September 2010
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Uffink from Utrecht to Minnesota
Jos Uffink, a philosopher of physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, where he will start in fall 2011. Minnesota plans to search for another philosopher of science to complement Uffink's expertise.
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Another Good Sources of News about Philosophy Conferences, Jobs Etc.
The Google Group on "Philosophy Updates" administered by Fritz Allhoff and grad students at Western Michigan. You can also subscribe by e-mailing them.
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Save the Warburg Library!
Several readers have called this travesty-in-the-making to my attention. The collection survived the Nazis, but may not survive the new "corporate" model of higher education in Britain. A great opportunity for an entrepenurial university in North America or elsewhere!
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Christian Hatred Watch
MOVING TO FRONT–SEE THE UPDATE From an unsurprising source, though it gets even better in the comments. Jeff Culbreath, responding to the suggestion that his original posting amounted to calling for "a new Crusade": I don't know about that. We just need our country to be an Islam-free zone. The presence of Mohammedans and the threat…
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A Thicker Account of the Windsor Kerfuffle
On Friday I reported the news that a failed finalist for the University of Windsor law deanship is now claiming discrimination. I'm sure we'll never get to the bottom of things, but there is a bit more to report. First, Emily Carasco's formal complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario is here. Second, it turns…
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Is the Pacific APA Meeting Scheduled to Meet on Easter Intentionally? And Should It Be?
Philosopher Justin McBrayer calls my attention to the fact that it looks like the annual meeting for the Pacific APA is regularly scheduled to fall on Easter weekend. Here is the information Professor McBrayer forwarded: 85th Annual MeetingApril 20 – 23, 2011, Hilton Bayfront, San Diego (Easter is April 24) 84th Annual MeetingMarch 31 –…
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Yolanda Travis, McDonald’s Franchisor of the Year
Business sense like this is probably hard to teach: Ms. Travis owns the McDonald's here in Hyde Park/Kenwood (52nd and Lake Park, for locals), where last week a member of my family purchased a Big Mac, consumed it, and then became violently ill for hours afterwards (obviously food poisoning). We complained to McDonald's. Ms. Travis, in response,…
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Top 70 Law Faculties in Scholarly Impact–a New Study
Greg Sisk and colleagues at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis) have produced an expanded scholarly impact study, using the methodology of the study I released earlier this year, which ranked only the top 25. I have not reviewed the underlying data, but I have consulted with them at various intervals, and my impression is…
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Are you at a school doing rookie hiring this year?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 31, 2010 (with new update) The Placement Committee at the University of Chicago Law School–myself, Douglas Baird, and Lisa Bernstein–is ready to provide you with information about our dozen-or-so alumni candidates (both JD and SJD alums), as well as our two excellent Bigelows on the market (Anthony Casey, who is also a Chicago grad, and Anthony Niblett). …
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Talking about “The Profession of Philosophy” on the Radio…
…with philosopher Jack Russell Weinstein from the University of North Dakota, tomorrow (Sunday) at 5 pm Central time, for those who might want to tune in (and hopefully this time, we won't have technical difficulties!). UPDATE: The full show is now on-line here.
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More Details on the “Butchering” of the Philosophy Program at the University of Southern Mississippi
"Butchering" was the apt term used by a faculty member who sent me the following details: The on-going budget crisis at USM required a $15 million reduction in spending for the academic year 2011-12. This is on top of a $12 million cut made last year for the 2010-11 academic year. Last year’s cuts on…
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Rutgers’s Sosa Wins Inaugural “Rescher Prize” from University of Pittsburgh
Professor Rescher has kindly forwarded to me the announcement, which does not yet appear to be on-line: The University of Pittsburgh has named Ernest Sosa as the inaugural awardee of the recently established Nicholas Rescher Prize for contributions to systematic philosophy. Named in honor of a distinguished philosopher who has been on Pitt’s faculty…
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More Podcast Interviews with Philosophers
"Elucidations" is the work of two PhD students here, Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood, who manage to cover a remarkably diverse array of topics with skill and insight. Since I last posted a link to this site, there are lots of new interviews, including with Richard Kraut (Northwestern), Ted Cohen (Chicago), Jesse Prinz (Chicago PhD, now…
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More Photos of Philosophers by Steve Pyke
I see he has now many of the new ones on-line. They'll be out in book form from OUP in a few months.
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that