March 2009
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ASU’s White Named Dean at Miami
Patricia White, the former and quite successful Dean of the law school at Arizona State University, has been appointed Dean at the University of Miami. That's a very good catch for Miami!
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The “Top Ten” Academic Presses in Philosophy
So the earlier poll, with more than 500 votes, is now complete. The results struck me as fairly sensible. Oxford University Press was the hands-down winner, and Cambridge University Press was a distant, but clear, second. Blackwell came in third, and Harvard University Press fourth. Three presses were fairly close to each other in the…
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The World’s Most Alienating Airport?
How could it be otherwise?
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Ken Taylor (Stanford) Blasts the NEH!
And for good reason on the evidence adduced.
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Priest from Northwestern to Yale
Claire Priest (legal history) at Northwestern University has accepted a senior offer from Yale Law School. She is the second senior appointment in legal history for Yale in the last year (the other being John Witt from Columbia). (Priest is, for those who are wondering, also the daughter of Yale Law School faculty member George…
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The world’s most alienating airport?
How could it be otherwise?
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Chalmers to Take Up Half-Time Post at NYU for Next Three Years
David Chalmers (philosophy of mind and language) at the Australian National University has accepted a half-time post at New York University, where he will teach each fall for the next three years; the rest of the year, he will be at the ANU (because of the differing academic calendars, this is tantamount to a regular…
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Two Junior Laterals: Manley, Yalcin
I usually don't cover junior lateral hires, except in unusual cases (like Knobe), but a lot of folks have e-mailed me about these folks, so they are probably in the same category ("unusually high-profile junior philosophers likely to get tenure soon" or something like that), and should be flagged for prospective students: David Manley (metaphysics,…
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Obama to Nominate Yale Law Dean Harold Koh as Legal Adviser…
…to the U.S. State Department. Longtime YLS faculty member Kate Stith will serve as Acting Dean.
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Violating Copyright Through On-Line Translations a Crime in Argentina?
Very curious story about a philosophy professor posting translations on-line. (Thanks to Derek Bowman for the pointer.)
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Marjorie Grene Memorial Notices
Updates in the original post here.
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Longtime William & Mary Faculty Member Davison Douglas Named Dean
News release here.
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Why I’m Cutting Back on Covering Faculty Moves
Time is the main reason, but there is a particular reason I'm cutting back here (rather than stopping the blog altogether, which, frankly, I may also do). Unlike in philosophy, where individual faculty moves can be of extreme importance to prospecive students, that is rarely the case in law: the value of information about any…
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A New Survey: Best Publishers of Philosophy Books?
The poll is here. It is limited to presses that publish a significant amount of original philosophy work in English; thus, presses that publish mainly textbooks or editions of classic works are not listed. This poll will run through next Wednesday. UPDATE: Kluwer merged with Springer, so the listing for Kluwer should be thought of as Kluwer/Springer…
Don’t click the transcript – it’s a mis-transcription that makes Harvey sound unhinged. The bit of it that’s visible without…