October 2007
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Leiter from Texas to Chicago
So it’s been a complex six months or so, but my family and I have finally decided that we are moving to Chicago next summer, where I will take up a Chair at the University of Chicago Law School and Direct Chicago’s new Center for Law, Philosophy, & Human Values, which will support “the reflective,…
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Leiter from Texas to Chicago
So it’s been a complex six months or so, but my family and I have finally decided that we are moving to Chicago next summer, where I will take up a Chair at the University of Chicago Law School and Direct Chicago’s new Center for Law, Philosophy, & Human Values, which will support “the reflective,…
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Colin McGinn Did Not Like Ted Honderich’s Book
So many people have been calling my attention to Colin McGinn’s review of Ted Honderich’s On Consciousness (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004) from Philosophical Review, vol. 116, no. 3 (2007), that I thought I should comment on it. Here is how the review opens: This book runs the full gamut from the mediocre to the…
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Why Law and Economics Failed in Germany
This is an interesting, and prima facie plausible explanation. What do those better-informed than me think?
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“Law Porn”: Demeaning to Pornography!
As usual, Tom Smith (San Diego) has the funniest observations.
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Murphy from Cal Tech to Sydney
Dominic Murphy, currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology, will move next June to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, where he will take up the post of Senior Lecturer. (An informative review of Murphy’s book Psychiatry in the Scientific Image recently appeared in…
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Thus Spoke Voltaire
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." –Voltaire
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Advice on Choosing Law Schools from the Wall Street Journal
Some sensible suggestions here–especially about alternatives to US News!
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A Rookie Candidate’s Experience at the “Meat Market”
An experienced lawyer, recently back from the AALS "meat market" hiring convention, writes with some useful insights, that future job-seekers may find helpful: I think my biggest surprise came in the discovery of how important the "Preferred Courses" selections on the FAR form are. I would say that virtually ALL of my interviews came about…
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Advice on Job Talks
Daniel Solove (George Washington) makes a number of sensible points. One thing he doesn’t mention, which is crucial, is to find out in advance of the job talk what the format will be! It’s true that the normal format is 20-30 minutes of presentation, followed by 30-40 minutes of discussion. But confirm that with each…
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Stich on Morality
Four video lectures here, under the general title "Moral Theory Meets Cognitive Science." (I found this via the always interesting "Experimental Philosophy" blog.)
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Gaming US News By Taking Lots of Transfer Students in the Second Year
Bill Henderson (Indiana) analyzes the issue.
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Justifying Originalism
Thoughts on Randy Barnett’s views and the general problem of justifying originalist approaches to Constitutional interpretation here.
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Plato on SSRN!
Here. Who knew he was so tech-savvy? Well, actually, it is new translations of four dialogues by philosopher Cathal Woods at Virginia Wesleyan College and one of his students, Ryan Pack.
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Friday Poem: “Something I Forgot”
Something I Forgot We’re sitting side by side a woman half my age and I both waiting but for different doctors We chat softly as if we have been friends for years beginning when an addled patient marches across her foot and I respond sympathetically But then she’s called and then I’m called and focus…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii