July 2008
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More Trouble for Humanities Support in Britain?
The AHRC "research leave" program may be getting the axe. Several philosophers are quoted in the article.
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Kelly on the Renewed Interest in Phenomenology
Sean Kelly (Harvard) and the Times Literary Supplement have kindly given permission to publish this quite interesting essay of Professor Kelly’s from a few months ago about the renewed interest in phenomenology among many Anglophone philosophers: Download tls_kelly_husserl_published_version.doc. (The essay is, in part, a review of David Woodruff Smith’s book on Husserl in the Routledge…
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Senator Obama as a Teacher at the University of Chicago Law School
A few comments on the NY Times article on the subject. I preface this by saying that I’ve never met Obama, he was not teaching when I visited there, and I’ve not discussed the article, or their experience with Senator Obama, with any of my new colleagues. From the Times: At a school where economic…
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South Carolina Law Review Trying to Institute “Peer Review”
The proposal is here. My guess is they will have trouble getting suitable referees. Referees who volunteer may not necessarily be the most qualified, but time will tell. But it’s a worthy experiment, and hopefully it will succeed.
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August Advertising Discount
The top left advertising spot is still available for August, now at the discounted rate of $200. (It would take the place of the current "Advertise on Leiter Reports" icon.) In addition, at least one spot is available each month this fall. There are more details on advertising rates and site traffic here. Even this…
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More Corrupt Hiring Practices at DOJ
"Monica Goodling" will now be synonymous for "political hack undermining the integrity of law enforcement". The disgraceful graduate of Regent University School of Law will, one expects, be disbarred for her violation of federal law governing the hiring for non-political positions. An excerpt from the report: We found that Goodling’s Internet research on candidates for…
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Seto on Dean Simson’s Call for a Boycott of US News
Ted Seto (Loyola/LA) has some interesting observations here. (See also the first comment there.) Professor Seto is surely right that the biggest problem for US News, if schools refused to report data, is that the magazine would have no access to the per capita expenditures data, which is often the tail that wags the ranking…
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Economist Meets Philosopher…
…and a different set of problems ensue. Philosophers will cringe when Gintis writes: It is refreshing indeed to find a moral philosopher capable of expressing such elementary, yet widely ignored truths as "our moral beliefs are simultaneously relative to our evolutionary history and our cultural background, but at the same time objectively true" (p. 291).…
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Houston Sends Its Alumni Magazine to Every Law Professor in the United States…
…which is always a waste of money, but especially so when the magazine continues to tout the meaningless "improvement" in its U.S. News ranking. Tsk, tsk!
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Friday Poem: “Olympiad”
Olympiad Here in Americadamp as a sumpI’m pleading my caseto a jury of wallssearching for someonefriendly to gloomwho will swearI am guiltywhatever the charge Under the officialOlympic sunMammon is strokinghis money bonethe Goodyear blimpsees no one alonebut there’s leadin the popcornglue in the cokedown in the Bottomswe’re dizzy with smoke My Lord OzymandiasConsultant for Soulhas…
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Former Cardozo Dean Paul Verkuil Named Interim Dean at Miami
The University of Miami press release is here.
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A Proposal about Single-Submissions and Timeliness of Refereeing of Articles
A young philosopher writes: Currently, young faculty and grad students can find it to be very difficult to get published in top journals since so many of these journals can take so long (one journal took 18 months to get back to me with a rejection!). On the other hand, in my experience with A-level…
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More on Northwestern’s 24-Month JD
Here. The best line comes at the end, from Geoffrey Stone (Chicago): "Northwestern gets more tuition with less teaching." UPDATE: Larry Ribstein (Illinois), true believer in markets, speaks up for the Northwestern plan: "This may or may not be something the market wants, and it’s almost certainly not something everybody wants. I think you get…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…