October 2010
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Penn Extends Fitts Deanship
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann announced yesterday that Penn Law Dean Michael Fitts, whose term was set to end in 2012, received a three year term extension. He is now slated to be dean until 2015. This insures that Fitts will get to fully enjoy the fruits of the major building project he spearheaded for…
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“Why conservatives love war”
More from Corey Robin (Brooklyn/CUNY). Not quite as persuasive, I think, as his earlier piece, but worth reading.
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Only One NEH Summer for Seminar College Teachers Related to Philosophy Funded for 2011
It's a seminar by Gilbert Harman (Princeton) and Ernest LePore (Rutgers) on Quine and Davidson. The full list of awards is here. ADDENDUM: I've edited the title, since it turns out (as some readers pointed out) that there are two additional seminars for high school teachers related to philosophy that were funded: Mitch Green (Virginia)…
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Visiting Faculty at Top Six Law Schools, 2010-11, Final
MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 25 As I've done before, I'm posting a list of the visiting professors (who hold university appointments elsewhere) at the top six law schools, the schools that are "top six" by almost all measures of faculty quality–which are also the schools that also typically have the most visiting professors on…
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More Triumphs of the Criminal War of Aggression Against Iraq
A summary of the latest atrocities to come to light. Silence, no doubt, can be expected from the alleged intellectuals who were apologists for this world-historic crime.
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The Texas Plan to Destroy Higher Education
Reader David Frost flags this WSJ article about this manifestly absurd effort to monetize the worth of each professor, about which we have taken note before. (Given the ideological agenda of WSJ, the article doesn't quite cut to the chase about what's going on here, though it does report some striking facts.) Texas A&M, in…
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“Party-Line Continentalists”
Please don't let them confuse you into thinking they represent the interesting and important Continental traditions in philosophy.
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Misrepresenting the National Research Council Results
Here's the complete misinformation Penn State's Philosophy Department has put on its homepage: Penn State’s philosophy department has been highly ranked by the National Research Council (NRC) in its long-awaited national review of PhD granting universities. Out of 90 PhD granting philosophy departments in the United States, Penn State is ranked #11 in terms of…
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Did you know that the Oxford Professor of Jurisprudence can run 10 miles?
That is surely reason enough to support his charitable efforts!
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Most Significant Philosophers of Science of the 20th-Century: the Results
So in the second iteration of our earlier poll, more than 340 votes were cast. Only two of the new inclusions (Duhem and Ramsey) cracked the top ten. The results: 1. Rudolf Carnap (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices) 2. Thomas Kuhn loses to Rudolf Carnap by 186–123 3. Karl Popper loses to Rudolf Carnap by…
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Passings in Legal Academia
The University of Washington School of Law has had some sad news of late. Two of its law faculty - one active and one retired - recently passed away. On Tuesday, Paul Miller, the Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law at the University of Washington, a long time commissioner on the U.S. EEOC, and a noted disability rights advocate, died. …
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“The privatisation of the humanities” in England
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–DO SEE THE INTERESTING COMMENTS (AND ESP. THE MOST RECENT FROM MIKE OTSUKA) A propos our earlier discussion, do read this. Thoughts from readers?
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“So you want to go to law school”
"Cynical" barely does justice to this, but it is funny. (Thanks to Michael Sevel for the pointer.)
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The UK’s First “Official” “Philosophy Town”
Story here. Mark Hopwood, a PhD student here, reports: "having spent some very pleasant evenings in this place, I can report that the pubs are excellent too." Sounds like the perfect choice then!
We haven’t discussed this in our department (lower ranked PGR but tend to get highly competitive/very large applicant pool) but…