For those who took a break from blog-reading during the summer, here are a few items from the summer that might be of interest:

Is "Secular Moral Theory" Really Relatively Young? (June)

The New NRC "Methodology" for Ranking Graduate Programs (July)

The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (July)

In Memoriam:  G.A. Cohen (August)

A proposal on referreeing articles for journals (August)

Plus, scroll through here to see other faculty moves and memorial notices announced over the summer (there were several).