February 2009
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The New Philosophical Gourmet Report for 2009 is…
…now on-line. Past experience suggests there will be various typos and other errors (e.g., broken links) discovered during the week; please e-mail me if you spot one. (Please include in your e-mail the URL of the page where the error occurs.) My thanks again to the members of the Advisory Board and the close to…
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“Gourmet” Reports for Other Disciplines?
With a new PGR imminent, I ought to return to a topic about which I get asked periodically. For example, several months ago, a graduate student in art history wrote: I have been an interested reader of the Philosophical Gourmet Report for several years. As an undergraduate art history major applying to graduate school, I wished…
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Bard Faculty Member’s Contract Terminated on Political Grounds?
It does rather look that way. Apparently it's verboten to think that Palestinians are human beings too. (Thanks to Jonathan Kramnick for the pointer.)
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Toronto’s Weisberg Wins 2009 “Rutgers Young Epistemologist” Prize
Jonathan Weisberg, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, is the 2009 winner for his paper "Bootstrapping in General."
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February JFP
I have not seen it myself or checked the numbers, but a job seeker writes: The new jfp came out. Last year the february jfp had 73 openings. This year it has 23. But then there are the "web only" ads also posted, and on the same day as the "print" version of the jfp. Last year…
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The On-Line Consciousness Conference…
…has begun.
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Where are the women?
Ann Bartow (South Carolina) notes that the list of the "ten most cited faculty" during 2005-08 included no women. Of course, there were many women who were among the "ten most cited" members of the most highly cited faculties. Here, per Professor Bartow's request, are the ten most cited female law professors (with the caveat that…
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Dutch TV Looks at the Current Crisis of Capitalism…
…through the lens of discussions with University of Chicago faculty and students. (To see the picture, you may need to "x" out the box to the right of the screen, depending on your browser.) Much of the program is in English, with Dutch subtitles. 25-30 minutes in, Douglas Baird calls for the firing squad for…
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Dutch TV Looks at the Current Crisis of Capitalism…
…through the lens of discussions with University of Chicago faculty and students. (To see the picture, you may need to "x" out the box to the right of the screen, depending on your browser.) Much of the program is in English, with Dutch subtitles. Martha Nussbaum (at roughly 37 minutes and thereafter) and myself (25-30 minutes…
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Two More Senior Hires for UC Irvine: Leslie from Chicago-Kent, Reese from Texas
Christopher Leslie (antitrust) at Chicago-Kent College of Law and R. Anthony Reese (intellectual property, copyright) at the University of Texas School of Law have accepted senior offers from the new law school at the University of California at Irvine, to begin July 1. Reese is turning down in the process offers from NYU and Stanford. …
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New PGR Will be “Live” On-Line on Monday, February 23
At the usual site. Various items are still being proofed, and we decided it is better to go live Monday, so that any remaining errors can be corrected quickly (Blackwell technical staff won't be available during the weekend to fix problems). Thanks to all for your patience. UPDATE: Link now fixed!
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“Top Ten” Law Faculties with the Most Scholarly Impact During the Last Four Years
New study here. It was prompted by some of the moves since the 2007 study of highly cited law faculties (Sunstein's move from Chicago to Harvard, and now to the Obama Administration; Chemerinsky's move from Duke to UC Irvine; Lessig's move from Stanford to Harvard; Epstein's decision to formally split his time between Chicago and NYU; among…
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Knobe Wins SPP’s Stanton Prize
Joshua Knobe, currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who is moving to a tenure-stream position in the Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Program at Yale University for the fall, has won this year's Stanton Prize given by the Society for Philosophy & Psychology which "is given to a scholar…
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Credit Crisis Affecting Law Students?
One worrisome indicator here.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii