February 2009
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Speaking of Cyber-Cesspools…
…Autoadmit and the two women harassed by the anonymous sociopaths and misogynists that populate the site are discussed in a new article by a well-known journalist, David Margolick. There are a number of interesting bits of information in the article that were new to me: *The article identifies a number of the heretofore pseudonymous defendants. …
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UC San Diego Makes Senior Offer to Bowling Green’s Jacobson
Daniel Jacobson (ethics, metaethics, aesthetics) at Bowling Green State University has a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego. Students thinking about UCSD or Bowling Green will want to keep an eye on what happens here. (Jacobson, by the way, is writing the volume on Mill in…
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Four (!) More Senior Hires for North Carolina
In addition to Robert Mosteller (evidence) from Duke, the University of North Carolina School of Law has made four more senior hires: Victor Flatt (environmental law) from the University of Houston; Joan Krause (health law) from the University of Houston; Holning Lau (family law, law and sexuality) from Hofstra University; and Rich Saver (health law)…
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Strandburg from DePaul to NYU
Katherine Strandburg (intellectual property, patents) at DePaul University has accepted a senior offer from New York University School of Law. The NYU news item is here.
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Iowa Dean Carolyn Jones to Step Down in 2010
She had been Dean since 2004.
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University of Arizona Responds to Draconian Budget Cuts
Here. Arizona will also impose one-week 'furloughs' in the coming fiscal year, in addition to a host of other cut-backs. As the linked statement makes clear, students and the community will feel the effect of these cuts.
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The One School-Related “Chat” Site That May Have Been Worse than Autoadmit….
…has gone under. In a small bit of cyber-justice, the first result for a search of the founder of this Cyber-Cesspool, Matt Ivester, is this. One wonders whether the marketplace will also exact its own penalty, as happened in the case of one of the Autoadmit administrators? Mr. Ivester is plainly a far more culpable party.
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Hot Topics in Metaphysics?
Readers have been asking for awhile that I run some more "hot topics" threads, like the earlier ones on ethics and epistemology. I apologize for not running these more frequently, and will plan on running more of these in 2009. So what are some of the hot topics in "metaphysics"? The specialty as a whole…
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Della Rocca’s “Spinoza”
I was pleased to see this excellent review of the volume on Spinoza by Michael Della Rocca (Yale) in the Routledge Philosophers series I edit. The introductory and concluding paragraphs of the review: Spinoza is at once an excellent introduction to Spinoza's philosophy and a major contribution to Spinoza scholarship. The book's central theme, the…
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Luciano Floridi (Hertfordshire) Wins “Barwise Prize” from APA
Announcement here.
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Lathrope from Hastings to San Francisco
Daniel Lathrope, longtime tax scholar and teacher at the University of California Hastings College of Law, has accepted a Chair in the law school at the University of San Francisco.
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Five Finalists for Dean at the University of Arizona
Here; they are: Gregory Hicks, Interim Dean at Washington/Seattle; Marc Miller (Arizona); Rex Perschbacher, former Dean at UC Davis; Lawrence Ponoroff, current Dean at Tulane; and Margaret Raymond (Iowa).
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii