March 2009
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An On-Line Resource About Islamic Philosophy
Here. (Thanks to Peter Ludlow for the pointer.) I am not competent to assess its reliability, but welcome comment from knowledgeable readers.
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Hastings Dean Nell Newton to be New Dean at Notre Dame
Nell Newton, Dean of the University of California Hastings College of Law since 2006, will step down this summer and become Dean of the Notre Dame Law School. Newton was previously Dean at the University of Connecticut School of Law before her move to Hastings. UPDATE: The Notre Dame news release is now up. Notre…
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Temple’s Phoebe Haddon Named Dean at Maryland
The Maryland news release is here and Maryland professor Danielle Citron comments here.
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Setiya to Remain at Pittsburgh
Kieran Setiya (ethics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, has turned down a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Pittsburgh has recently warded off several attempted raids on its "value theory" faculty: Stephen Engstrom (Kant, ethics) and Michael Thompson (ethics, political philosophy, action theory) were…
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A traitor to his class…
…probably speaks the truth about how the allegedly prudent wing of the Republocrat Party is handling the current crisis of capitalism: From the beginning of the recent crisis, starting with Bear Stearns, I have emphasized that nearly all of the financial institutions at risk of insolvency have enough liabilities to their own bondholders to fully…
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A Victory for the Texas Taliban in Texas
Speaking of those living in the "dark ages," the Texas Taliban have struck again: The State Board of Education on Friday passed science curriculum standards that members described as a compromise between those who are critical of teaching evolutionary theories without scrutiny and those who feared attacks on evolution would lead to the teaching of…
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Berkeley and John Yoo, Again
The propriety of action by Berkeley, about which we have written before, may become a more complicated question depending on how these developments play out.
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The Argument from Moral Disagreement
Last fall, I gave a paper on "Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement in Nietzsche" at the annual NYU History of Modern Philosophy conference, and then posted a revised version on-line here. Here is the abstract of the paper: This essay offers a new interpretation of Nietzsche's argument for moral skepticism (i.e., the metaphysical thesis that…
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Friday Poem: “What Are You Doing”
What Are You Doing Having done what I have doneHaving done good or ill well or poorlyHaving done until exhausted by time and circumstanceNow then what am I doing here after all What am I doingAnd what are you doingHave you added up the days and hoursWhen the doing did nothingWhen your absence would have…
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What Kind of Obligation do Philosophers Have to Referee Papers?
A philosopher writes: I've recently been talking to Journal editors in various fields, who all lament the difficulty of securing quality referee reports. Certainly, authors can often be heard voicing the same complaint, and one wonders if this is implicated in the dearth, alleged in the recent Chronicle article, of Journal submissions by senior academics…
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Gillies from Michigan to Rutgers
Anthony Gillies (philosophy of language, formal semantics, epistemology, philosophical logic, decision/game theory) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University at New Brunswick.
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Inside the Mind of Religiously-Inspired Bigots
Edward Feser (Pasadena City College), author of the pro-discrimination petition to the APA, offers some insight into how religiously inspired bigots think in his curious book The Last Superstition. I quote some selections from the Preface: At the time of this writing, exactly one week has passed since the Supreme Court of the State of California…
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Two More Senior Hires for UC Irvine: Chacon from UC Davis, Tomlins from the ABF
The new law school at the University of California at Irvine has made two more senior hires: Jennifer Chacon (immigration law) from the University of California at Davis, and Christopher Tomlins, a leading legal historian, who is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation.
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The Best Academic Publishers in Law?
Which academic presses are the "best" in legal scholarship, i.e., which publish the highest quality new legal scholarship? A new poll here. This obviously excludes publishers who mainly produce casebooks and textbooks. UPDATE: A reader points out that MIT Press probably should have been included; they don't publish a lot in law, but they do…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…