November 2008
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Personal Ads of the Randians
Seriously. (Thanks to Gary Chartier for the pointer.)
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Levmore on “The Internet’s Anonymity Problem”
This is quite interesting, especially for those who followed the Autoadmit fiasco (though Dean Levmore's main case study is "Juicy Campus").
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Applying Twice to the Same Programs?
An undergraduate student writes: I’m in a small and unrenowned state school, with wonderful but unrenowned philosophy faculty. I’ve been given the impression that, not coming from a typical feeder school, I’ll need to prove myself outstanding in every way to catch the attention of the top phil mind / phil cog sci programs. My…
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What Happens on a Callback and What *Should* Happen?
Dan Markel (Florida State) has initiated a useful discussion here. Job candidates should, of course, ask any school flying them out in advance what the schedule will be.
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Leiter v. Shapiro on Legal Philosophy on Bloggingheads TV
Details and link here.
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This Nietzsche Conference Might Interest Some Philosophers…
…who don’t have a primary interest in Nietzsche. It would be especially nice if some philosophers of mind and action who aren’t otherwise specialists in Nietzsche were there and/or submitted papers.
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Dean Cogan on Whittier’s Battle with the ABA
Dean Neil Cogan of Whittier writes about his school's experience with the ABA accreditation process.
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Rahm Emanuel and Hegel
Story here.
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Publishing in “Graduate” Journals?
A young philosopher in a post-doc position writes: I’m a regular reader of your Leiter reports blog on the philosophy profession. I wonder if you might consider soliciting responses from readers on the subject of graduate journals, by which I mean not journals on the graduate experience, but philosophy journals whose aim is to disseminate…
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Epstein to Retire in 2010, but Will Continue Teaching at Chicago and NYU
My colleague Richard Epstein–who has been on phased retirement for several years now, teaching in the falls at NYU as a visiting professor, and then teaching in the Spring at Chicago as well as serving as a permanent Fellow at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto in the Winter–will conclude the phased retirement from Chicago officially in 2010, but…
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Philosopher Hacking Honored by SSHRC of Canada with “Gold Medal” for Research
Ian Hacking (emeritus, Toronto) is certainly deserving of this recognition.
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Karl Kraus’s Favorite Journalist Thomas “No Ideas and the Ability to Express Them” Friedman…
…finally comes clean (at least in the parody issue of the NY Times): I have no business holding a pen, at least with intent to write. I know, you’re thinking I’m going too far. I haven’t always been wrong about everything. I recently made some sense on global warming and what we needed to do…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…