June 2010
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The Ultimate “Esoteric” Reading of Plato
I imagine even the Straussians will be astonished by this: In an extraordinary discovery, a British academic claims to have uncovered a series of secret messages hidden in some of the most influential and celebrating writings of the Ancient World. The codes suggest that Plato was a secret follower of the philosopher Pythagoras and shared…
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Shameless, Self-Serving Faker of the Month: Matt Ridley
Remarkable. (Thanks to Daniel Star for the pointer.)
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From Judgeship to Deanship
Dean Levi (Duke) reflects on the transition, one he has made, by all the evidence I have, quite successfully.
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Bill Treanor Named New Georgetown Dean
Georgetown Law Center has announced the appointment of William Treanor as its new dean. Treanor joined the Fordham faculty in 1991 and became dean in 2002. In addition to being a highly successful academic administrator, he is a notable legal historian. Interestingly, this move adds value to Fordham as well because it suggests that those in the…
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Tasioulas from Oxford to UCL
John Tasioulas, Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy and CUF Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University, has accepted appointment as the Quain Chair in Jurisprudence on the law faculty at University College London, beginning January 2011. That's a very good appointment for UCL, which had some difficulty filling the Quain Chair after the retirement of…
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What do the ‘folk’ think about personal identity?
Some philosophy students at Carleton College want to find out–help them!
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Koehler from Arizona State to Northwestern
J.J. Koehler, a leading writer on issues at the intersection of empirical psychology and the law of evidence, who is Professor of Law and Business at Arizona State University has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Northwestern University, where he was a Visiting Professor during 2009-10.
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Another Horrendously Pernicious Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court
Here (and the full opinion here). And do see the comments by Judge Posner on the original decision and Judge Easterbrook's decision in the 7th Circuit, which the Supreme Court has now reversed. The only good news is that the case has now been remanded back to the 7th Circuit, which may yet find a way to sustain some,…
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“Heidegger has a fine sense of aesthetics…
…(see "Wozu Dichter?"- What are poets for?), but his politics were overtly, crushingly, genocidally fascist."
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Nanay from Syracuse to Antwerp
Bence Nanay (philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, aesthetics), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, has accepted a BOF Research Professorship at the University of Antwerp, starting this September. He will also be a Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University.
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Mike Huckabee (Mis)Cites Martha Nussbaum…
…and is taken to the woodshed, rightly so.
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Another Contemporary Philosopher Catches Up with Nietzsche
This time, Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside). Bravo!
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Top 40 Law Schools by Numerical Quality of the Student Body 2009-10
MOVING TO FRONT: Note we used the data for all students; next year, we'll use the data only for full-time students. Apologies for this confusion. Here. Be sure to read the introductory caveats. Numbers are a crude, bot not useless, measure. But other metrics–like clerkships and alumni in law teaching–make fairly clear that the ordinal…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…