April 2010
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Arizona’s Craziness Moves from Immigration into the Universities and Public Schools
Astonishing story here. (Thanks to Bennett Gilbert for the pointer.)
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Gordon-Reed from New York Law School to Harvard
Annette Gordon-Reed, the legal historian at New York Law School and the History Department at Rutgers University-Newark, whose work has won a Pulitzer Prize, among other honors, has accepted a senior offer from Harvard Law School. I will guess, though I may be wrong, that this is the first time Harvard Law School has ever hired…
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Owens from Sheffield to Reading
David Owens (epistemology, metaphysics, ethics), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading, to start this fall. That's a major pick-up for Reading, which already has one of the top U.K. departments.
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In Memoriam: David J. Furley (1922-2010)
UPDATE: Moving to front from February 18: see Update. Obituary here. Professor Furley was a distinguished scholar of classical philosophy, emeritus profesor of classics at Princeton, and former director of the Program in Classical Philosophy there. (Thanks to Sean Kelsey for the pointer.) UPDATE: A very informative obituary by David Sedley has appeared. (Thanks to Stephen Menn for the…
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John Searle (Berkeley) Elected to American Philosophical Society
A full list of new members is here; Searle was the only philosopher elected this year.
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Four Law Professors Elected to American Philosophical Society
They are: Martha Minow (Dean of Harvard Law School); Geoffrey Stone (University of Chicago Law School); Cass Sunstein (serving in the Obama Administration, on leave from Harvard Law School); and Laurence Tribe (Harvard Law School). Judge Boudin of the 1st Circuit was also elected. The full list of new members is here.
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Middlesex University in the U.K. Cuts Its Highest RAE-Rated Program in Its Entirety!
And it's the Philosophy Department. What could be the explanation for this bizarre decision? Thoughts from readers. Signed comments strongly preferred. UPDATE: This blog has a series of posts with information about protests, administrators involved in this fiasco, and other pertinent links. The pseudo-business blather from the Dean noted here might suggest why he would…
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Unionizing Grad Students…
…at NYU again. Earlier discussions here and here.
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“On the Human,” Again
So my 2,500 words on "Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement: Developing an Argument from Nietzsche" generated some 25,000 words of generally quite interesting and illuminating commentary (moral realists came out in force, as I had hoped!), to which I am, indeed, working on a response–apologies for the delay. But in the interim, readers might enjoy…
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What do people in the audience think about during a philosophy talk?
This is funny, but do not read it if you're about to give a talk! (Thanks to Adam Kolber for the pointer.)
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Adam Kolber from San Diego to Brooklyn
Professor Adam Kolber, a criminal law, neurolaw and bioethics scholar, will be moving to a tenured position at Brooklyn Law School beginning next fall. He leaves the University of San Diego after six years on their faculty.
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Leitgeb from Bristol to Ludwig Maximilians U (Munich)
Hannes Leitgeb, professor of philosophy and mathematics at the University of Bristol, has turned down the other senior offers reported last fall and accepted a Chair and an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University at Munich, where he will also direct a new Center for Mathematical Philosophy.
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Score One for Legal Positivism
From The New York Times: "Whether the transaction was legal or not, there’s a difference between what’s legal and what’s right." (Take that Lon Fuller!)
I don’t disagree with David Wallace, the things he says are to my mind obviously true. But I have a…