December 2007
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Politically Correct and Non-Legally Binding Holiday Wishes
MOVING TO THE FRONT from Dec. 22, 2006 ========================== Via reader Ian Best comes this all-purpose set of seasons greetings, written by Professor Gary Potter (Music, Indiana-Bloomington): From me ("the wishor") to you ("the wishee"): Please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stress,…
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One Flew over the cuckoo’s nest? (Edmundson)
Antony Flew (Philosophy, Reading) has just published There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind. In a review in the New York Times (Dec. 23), Anthony Gottlieb writes: I doubt thoughtful believers will welcome this volume. Far from strengthening the case for the existence of God, it rather weakens the…
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Friday Poem: “A Talk with A. Zagajewski”
A Talk with A. Zagajewski (After reading "A Talk with Friedrich Nietzsche")–No one tells me anything new so I tell myself my own story-TSZ: 56, Friedrich Nietzsche I imagine you writing on a balcony in Paris You float in freedom which at last you savor Your words are tall as if on stilts Moving above…
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Honderich/McGinn Dispute Makes the Guardian
Story here. A short excerpt, from near the end of the article: "People have complained about my tone in reviews for the past 30 years," says McGinn proudly. "I’ve made definite enemies in the past 30 years in important departments. People are too cautious. Hard things need to be said." … What will happen now?…
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Practices Relating to Oversight by Schools of Law Reviews
UPDATE: Moving to front, since I stupidly neglected to open comments the first time! A colleague at American University writes: A committee I’m on at the American University Washington College of Law is preparing to examine the questions below, and I suggested that to elicit more information more efficiently we submit them to a blawg…
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Justice Thomas: “Take This Job and Shove It!”
Well, he doesn’t quite say that, but it’s close: Clarence Thomas told an overflow crowd at Chapman University Monday evening that he never wanted to become a Supreme Court justice, or even a judge. "There’s not much that entices about the job," Thomas said, answering questions from the public that provided a rare glimpse…
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Rutgers Votes Out Offers to Dorr, Moss at Pittsburgh
The Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University at New Brunswick voted out tenured offers to a couple at the University of Pittsburgh: Cian Dorr (metaphysics, philosophy of language), who is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Jessica Moss (ancient philosophy), who is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy.
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Kysar from Cornell to Yale
Douglas Kysar (environmental law, products liability, behavioral law and economics), Professor of Law at Cornell University (and a visiting professor of law currently at UCLA), has accepted a senior offer from Yale Law School. The YLS press release is here.
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Other Resources for Applying to Graduate School
A student writes: I am starting the process of applying to Philosophy PhD programs for Fall of ’09. I have been reading your blog & the PGR for a while now. I was hoping you could put something on your blog about where prospective applicants can go to find resources. Maybe there is a good…
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In Memoriam: J.L. Ackrill (1921-2007)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 3 John L. Ackrill, who was Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy at Oxford University and Fellow of Brasenose College, passed away on November 30. I will add a link to a memorial notice as soon as one appears. UPDATE: Oxford Philosophy has links to two substantial obituaries that…
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Trends in Law Blog Readership
Blog Emperor Caron has, of course, collected the facts! Traffic stats are, in one sense, misleading, since there are huge differences in visit length between blogs as well. The average length of a visit to this blog tends to be over one minute and forty seconds most of the time; the average length of a…
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Death with Shelly Kagan (Edmundson)
Shelly Kagan (Yale) joins the wave of philosophy on the internet.
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The Hopeless Association of American Law Schools
With another meeting on the horizon, I thought I’d flag my post on the AALS meetings from a few years ago. Whether it is the meetings of the American Law & Economics Association, or the annual Analytic Legal Philosophy conference, or the newer Empirical Legal Studies conferences, my sense is that specialist meetings of scholars…
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Students Suing Their Law Schools: A Trend?
Curious National Law Journal story here.
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Why Sometimes It’s Nice to be Editor of the PGR
There are some downsides to being, as PGR Advisory Board member Alex Byrne (MIT) put it some years ago, "the most powerful person in philosophy"–including the fact that I’m not, yet bear the costs (as Byrne’s joke brings out) of sometimes being perceived as such. Anyone who peruses Cyberspace knows some of the costs: personal…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that