August 2008
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On-Line Philosophical Conference on Consciousness in the Works
Details here. The always interesting David Rosenthal (CUNY) will be the keynote Cyber-speaker.
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Republican “Base” Ecstatic Now that Ignorant Yahoo is on the Ticket
I think that’s the correct translation of the point of this story, which, alas, omits her fondness for creationism. She is, in short, the female Mike Huckabee, another out-of-his-depth yahoo from the Republican primaries. UPDATE: Republican elites, such as these right-wing bloggers, are not amused by the choice. ONE MORE: "Ignorant yahoo" may barely do…
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Interested in University of Chicago Candidates on the Teaching Market?
We have an excellent pool this year, and a Placement Committee at the Law School that stands ready to assist hiring schools by providing additional information on the candidates (both Chicago grads and Bigelows). The Chair is Douglas Baird, and the other members are Lisa Bernstein and myself. Feel free to e-mail or phone any…
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Friday Poem: “The Objects in My Room”
The objects in my room My eyes fall sometimes on the objects in my roomA stolid desk the cabinet that holds my music’s breathThe bookshelves colorful and slim an Afghan rug stillClinging to its rhythmic red the busy reproductionsOn the walls the table buried under scribbles much like theseAll familiar housemates co-conspirators of dreamsWho…
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Appiah and Knobe on Identity Politics
Here. And now that Senator McCain has chosen a woman as his running mate, we will find out whether Senator Clinton’s supporters are really committed to justice and sanity, or just to identity politics of the most vile sort. UPDATE: So the Alaska Taliban has joined the ticket.
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Smith from Yale to Harvard
Henry E. Smith, a leading property scholar at Yale Law School, has accepted a senior offer from Harvard Law School, where he will start January 1. Five or six years ago, I think most informed folks would have said that Yale Law School had the strongest law faculty in the U.S., and that Harvard was,…
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O’Kelley from Georgia to Seattle
Charles O’Kelley (corporate law) at the University of Georgia has accepted a senior offer on the law faculty at Seattle University. The Seattle press release is here. Seattle has had a busy year of senior hiring!
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The “Prudent Wing” of the Ruling Class Party in the U.S. Has Its Annual Convention
Story here; an excerpt: The Democratic party bills itself as an advocate for the common man, but here, the lobby was suffused with the balm of power and money. Justified or not, their sense of entitlement, a confidence that the wheel of government will be back in their hands soon, was manifest. Important men and…
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Two “Philosophers” on Evil
Obama v. McCain.
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Philosopher’s Annual Addendum
The PA’s "Introduction" is now on-line (click "introduction"), explaning the selection process this year.
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Two New Volumes in “The Routledge Philosophers” Series: Carman on Merleau-Ponty, Della Rocca on Spinoza
I was delighted to receive in the mail today copies of the newest volumes in The Routledge Philosophers series: Merleau-Ponty by Taylor Carman (Barnard College & Columbia University) and Spinoza by Michael Della Rocca (Yale University). Anyone familiar with the work of these scholars knows that these books are likely to quickly become the leading…
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“You know you live in Canada…”
writes a law colleague in Ottawa when, "You open up the pages of the *right* wing Globe and Mail and there’s a piece on Friedan and feminism by revolutionary marxist Stephanie Coontz, an actual member of the small revolutionary socialist group Solidarity." Meanwhile, south of the border, the "marketplace of ideas" consists in listening to…
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WSJ Covers Possible Change to US News Ranking Formula Involving Part-Time Student Credentials
Here. Of course, with respect to ‘gaming’ the rankings, this is the mere tip of the iceberg, as we have noted previously. We still await Mr. Morse’s promised response to the more serious problems that now discredit the results of the annual exercise.
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Philosophy in High School in Australia
Story here. (Thanks to Peter Ludlow for the pointer.)
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…