July 2008
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Most Heavily Trafficked Blogs by Law Professors
Blog Emperor Caron, who never met a ranking he didn’t like, has updated his periodic report on the blogs run by law professors with the most visitors. Of the top five, four have almost nothing to do with law, and four are right-wing or far right-wing in their political orientation. What this tells us, I…
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“Nietzsche’s Naturalism Reconsidered”
More information and link here for readers who might be interested in the topic.
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Simons from Leeds to Trinity College Dublin
Peter Simons, a leading figure in metaphysics at the University of Leeds, has accepted a Chair in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, starting February 1, 2009, where he will also become Head of Department. That’s a major loss for Leeds (which will continue to have a strong metaphysics group, however), and a significant addition for…
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Philosopher Meets Intellectual Historian
A case study of the difficulties that ensue.
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“Nietzsche’s Naturalism Reconsidered”
More information and link here for any readers who might be interested in the topic.
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New Contact Info for…
…Brian Leiter. I’ll continue using the Texas e-mail for awhile, but the Chicago e-mail is already working.
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XXII World Congress of Philosophy (J. Stanley)
In a week, the XXII World Congress of Philosophy will begin in Seoul, South Korea. I’m going to give a talk in sessions organized by the Korean Philosophy Association, and try to attend as many as I can of the more than 1500 talks. On the assumption that I will learn something interesting about philosophical…
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Parkes from Hawaii to University College Cork
Graham Parkes (Heidegger, Nietzsche, Asian philosophy), a longtime member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, is moving to the Department of Philosophy at University College Cork in Ireland, where he will be Head of Department.
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“The Market for Bad Legal Scholarship”: Green v. Simon
Bruce Green (Fordham) replies to William Simon’s shocking "j’accuse" that we noted last year. I’m not sure Professor Simon comes off looking too good after Professor Green is done, but I readily admit this is not my field. Of course, the "market for bad legal scholarship" (though not in Green’s precise sense) is huge–and thanks…
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Jason Solomon (Georgia) is Gunning for Yale…
…on grounds that their faculty may be outstanding, but the education ain’t great. I don’t know how much credence we ought to put in the Princeton Review ‘student satisfaction’ data, but he’s probably right that everyone should score Yale Law School a ‘3’ in the next US News surveys, but for a somewhat different reason: …
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A Brief Reply from the Chronicle of Higher Ed
Regarding the previous item, I received the following note from Alex Kafka, a Deputy Editor at the Chronicle, who gave me permission to post it here: Thanks for your interest in, and careful reading of, The Chronicle Review. Please send essays, ideas, story tips, etc. any time (please see guidelines here). We are always seeking…
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An Open Letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education: Please, Oh Please, Could You Publish Something about Philosophy by Someone Who Knows Something (even a little!) about the Subject?
Bernard Kobes (Arizona State) calls my attention to the latest travesty about academic philosophy to stain the pages of the Chronicle of Higher Education, this one by Russell Jacoby whose qualification for the task–brace yourselves–is that he is a "Professor in Residence" in the History Department at UCLA. This item is not quite as perniciously…
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A 3-Year JD/MBA?
Lawrence Cunningham (George Washington) comments.
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Steve Poole on Steve Fuller: “It’s intellectual quackery like this that gives philosophy of science a bad name.”
Via Chris Bertram (Bristol), I learn of this pleasing excorciation of the remarkably silly and pernicious "philosopher" of science (now a sociologist) Steve Fuller, who is also a shill for Intelligent Design.
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Friday Poem: “900#”
900 # I am on holdWaiting for wordHow long has it beenLong enough God’s telephoneIs always busyNo one everPicks up Every few secondsChimes then voicesGod loves you they sayFor your patience God forbidHe’d answer in personAre the angelsOn vacation Bet you SatanHas voice mail waitin’ 1/28-3/l6/97. 7/1/08 Copyright 1997,…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…