January 2008
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Nietzsche Attack Ad
Kant strikes back (not quite as funny as the Kant attack ad–but what did you expect, this is Kant?). (As a side note, the best recent scholarship suggests that Nietzsche did not suffer from syphilis: see, e.g., Richard Schain, The Legend of Nietzsche’s Syphilis (Westwood: Greenwood Press, 2001).) (Thanks to Peter Kail for the pointer.)
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Three Finalists for MSU Law Deanship
Story here; the three finalists to be Dean at the Michigan State University College of Law are: Frederic White, the current Dean of the law school at Golden Gate University; Suellyn Scarnecchia, current Dean of the law school at the University of New Mexico; and Joan Howarth, a law professor at the University of Nevada,…
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Hot Topics in Ethics?
A follow-up to the successful thread on epistemology awhile back: what are the hot topics in ethics these days? Moral psychology, both empirical and from the armchair, seems especially lively. The nature of reasons too. What else? The more detail the better, and feel free to post links to on-line resources (papers, blog discussions, etc.). …
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The Day of Reckoning Gets a Bit Closer for the AutoAdmit Sociopaths and Misogynists
Not surprisingly, a court has granted the motion of the plaintiffs in the AutoAdmit lawsuit for expedited discovery, including permission"to subpoena the Internet service-providers responsible for the posters’ IP addresses in order to identify them," as well as to depose Jarret Cohen, the insurance salesman who owns the Autoadmit cesspool, and Anthony Ciolli, the former…
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Wilcox from Temple to San Francisco State
Shelley Wilcox (ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy), assistant professor of philosophy at Temple University, has accepted a tenured appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.
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Eight Philosophers Win NEH Fellowships
For some reason, these awards (announced December 2007) are not yet on the NEH homepage, but presumably will be before long. The successful philosophers and their projects are: Jessica Berry (Georgia State University): "Friedrich Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition" John Doris (Washington University, St. Louis): "The Philosophy and Psychology of the Self" Fred Feldman…
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Two Insiders for Finalists in UVA Deanship Search
Story here. The finalists are Paul Mahoney (corporate law) and Rip Verkerke (employment and labor law). Both obvious and excellent choices from within the ranks, and both will, for reasons recently noted, have their work cut out for them.
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Väyrynen from UC Davis to Leeds
Pekka Väyrynen (ethics), assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California at Davis, has accepted the position of Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds (turning down, in the process, a tenured counter-offer from Davis). Leeds has also made three other more junior appointments in areas like philosophy of language and philosophy…
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Where to start LEMMings Reading?
A reader writes: I’m currently a graduate student in political theory (in a political science department) but I’ve become very interested in a much wider range of philosophical areas. Not too long ago I stumbled onto your blog, of which I’ve become a regular reader, and I noticed you recently gave some advice to someone…
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Which top school do law students think is most overrated in US News?
A reader sent me the results of a poll being conducted on a genuine pre-law chat board (in other words, not Autoadmit) about which school is "most overrated," referring to its US News rank. (No over- or under-ratings occur, of course, in responsible rankings.) 21.5% of the 200 students who voted on this site picked…
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McCain and Clinton Exposed
Revealing portraits of the two front-runners, here and here. (The latter is mostly about Bill, but since Hillary’s main claim to pertinent "experience" grows out of her marriage to the former President, it is surely relevant about what her actual policies are likely to be.) Of course, neither may be front-runners for long, given the…
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Klarman from Virginia to Harvard
Michael Klarman (legal history, constitutional law) at the University of Virginia has accepted the senior offer from Harvard Law School. (The HLS press release is here.) He is the fifth former member of the UVA law faculty to migrate north in the last (roughly) seven years; the others are Jack Goldsmith, Daryl Levinson, William Stuntz,…
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In Memoriam: Mary Mothersill (1923-2008)
Professor Mothersill died earlier this week, though I have not yet been able to locate any on-line information or memorial notices. She was Professor Emerita at Barnard College, and was, of course, well-known for her many contributions to aesthetics. I hope to post more information soon. UPDATE: A very lovely memorial notice by a former…
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Australian Economist Quiggin on Sunstein, the Internet, and Democracy
An interestingly different perspective here.
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It’s not often that Ronald Dworkin and I are invoked in support of the same proposition…
..but a reader points out a rare instance, an appropriately scathing review of a childishly stupid book by a childishly stupid author, one Jonah Goldberg (about whom we had occasion to comment in passing long ago). The passage in question: Goldberg falsely saddles liberalism not just with relativism but with all manner of alleged errors…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that