February 2009
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Class Action Settlement Against Google Which Affects Book Authors
Thom Brooks (Newcastle) has useful details here.
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Another Informative Piece on “Experimental Philosophy”
Here. And it ends on the right note: Nietzsche was right (in more ways than one)!
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Hunter from Melbourne to New York Law School
Dan Hunter (intellectual property, Cyberlaw) at the University of Melbourne Law School has accepted a tenured offer from New York Law School, where he has been visiting.
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Monahan from Missouri to Minnesota
Amy Monahan (tax, employee benefits, health care), Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri, Columbia, has accepted a tenured offer from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she is currently visiting.
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Michigan Makes Offer to Schmaltz at Duke
Tad Schmaltz (early modern philosophy) at Duke University has a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Students interested in this area weighing Michigan and Duke will want to keep an eye on what happens.
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Moody-Adams from Cornell to Columbia
Michele Moody-Adams (moral and political philosophy) at Cornell University has accepted appointment as Dean of Columbia College at Columbia University. It's not clear from this announcement how much she will be involved with philosophy teaching in her new role at Columbia.
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A Counterpetition to the APA Emerges: Discrimination Against Gay Men and Women Really Isn’t Discrimination!
The petition is here. Its arguments were addressed in the earlier thread, but this has made no impact on these philosophers. I applaud them, though, for signing their their names to this, rather than "signing" anonymously (which is tantamount to not signing–the same person could "sign anonymously" 200 times). So far it has 39 actual signatures; I shall
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The Plantinga-Dennett Session at the Central Division APA
A number of readers have asked me about this (admittedly opinionated) account of the session, since the account mentions the fact that I was in attendance. I did stay for about 20-25 minutes of Plantinga's presentation, but it was sufficiently bad (in part because repetitive of arguments previously, and rather decisively, criticized), that I left and so did
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Solum’s Entry-Level Hiring Reports for 2008-09…
…begins! Larry has created a new on-line reporting system, which will save him (hopefully) a lot of work and also result in more information being available in the end. If you are a candidate, or a hiring chair, or a placement director for your school, please do report your results!
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Bowling Green Retains Jacobson in Face of UCSD Offer
Daniel Jacobson (ethics, metaethics, aesthetics), Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, has turned down the senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego. That's a major retention coup for Bowling Green!
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