Your (nearly) complete Brian Leiter links page, which some readers may want to switch out for their current links to this or my other pages. (I’ve got another Brian Leiter links page as well, which I may fill out further, though the Naymz site was a bit easier to use I thought.)
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Is your work being flogged on eBay? (Edmundson)
The PHILOS-L list is buzzing about internet sales of DVDs and downloads of recent philosophical texts. Probable copyright violations and facilitated plagiarism leap to mind. Check here, here, and here. If you are among the aggrieved, you may lodge complaints to eBay here.
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Hathaway from Yale to Berkeley
Oona Hathaway (international law), currently a tenure-track Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School, has accepted a tenured offer from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. Her husband Jacob Hacker, currently Professor of Political Science at Yale, will also join the Berkeley faculty as a Professor of Political…
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Amusing Video Clip of Rorty
MOVING TO FRONT–SEE UPDATE Reader Rob Sica sent me a charming video clip of Rorty from 2005, noting some of what I had to say about him in The Future for Philosophy volume (he then goes on to talk about Heidegger). As others have noted, Rorty always took criticism in stride. UPDATE: Alas, the earlier…
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Gillett from Illinois Wesleyan to Northern Illinois
Carl Gillett (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of science), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Illinois Wesleyan University has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University.
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Sharkey from Columbia to NYU
Catherine Sharkey (torts) at Columbia Law School has accepted a senior offer from New York University School of Law, where she visited last fall. She is the fourth tenured professor to move from Columbia to NYU in the last two years.
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Weatherson, Maitra to Rutgers
Brian Weatherson (epistemology, philosophy of language, decision theory, metaphysics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His partner Ishani Maitra (philosophy of language, feminist philosophy), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the Departments…
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Google Scholar Redux (Leiter)
UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS TO HEGEL LISTING (thanks to Thom Brooks for catching the errors) Following up on Jason ‘s post about using Google Scholar to assess the impact of philosophical work–and do note all of Jason’s caveats, and those of the commentators, myself included–I thought I’d see what Google Scholar tells us about the impact…
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Martha Nussbaum and Wikipedia: A Case Study in the Unreliability of Information on the Internet
Some philosophers will recall the curious spectacle awhile back of the philosopher of mind David Chalmers intervening in a Wikipedia discussion to correct misstatements of his views about consciousness, only to be "told off" by an anonymous Wikipedia editor! (Chalmers himself took a more charitable view of the matter.) Now we have Wikipedia foolishness redux,…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…