November 2010
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Onora O’Neill on C.P. Snow’s “The Two Cultures”
An audio of her lecture at Birkbeck here. (Thanks to Jeffrey Roland for the pointer.)
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Maggs Named Interim Dean at GW
Gregory Maggs, senior associate dean of academic affairs at George Washington Law School, has been named that school's interim dean. He succeeds Frederick Lawrence who will be heading Brandeis University.
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This is the most damning critique of Obama…
…I've ever read. I'm not sure it's wholly convincing, but Bromwich is on to something.
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On “Pluralism” in Philosophy
Given recent discussions here, this old post might be worth reading for those interested in the issue.
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The NY Times Philosophy Blog, “The Stone”: Taking Stock After Six Months (with special attention to this week’s travesty)
We've come along way since the comical debut (and the backlash it generated) and "the armchair bullshit masquerading as philosophy" that followed. The NY Times editors did realize they had a quality problem, and began soliciting contributions independently of their benighted series moderator. In the intervening months, we had a number of reasonable contributions by competent philosophers, ranging…
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Another Law Dean Becomes Prez
Texas Wesleyan University announced the appointment of Frederick G. Slabach as its new President, effective in January. Slabach is the former dean of Texas Wesleyan and former interim dean at Whittier. People often remark that decanal experience in a law school is good training for a university president. Certainly the fundraising expectations are similar. But I'd guess…
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What counts as ‘service to the profession’ at your university?
The standard requirements for tenure at most schools are scholarship, teaching, and "service," both to the institution but also the profession–but what exactly constitutes service to the profession? Philosopher Becko Copenhaver (Lewis & Clark) writes: What do philosophers and their departments and institutions count as service to the profession? Here is what we might count:…
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Solove on New TSA Airport Screening Procedures
This is easily the funniest thing I've seen on a law blog in years!
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A Petition in Support of Teaching Philosophy in the Pre-University School Curriculum in Britain
The folks at The Philosophy Shop in the U.K. have organized a petition to the British Government to commit a formal place for philosophy at all levels of education. Concerned citizens from countries outside Britain may also sign. I hope readers will take a moment to support this initiative, which would, among many other things,…
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U of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics Saved!
A propos an earlier item from the summer, Donald Ainslie (Toronto) forwards this welcome e-mail from the Centre's Interim Director, Tom Hurka, sent to colleagues at Toronto: As many of you will know, the recommendation of an Arts and Science Planning Committee that the Centre for Ethics be disestablished was followed by a process of consultation…
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Gendler & Stich Discuss Gender and Philosophical Intuitions…
…on Philosophy TV.
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Law Prof Predicts His New Consulting Firm Will Bring About a New Hierarchy of Law Schools
That wasn't quite the title of this article, but it should have been. Professor Henderson's research about the legal profession is always instructive, to be sure, but this article is a bit silly.
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My legal philosophy blog…
…will come back to life, since I've found that some of the substantive discussions on the old one raised issues that continue to come up in my writing and teaching. Those who were kind enough to link to the old legal phil blog might consider linking to the new location. Thanks.
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…