May 2008
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Waldron on the Case for Prohibiting Hate Speech
Such regulations may work elsewhere, but will they work in the US?
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Waldron on the Prohibition of Hate Speech
Jeremy Waldron (NYU) has a quite interesting piece about freedom of speech in the current New York Review of (Each Other's) Books. (We've remarked previously on the general decline of the NY Review; one of the few bright spots lately have been Waldron's essays–one early piece of uncritical sycophancy excluded–which are refreshingly non-parochial and intelligent). …
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Information about MA and PhD Programs in Chinese Philosophy?
Manyul Im (Fairfield) is compiling the information. Help him out!
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Braun from Rochester to Buffalo
David Braun (philosophy of language and mind) has accepted the offer of the Romanell Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. That’s a significant hire for Buffalo!
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Rotunda from George Mason to Chapman
Ronald Rotunda (constitutional law, legal ethics) at George Mason University has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Chapman University, which has been steadily building its faculty in recent years. (Without Rotunda–who was the most cited member of the George Mason law faculty–George Mason would have dropped from a mean 190 cites per…
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A Good Year for Philosophy with the Newcombe Fellowships!
Eight Ph.D. students in philosophy have won Newcombe Fellowships this year; they are: Andrew Blom (University of Illinois, Chicago); David Dick (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Lauren Fleming (Georgetown University); Daniel Groll (University of Chicago); James Hebbeler (University of Notre Dame); Jacob Klein (Cornell University); Daniel Koltonski (Cornell University); Kelby Mason (Rutgers University, New Brunswick). …
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Another Nail in the Law Review Coffin?
Harvard Law School faculty adopts "open access" policy for all faculty writing.
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Leave it to a law professor to come to the defense of the honorary degree for Schlafly
The sordid details are here. Hills is an able scholar in his chosen fields, I’ve no idea what explains this sorry display. UPDATE: A reader asks: "why leave it to law profs?" Answer: because they’re more conservative, on average, than philosophy professors.
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Something Reasonably Sensible on Iran
In a U.S. newspaper no less. Maybe Senator Obama will restore some sanity to these discussions after all.
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U Conn’s Paul Berman Named New Dean at Arizona State
The ASU press release is here. Arizona State is one of those historically more regional schools with a very good eye for faculty talent and one that is chronically underranked by U.S. News (others similarly situated–sharp eye for faculty talent and underranked by U.S. News–would include the University of Arizona, Florida State, Chicago-Kent, San Diego,…
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A Favor, Once Again
I’d ask readers with blogs to please consider adding these blogs to their blogrolls (if they maintain one): Brian Leiter’s Legal Philosophy Blog Brian Leiter’s Nietzsche Blog Thanks.
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List to Split Between Government and Philosophy at LSE
Christian List (social choice theory, formal epistemology, political philosophy) in the Government Department at the London School of Economics will now split his time between Government and Philosophy at LSE.
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Two Lateral Hires for Illinois: Hamilton from Chicago-Kent, Thomas from Cincinnati
The University of Illinois College of Law has made two lateral hires with tenure: Daniel Hamilton (legal history, property, constitutional law) from the Chicago-Kent College of Law and Suja Thomas (civil procedure) from the University of Cincinnati.
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Centenary of Quine’s Birth is Coming on June 25…
…and many events are planned–the philosopher’s son, Douglas, has a page with all the information about the events, as well as lots of information about Quine.
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…