November 2009
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Bainbridge Meets the “Comments” Section at “Above the Law”…
…and has some fun with it.
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Is Northwestern Dean Van Zandt the First Adult to Refer to “the top 14” in Public?
Quite possibly! Various readers have sent me e-mails marvelling at the fact that a legal educator, a Dean no less, actually used the category "top 14" in public and without irony. (As one colleague quipped: "Didn't Van Zandt notice that according to U.S. News, Northwestern's reputation is no longer "top 14"!") The category, purportedly based…
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“Philosophy Talk” Radio Celebrates Its 200th Show
You can listen to it here. John Perry and Ken Taylor are really good at this–they're radio pros!
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Bristol’s Leitgeb weighing offers from Stanford and Groningen
Hannes Leitgeb, professor of philosophy and mathematics at the University of Bristol, has senior offers from the Departments of Philosophy at Stanford University and the University of Groningen. Students interested in mathematical and philosophical logic considering any of these departments should keep an eye on what happens.
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Philosophy Students from China
An American philosopher writes: Many of us in US colleges and universities have received requests from Chinese MA or PhD students asking for permission for a year of study in our program in the US. The request is often "I have received funding from the government for a year of study in the United States.…
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Rutgers Raids the ANU: Schaffer, Schellenberg to New Brunswick in 2011
Jonathan Schaffer (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language) and Susanna Schellenberg (philosophy of mind, epistemology), both at the Australian National University, have accepted tenured offers as, respectively, professor and associate professor at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, to start in January 2011. (They may also continue some part-time affiliation with the ANU; I will post details…
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APA Adopts New Policy on Religious Institutions that Discriminate Against Gay Men and Women
Alastair Norcross (Colorado) reports that the National Board of the American Philosophical Association has now taken action on an initiative that began with a letter from Charles Hermes (UT Arlington) (posted here last February) and then a petition he crafted (signed by over 1400 philosophers) followed by a motion put before the APA by Professor Norcross and with…
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Speaking of American fascists…
…as we and others have been doing, other worrisome signs continue to appear.
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What the “Super Lawyer” Ranking of Law Schools Would Look Like…
…if the editors had not been drinking theThomas Cooley kool aid that rewards big schools for being, well, big. Amazingly, they produced a list of schools that graduated the most "super lawyers" without making any effort to take account of the fact that, e.g., Harvard has graduated more than twice as many lawyers as Yale…
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What do philosophers believe?
David Chalmers explains the idea behind this fun survey meant to gauge the distribution of philosophical opinions about a range of traditional and au courant philosophical issues. You will, however, need a PhilPapers account or a 'guest' account for survey purposes–the instructions will prompt you for that purpose. Try it out! This is not just for…
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A JD/PhD in Philosophy, Part II
Following up on the earlier item, another question.
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Journals That Want to Know Where an Article Has Been Submitted Before?
A philosopher writes with a pretty startling report of a phenomenon I had not heard of previously: I recently submitted an article to a journal that uses online Editorial Management software. In general, I like this way of handling submissions. But on this recent occasion, there was a step in the process that I'd not seen…
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Google Scholar Now Includes Law Reviews in Its Database
Have fun seeing which articles of yours are being cited and by whom!
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Fitelson from Berkeley to Rutgers
Branden Fitelson (philosophy of science, logic, epistemology, decision theory), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University at New Brunswick. Fitelson is the second of the very strong younger scholars at Berkeley to move East recently. (On the other…
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…