March 2010
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David Meyer Named Dean At Tulane Law
David Meyer, who is currently serving as associate dean of academic affairs at the University of Illinois, will be taking over as dean at Tulane Law School this July. Meyer, a family law scholar, joined the Illinois faculty in 1996. He was previously the EIC of the Michigan Law Review and clerked for Byron White. His wife, Amy…
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Bill Bratton from Georgetown to Penn
William Bratton, the Peter P. Weidenbruch, Jr. Professor of Business Law at Georgetown Law Center, will be moving to the University of Pennsylvania next fall. Professor Bratton began his teaching career at Cardozo, moving to Rutgers-Newark and George Washington, before landing at Georgetown. He works in the areas of corporate law and corporate finance. —…
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Ed Lee from Ohio State to Chicago-Kent
Edward Lee (copyright, trademark, international intellectual property), Professor of Law at Ohio State, will be joining the faculty of Chicago-Kent College of Law and will serve as the new director of its Program in Intellectual Property Law. — Dan Filler
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Wash U Makes Senior Offer to UCSD’s Cohen (UPDATED)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM MARCH 5, SEE UPDATE Jonathan Cohen (philosophy of mind and psychology, metaphysics, cognitive science), Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego, has a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy and Program in Philosophy-Psychology-Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis. Students considering either program with a strong…
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Lying about the Academic Job Market: The Case of William Pannapacker
The disastrously bad academic job market this year and last has English professor William Pannabacker (who uses the pen name "Thomas Benton") giddy with excitement, and has brought back to the attention of many readers his utterly reckless scare piece from several years ago. Pannabacker, an Associate Professor of English at Hope College, tells students thinking about grad school in…
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Rachel Moran Returns to Berkeley from UC Irvine
Rachel Moran, who joined the UC Irvine faculty from UC Berkeley in 2008 is returning to Northern California. At the time of her move, Brian reported that from Berkeley's point of view, she was taking a leave. She will have had a two year stay at Irvine. Although she is departing, UC Irvine is holding an offer…
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Why so few women in science, engineering and mathematics?
This interesting study sheds some light, I suspect, on why there are not more women in academic philosophy as well. (Thanks to Simine Vazire for the pointer.)
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So You Want A Law School: Merger vs. Startup
If there's one thing that's clear, it's that lots of colleges and universities covet a law school. The reasons vary. For research universities, a law school serves to complete a portfolio. For smaller schools, it can place them on the map. And finally, there are a few schools that are simply built to make money. At the…
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Since ignorance of so-called “analytic” philosophy is widespread…
…this recent book by Gary Gutting (Notre Dame) is a helpful antidote that you should give to your colleagues in other fields. I'm more of a skeptic than Gutting about some of the claimed "progress" and "knowledge," but before one gets to skepticism one has to actually understand the target views, and Gutting helps readers,…
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Fred Tung from Emory to Boston University
Frederick Tung (corporate and securities, bankruptcy), the Robert T. Thompson Professor of Law and Business at Emory Law School, will be joining the faculty of Boston University next fall. Fred got his start in teaching at the University of the Pacific (McGeorge), moving to the University of San Francisco and later Loyola – LA. —…
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Rewriting History, Texas Taliban Style
I often miss Austin and I certainly miss many wonderful colleagues, but I do not miss the ignorant and often venal neanderthals who still run the state. Anywhere out of this world.
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Some Items on the Healthcare Reform in the United States
Details on the new law. Ten immediate benefits of the healthcare legislation. A critique of the new legislation from Physicians for a National Heathcare Program. And finally, since this is America after all, the predictable reaction of the morally depraved, terminally stupid, and pathologically deranged. (Or consider this–these are truly people that the entire post-Enlightenment world has passed by.) It…
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Jason Johnston from Penn to Virginia
Jason Johnston, the Robert G. Fuller Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, has accepted a position on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law. Johnston, who holds a J.D. and a Ph.D (economics) from the University of Michigan, previously taught at Vanderbilt and Vermont. He focuses on environmental law and…
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Fabre from Edinburgh to Oxford
Cécile Fabre (moral and political philosophy), who currently holds a Chair in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh, will take up a permament CUF Lecturership and Tutorial Fellowship in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford University, starting this fall.
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Sober on Fodor, Part II and in Writing
Elliott Sober has now posted a written critique of Fodor & P-P's critique of natural selection. Read in conjunction with Block & Kitcher's piece, this seems pretty decisive. Will FPP concede? Sometimes it is nice when philosophers admit they're wrong.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii