November 2007
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Ranking of Law Schools by Placement in Federal Appellate Court Clerkships
UPDATE: Please note that the data, below, is not entirely accurate, as the comments make clear–and some corrections have already been recorded at the Clerkship Blog–follow the links, below. ====================================== The Federal Appellate Clerkship Blog is reporting clerkship placement for the 2008-09 term. I don’t know if the statistics are reliable, though some of the…
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Fodor v. Dennett on Adaptationism
Jerry Fodor (Rutgers) wrote a little polemic against adaptationism in the London Review of Books a few weeks back. The core message–there is more to evolution than natural selection–is, of course, well-known (though he overstates that point, hence the ensuing controversy). Unfortunately, Fodor adopts the habit of the creationists of referring to "Darwinism" and "Darwinists,"…
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“Impact Indices”
William Swann, a well-known social psychologist at UT Austin, has a section on his CV listing "Impact Indices." Here it is: Impact Indices In a 1995 poll, 35th of the 50 most cited psychologists in the world
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Rutgers’s Patterson Takes Up Part-Time Post at Swansea
Legal philosopher and commercial law scholar Dennis Patterson, Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers University, Camden, has taken up a part-time post as Professor of Jurisprudence and International Trade at Swansea University School of Law in the U.K., where he will teach for eight weeks each year as part of Swansea’s new LLM program in…
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South Carolina’s Bar Exam Scandal Gets Worse
Jim Chen (Louisville) has the latest details.
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Nietzsche in Cyberspace
For those who might be interested: Discussion of Aaron Ridley (Southampton) on "Nietzsche and the Re-Evaluation of Values" Discussion of Nicholas White (Utah) on Nietzsche on Hellenic Harmony Discussion of Raymond Geuss (Cambridge) on Nietzsche: Two Quotes Plus what I’m reading in the Nietzsche literature. Comments and discussion are welcome at the Nietzsche blog.
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Friday Poem: “Reading Sabines in the Parking Lot”
Reading Sabines in the Parking Lot And looking up as you go by I take you in To see if there abides within A dirty woman One who laughs Spirit with a glint Wit pointed as a pin I do this out of reverie Boredom’s affectation And vanishing You have no hint Of who you’ll…
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“The John Hawthorne Page”
It’s not what you’re expecting. Of course, he didn’t create it either.
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Mary Dudziak isn’t happy with the new citation rankings
Her comments on the "Legal History" listing are here and she felt the need to post a link to her comments here as well after I linked to that post. Professor Dudziak was actually one of the runner-ups in "Legal History," so this isn’t just sour grapes on her part. But let’s see what she…
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Ted Honderich Does Not Think Much of Colin McGinn’s Review of His Book…
…and he argues that what I called McGinn’s prima facie plausible criticisms of Honderich’s book do not, in fact, survive scrutiny. He also documents, towards the end of the rejoinder (and in a separate page of excerpts), some of the personal history that might explain the fierce tone of the review, the subject of our…
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The Fake War on Terror, Part 793
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but this item is worth noting. Also pertinent is this older piece by George Soros on the damage done by the careless talk about a "war on terror." Perhaps if everyone just called it the "fake war on terror," it might actually have consequences?
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Employers Want Philosophers!
And I don’t mean universities.
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There is no bottom to dumb
A blog devoted to shilling for Intelligent Design has posted a link to the paper by myself and Michael Weisberg critiquing attempts to apply evolutionary psychology to law. It appears the author of the post, one Denyse O’Leary, a Canadian journalist who is a notorious apologist for ID creationism, thought our article was of a…
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Citation Rankings as a Monopoly Board
This is pretty funny (as well as revealing).
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii