July 2007
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Floods in Oxford!
The Virtua Stoa is on the case, with photos and commentary. UPDATE: It’s a bad situation in Britain. Good wishes to all my U.K. friends affected by this weather fiasco!
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Simon Critchley Rides to the Defense of Derrida
A couple of years ago Simon Critchley, who teaches philosophy at the New School in New York and (part-time) at the University of Essex in Britain, sent me a copy of his book Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction. That was nice of him, as we had not had any prior interaction that I can…
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James Rachels (1941-2003) Website
Stuart Rachels, a moral philosopher at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, has prepared an informative website about his father, the late moral philosopher James Rachels. The site includes downloadable articles by James Rachels, and the full text of his 1986 book The End of Life, among other items likely to be of interest to…
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Friday Poem: ‘Very Well, I Will Be Forgotten”
Very Well, I Will Be Forgotten Very well, I will be forgotten, have already been by most. Why, I’ll probably forget myself as I’ve forgotten earlier selves, moments, emotions. And the words I write-and too quickly forget-will last perhaps a generation Before the clutter of books records papers will bury them out of…
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Wright from St. Andrews to NYU
Crispin Wright (philosophy of language, math and logic; epistemology) at the University of St. Andrews has accepted the full-time, senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at New York University, to start in fall 2008. He will, however, continue to be involved with the Arche Centre at St. Andrews. This is the third senior appointment…
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Brown, Kaplan elected to British Academy
The British Academy has announced its new members. Philosophers elected are Harvey Brown (philosophy of physics) at Oxford University and (as a Corresponding Fellow) David Kaplan (philosophy of language, logic) at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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New Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies
Mary Dudziak (USC) has the details, as well as advice on the application process.
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Google Ads on SSRN–and Some Odd (shall we say) Juxtapositions
Michael Fischl, the labor law scholar at the University of Connecticut, writes with the following strange SSRN experience (I vote for cry!): I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry at the experience I am having with SSRN, but I thought it would interest you and perhaps other legal academics as well. About a week…
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Don’t Name Your Law School After a Racist! (*Updated*)
Or else you’re headed for trouble. UPDATE: The foul-mouthed former head of the Board of Trustee at Roger Williams University has asked that his name be removed from the law school, which is no doubt a welcome turn of events for the faculty and students there who do not deserve the unfortunate association.
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Philosophy Publishers Interested in Advertising on this Blog?
I am talking currently to a couple of presses about either exclusive or non-exclusive options for advertising their philosophy products (books, journals etc.) on the blog. By clicking on the site meter icon, lower left, you can get an idea what the traffic looks like over the course of a year (right now it is…
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Salaries Woes at State Universities: The Issues Confronting the California System
This story about efforts by the University of California to get more funds for faculty salaries are indicative of issues confronting all state university systems (and bear in mind that California may still have the best-funded system of higher education in the country); I have bolded a few especially notable bits: University of California administrators…
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How Many Degrees of Separation Are You from Cass Sunstein?
At last, thanks to Professors Edelman and George at Vanderbilt, we have the answer! Professor Edelman writes: We had to search by hand through multiple data bases to track down co-authors of co-authors of Sunstein for our project and we really need more eyes on the results to ensure that we got everyone who belongs.…
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What the Employment Stats from the Last US News Rankings Would Have Looked Like Under the New Approach
A colleague sent me a revealing chart, showing what the employment stats for the top law schools would have looked like if U.S. News had already been employing the new policy of treating those unemployed but allegedly "not seeking employment" as part of the stats. UCLA’s placement would have fallen from the reported 99.7% to…
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Committee Proposes Major Increase in Funding for Higher Education in Israel
Story here (subscriber access only): The Shochat Committee’s proposals include doubling the higher-education budget, to $2.5-billion; providing $225-million in new research funds; doubling the budget of Israel’s National Science Foundation, to $120-million; providing special undergraduate scholarships in the humanities; and rewarding outstanding researchers and academics in an effort to stop an Israeli "brain drain" to…
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Thompson from UCLA to Penn State
Via Blog Emperor Caron, I learn that tax scholar Samuel Thompson at UCLA has accepted a senior offer from the Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University. That’s a significant catch for Penn State!
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that