December 2010
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2010: Philosophers Who Died
Here is a list of philosophers and historians of philosophy whose passing during 2010 was noted on the blog: Kurt Baier, Jacques Brunschwig, Richard Cartwright, Denis Dutton, Antony Flew, Philippa Foot, David Furley, Pierre Hadot, John Haugeland, Paul Hoffman, David Hull, Claude Lefort, Ralph McInerney, Ian Mueller, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Margaret Osler, Nelson Pike, Itamar Pitowsky, Anthony Quinton, James…
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The Best of 2010 Roundup
UPDATE: Eugene Volokh is true to form (discussing the "ethics" of publishing legal correspondence does not require referring by name to a deranged cyber-stalker, but of course Volokh does), but some commenters actually make relevant responses (and here). Tedious, but typical of Professor Volokh. *2010 began with an uproar about the AALS's rip-off registration fees for its annual conference, as well…
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In Memoriam: Eric Schmertz
Eric Schmertz, the former dean of Hofstra Law School, passed away last week. He was 84. Schmertz was one of the five founding members of the Hofstra law faculty, appointed in 1969. In 1982 he was named dean of the law school and served in that capacity for seven years.
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Farewell to the Eastern APA, Hello to Skype!
A young philosopher writes: Given the on-going disaster at the Eastern APA, both in terms of the punishing weather and in terms of the brutal job market, I thought I would share my thoughts about a Skype interview I recently did. As someone who is fortunate enough to have a tenure track job that I…
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New Books in December
Here are the books that publishers and/or authors sent me this month: The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays by Joshua Cohen (Harvard University Press, 2010). Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History by Darian Shanske (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Naturalism and Normativity edited by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur (Columbia University…
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They weren’t good enough for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The AAAS has now put on-line a list of all its members since its founding, searchable by subject. The omissions in the "Law" category are just breathtaking–they include such giants of law and legal scholarship in the 20th-century as Karl Llewellyn, Leon Green, Jerome Frank, Milton Handler, William O. Douglas, W. Page Keeton, John Henry…
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APA Interview Issues: Cancellations, Reschedulings, Contact Info Etc.
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY Post on this subject here.
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APA/Boston Travel Information/Advice/Updates
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY Post on this subject in this thread.
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APA Session Cancellations/Reschedulings
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY Post information on these in this thread. Per reader suggestions, I'm creating separate threads for each kind of information that might be useful. Don't forget to check the original thread which already has some information on cancellations, travel info, and interviews. I will try to make sure that new comments are…
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In Memoriam: Denis Dutton (1944-2010)
A philosopher of art at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Professor Dutton may have been best known to the wider literate public for the creation of the popular Arts & Letters Daily website. An LA Times notice here.
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IHE Story on the Boston APA Disaster
Although IHE is mostly not publishing this week, to their credit they did do a story on the Boston APA disaster, which includes quotes from some APA folks.
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A bit of advice for departments interviewing at the Boston APA
So with the caveat that I am not offering legal advice (since I am officially retired from the practice of law)–but since I am hearing a couple of horror stories about some departments perhaps not making accomodations for stranded job seekers (e.g., rescheduling the interviews, proposing Sykpe interviews, phone interviews, or some alternative way to "meet" with job seekers who simply can…
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Waldron Receives Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence from American Philosophical Society
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at NYU and Chichele Professor of Social & Political Theory at Oxford, is this year's winner of the Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence (broadly construed). A list of past winners is here.
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What’s going on with the APA Meeting in Boston in Light of the Weather Disaster?
The American Philosophical Association website is on its "winter holiday," while the most important meeting of the year is snowed under in Boston, and I am hearing from loads of folks that they don't know when they can get there. The APA site has no information about what's going on. Have departments made contact with interviewees…
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2010: The Year of the Crazies
Here. America went off the rails with the election of Reagan in 1980, but the truth is that that period of time now looks really quite sane by comparison to the past fifteen years. The thing that bodes ill for the future of this country is that there is no sign of a return to normalcy: …
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii