April 2009
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The 10 “Most Important” Philosophers of the Early Modern Period
With more than 700 votes cast, the results are in: 1. Immanuel Kant (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices) 2. David Hume loses to Immanuel Kant by 421–232 3. Rene Descartes loses to Immanuel Kant by 443–201, loses to David Hume by 335–314 4. John Locke loses to Immanuel Kant by 576–85, loses to Rene Descartes by…
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Solum Updates the Entry-Level Hiring Report
Here. He has the gross numbers (they do not discriminate based on either quality of placement or additional degrees–some ambitious soul might crunch those numbers), here's a size-adjusted ranking (total placements this year [so far] divided by average recent class size): 1. Yale University (.130) 2. Stanford University (.057) 3. Harvard University (.047) 4. University…
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Advertising for May on the Blog–A Discount
Either top spot (left or right) is still available for May, so we're slashing the price to $300 for each spot. Please contact me ASAP if you're interested. There is also at least one top spot available for each month for the remainder of the year, including the peak traffic fall months (Sept and Dec have only one…
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A Ranking Using US News Data, but without…
….a lot of the irrelevant or unreliable noise. These are the work of Nathan Gimpel. If nothing else, it hammers home how the inexplicable weightings of 12 different factors drive the "nonsense number" that is the overall rank in US News.
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“Top 10” Articles in Corporate & Securities Law for 2008…
…based on a poll by Corporate Practice Commentator. Authors of the winning articles are: Iman Anabtawi & Lynn Stout (both UCLA); Chris Brummer (Vanderbilt, moving to Georgetown); Stephen Choi & Marcel Kahan (both NYU); Stephen Choi (NYU) & Jill Fisch (Penn); James Cox (Duke), Randall Thomas (Vanderbilt), and Lynn Bai (Cincinnati); Todd Henderson (Chicago); Henry…
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Comesana, Sartorio from Wisconsin to Arizona
Juan Comesana (epistemology) and Carolina Sartorio (metaphysics, ethics) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have accepted offers to be Associate Professors of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. That's a major pick-up for Arizona, especially after the loss of L.A. Paul (metaphysics) to North Carolina last year.
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Budget Woes Affecting Faculty Retention at Nevada?
This article suggests it is a factor.
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Judge Pollak Ranks the Law Schools
It's not every day an eminent federal judge ranks U.S. law schools, but today is that day!
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The Philosophers’ Magazine…
…has a new website.
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Harvard Law School’s Debt to Slaves
A sensible proposal from Eric Johnson (North Dakota).
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US News Rankings Excorciated…
…yet again. Plus US News and BCS rankings usefully compared!
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SSHRC Awards to Canadian Philosophers
Richard Zach (Calgary) has the details.
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Acquiring Substantial Debt While in Grad School: How Much? How Common?
A PhD student at a top program writes: I'm finishing up the 2nd year of a program that I expect to finish in 5 years total. I'm married; we've got a young child; and we'd like to have another in the next couple years. As an undergrad, I took out about $15,000 in student loans…
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Kelsey from UCLA to Notre Dame; ND Also Makes Bid for Chignell at Cornell
Sean Kelsey (ancient philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame has also made a tenured offer to Andrew Chignell (Kant, early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion) at Cornell University.
I’m not sure whether an interactive, online logic textbook counts as an open-access philosophy book, but for those who might…