June 2009
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California Budget Crisis: 8% Pay Cut for Faculty in the Offing
Wow. Any private or state school with money for hiring is going to be looking hard at the U of C system for talent next year if this goes through. UPDATE: A more upbeat assessment from Berkeley's Dean Edley, though he does not address the impending salary cut.
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“Nietzsche and Morality” Now Out in Paperback from OUP
I got my actual copies in mid-May, and Amazon reports now having it in stock. The volume contains original essays by Simon Blackburn, Maudemarie Clark & David Dudrick, Thomas Hurka, Nadeem Hussain, Christopher Janaway, Joshua Knobe & Brian Leiter, Peter Poellner, Bernard Reginster, Mathias Risse, Neil Sinhababu, and R. Jay Wallace. From the reviews on the dustjacket: "Nietzsche…
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More on Iran
These two items I found worthwhile: here and here (by an Iranian-American philosopher). May the theocracy fall without anymore bloodshed.
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DePaul Associate Dean Siegel to Resign Upon Appointment of the Interim Dean
Stephen Siegel, a distinguished constitutional historian and longtime member of the DePaul faculty who is currently Associate Dean, announced this morning that he will resign "effective when the expected announcement is made that an interim dean has been appointed from outside the law school community without any faculty input or consultation." To his colleagues he…
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California Budget Crisis Update: 8% Pay Cut for University of California Faculty in the Offing
Wow. Any private or state school with money for hiring is going to be looking hard at the U of C system for talent next year if this goes through. UPDATE: A philosopher in the UC system writes: The UC pay cut is actually more like 10%. That is because a separate decision earlier this year…
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The Geography of Vice and Sin
Here. (Thanks to Andy Cling for the pointer to this amusing site.)
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Iran Election Results, Again
Due to other pressing obligations, I haven't been following this matter carefully, but Peter Momtchiloff calls my attention to an interesting chart from The Guardian; here are the four provinces with the most, shall we say, "suspect" results: East Azerbaijan: Ahmadinejad received 10% in 2005, ‘57%’ in 2009. Ardabil: Ahmadinejad received 7% in 2005, ‘51%’…
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DePaul Provost Ousts Law Dean Without Consulting Faculty, Plans to Appoint an Outsider as Interim Dean
DePaul University Provost Helmut Epp yesterday sent the following e-mail to the faculty: I write today to inform you that there will be a change in leadership at the College of Law effective immediately. At my recommendation, the president and I have removed Glen Weissenberger as dean and hired a new interim dean who will…
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More on Political Muscle Used to “Fix” Admissions to U of Illinois
A series of revealing articles here. If these investigations catch on elsewhere, this could be quite an eye-opener for the public.
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Budget Crisis at Florida State University: Layoffs of Tenured Faculty in the Works?
There are a variety of documents collected here, though it's unclear how far-reaching the layoffs will be and whether Philosophy will be among the affected departments. (My read of the materials suggests that tenured faculty at risk are in units that may be eliminated, and I see no indication that includes Philosophy.) Any insight from…
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More Thoughts on Philosophers Influential in Legal Scholarship
Responding toour earlier survey, David Luban (Georgetown) writes with some interesting observations: Your poll of the most influential philosophers on law faculties was interesting, in part because it raises questions about what kind of influence we are thinking of and which faculties. As for the former question: given the extraordinary number of law professors who…
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Illinois State Senator Chris Lauzen, Brazen Hypocrite of the Day (NOW UPDATED with Senator Lauzen’s Reply to the Tribune Article)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM JUNE 5: Senator Lauzen replies, below. ====original JUNE 5 item======== This story airs the dirty little secret of the pressures under which state law schools operate all the time: state legislators, who of course vote on university budgets, make special pleas to admit friends, relatives, and constituents. Mostly they weigh in…
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On-Line Reading Group on Lee Braver’s Recent Book on “Continental Anti-Realism”
Here. And the book is here. Professor Braver kindly sent me the book some time back, but I regret I've not had a chance to read it. But since the book aims to investigate thematic affinities between "Continental" and Anglophone traditions in philosophy, it might be of particular interest to some readers.
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Petition Regarding the Crisis in Iran
Dr. Masrour asked me to post a link to this petition, which follows upon the statement he and his wife wrote. UPDATE: Petition link has been changed.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii