January 2009
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Should Journals Publish the Name(s) of the Referee(s) of Accepted Articles?
Jamie Dreier (Brown) raises the issue here, and philosophers weigh in.
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Choosing Between Graduate Study in a Philosophy Department vs. a History and Philosophy of Science Program?
Christopher Hitchcock, a distinguished philosopher of science at the California Institute of Technology and member of the PGR Advisory Board, has drafted, with input from some other philosophers of science on the Advisory Board (Craig Callender, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Alexander Rosenberg, and William Wimsatt), a very useful statement for students interested in philosophy of science and cognate fields and trying…
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Fun with an Anonymous Fool
Spiros knows how to have it. (And the title of this post is obviously not redundant.) Apologies to Billy Joel fans. Anyone who blogs should save a copy in order to paste into messages as needed.
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Former Kentucky Dean Allan Vestal to Become New Dean at Drake
The Drake press release is here.
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More on Gaza, and an Open Letter
This orthodox Jewish philosophy professor has a blog that is very much worth reading; he and a colleague have also drafted a fine open letter in protest of the Israeli barbarism in Gaza. UPDATE: Noam Chomsky has weighed in with suitably scathing commentary.
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“Advice to a Young Mathematician”
Varol Akman (Bilkent) calls my attention to this piece by an eminent British mathematician, Sir Michael Atiyah, which will, as Professor Akman notes, likely have resonance for philosophers as well.
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Walt to Return Full-Time to Virginia from Ohio State
Steven Walt (commercial law, legal philosophy) will return full-time to the Virginia faculty, after having accepted a part-time post at Ohio State last year.
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Top Ten Faculties in “History of Analytic Philosophy (including Wittgenstein)” in the English-Speaking World
In the specialty rankings, faculties are grouped according to their mean score, rounded to the nearest .5. In parentheses after the school's name, the median and mode scores are listed. Within the grouping, faculties are listed alphabetically. Group 1 (1-2) (rounded mean of 4.5) (median, mode) University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (4.5,…
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Dharmapala from U Conn Economics to U of Illinois Law
Dhammika Dharmapala, an expert on tax law and policy who is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Illinois College of Law.
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More Law Profs Take White House Legal Jobs: Meltzer from Harvard, Trevor Morrison from Columbia
Details here. Will there be anyone left on the Harvard Law School faculty by the time Obama is done?
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How are Budget Problems Affecting Philosophy Departments?
David Reidy (Tennessee/Knoxville) writes: I wonder whether you might invite readers to share significant threats to philosophy departments — beyond the ordinary hiring freezes, etc. — arising out of administrative attempts to meet looming budget cuts. I can report that here at the University of Tennessee the Dean of Arts and Sciences has announced his…
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Some Appointments to the Obama Administration You Might Have Missed…
but since they involve colleagues of mine in the legal academy,I've been noticing them, and they are important. Marty Lederman and Neal Katyal, both on the Georgetown faculty, are not (alas) radicals or revolutionaries, but on some of the key issues of the last eight years–unchecked executive power, unreviewable detention of American citizens, the use…
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Obama Actually Mentions “Nonbelievers” in His Inaugural Addres…
…and not to denounce them either. Is this another first in American history? Does anyone know?
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Graduate School and Family: When?
A philosophy graduate student writes: I am a female graduate student entering into the dissertation phase of my schooling. I am in a top-25 philosophy dept at a large research university, and I hope to get a job at a university like the one I am attending. My question is when is the best time…
I don’t think it’s that the philosophical debates will become irrelevant in your example, so much that your example demonstrates…