May 2008
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NYU’s Nagel Wins Rolf Schock Prize…
…in the category "Logic and Philosophy." (A more detailed announcement is here.) Past winners are W.V.O. Quine (late of Harvard) (1993), Michael Dummett (emeritus, Oxford) (1995), Dana Scott (emeritus, Carnegie-Mellon) (1997), John Rawls (late of Harvard) (1999), Saul Kripke (CUNY) (2001), Solomon Feferman (Stanford) (2003), and Jaakko Hintikka (BU) (2005).
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The History of Philosophy in 90 Seconds
Courtesy of New York-based comedian Jennifer Dziura, who was a philosophy major at Dartmouth. A few good laughs!
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Interim Dean Charles Cantu Named Dean at St. Mary’s
News release here.
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Zywicki Explains
Todd Zywicki (George Mason) has offered a "clarification" of his views, referencing this post of mine from a couple of weeks ago, which read in its entirety as follows: A Right-Wing Takeover of Dartmouth…Led by Conservative Law Profs??? In any case, one of the popular liberal blogs thinks it’s happening, naming George Mason’s Todd Zywicki…
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Alan Wolfe Is Clueless About Philosophy
Patricia Marino (Waterloo) calls my attention to this startling display of ignorance about the state of academic philosophy by Boston College political scientist Alan Wolfe. Wolfe writes: Contemporary academic philosophy is riven by a great divide: Either you adhere to a Continental perspective identified with Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger that addresses big speculative subjects…
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Corporate Practice Commentator Picks “The Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2007”
You can download the complete list here: Download the_top_10_corporate_and_securities_articles_of_2007.doc Eleven articles were chosen (due to ties); the authors of this year’s winning articles are: Tom Baker (Connecticut, moving to Penn) and Sean Griffith (Fordham); Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard); Stephen Choi (NYU) & Robert Thompson (Vanderbilt); John Coffee (Columbia); James Cox (Duke) & Randall Thomas (Vanderbilt); Theodore…
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“Logic for Politics”
That’s a new blog by my colleague (now emeritus) in Government and Philosophy here at UT Austin, the political philosopher David Braybrooke. I wish him success in this worthy endeavor! UPDATE: Two other philosophers–John Casey at Northeastern Illinois University and Colin Anderson at Hiram College (plus periodic guests)–have been undertaking the same project for awhile…
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Reading Janaway Reading Nietzsche
Details and links here.
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In Memoriam: Arthur W. Burks (1915-2008)
Professor Burks taught philosophy of science and logic, among other subjects, at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for nearly forty years (where he also earned his Ph.D. in philosophy), but may be best known for his pioneering work in computer science. The NY Times obituary is here. (Thanks to Michael Bishop for the…
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Mikos from UC Davis to Vanderbilt
Robert Mikos (federalism) at the University of California at Davis has accepted a tenured offer from Vanderbilt University.
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Egan from Michigan to Rutgers
Andy Egan (metaphysics, philosophy of language and mind, metaethics), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has accepted a tenured appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, to start in fall 2009.
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The Yale Law Journal Claims to Have Blind Review of Manuscripts…
…but do they really? YLJ has some explaining to do! UPDATE: Dara Purvis, outgoing EIC of the Yale Law Journal writes: To be honest, I am not 100% sure when and why the CV uploading capability was made, but I can tell you the only time that I as Editor-in-Chief looked at the CVs was…
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Wash U Awards Honorary Degree to Ignorant Bigot…
…and students and faculty turn their backs on the charade. Kudos to the many law faculty at Wash U who took a leadership role in protesting this inexcusable decision.
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Recent Texas Philosophy PhD Making History as Female Candidate for Parliament in Kuwait
In my thirteen years at UT Austin, I’ve had the privilege of working with many wonderful students, but Aseel al-Awadi (whose dissertation was directed by my colleague A.P. Martinich) is the only one making political history in her native country! Aseel is the first woman in Kuwait to be supported by a political group in…
David J. Gunkel «Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond» (MIT, 2023) Link:…