December 2010
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Weather Alert for Those Heading to Boston for the APA
Better keep an eye on this. Delta has already cancelled 500 flights. Good luck to all!
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XPhil in The Philosopher’s Magazine
Here. (Thanks to Wesley Buckwalter for the pointer.)
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Postmodern Xmas
Here. (Thanks to Johnston Hill for the pointer.)
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Burge on Neurobabble and “jj” on Burgebabble
Here and here. ("jj" is the pseudonym of a philosopher of mind and cognitive science.)
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Cambridge Offers Professorship to Sydney’s Price
Huw Price, Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a two-time winner of the lucrative Australian Federation Fellowships, has been offered the Bertrand Russell Professorship in Philosophy at Cambridge University (presently held by Simon Blackburn, who will be retiring this year). Price has written widely in philosophy of science and physics, metaphysics,…
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Announcing the New Dean Three Days Before Xmas When No One Is Around Actually Is *Not* Normal…
…but that's what DePaul University has done. The new Dean is Gregory Mark, from Rutgers University at Newark. Now why the odd timing? Blog Emperor Caron suggests it is because most of the faculty preferred an inside candidate, not Professor Mark. That's a pretty plausible hypothesis under the circumstances, and given the generally high-handed misconduct…
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San Diego Dean Finalists
Thanks to Paul Caron, we learn that the three law school dean finalists at the University of San Diego are Emory's Robert Ahdieh, Patton Boggs' Nicholas Allard, and GW's Lawrence Mitchell.
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Some Good News for the Humanities: $20 Million to Support Humanities at the University of Wisconsin…
…including $2.5 million specifically for a Chair in ancient Greek philosophy! (Thanks to Samuel Howard for the pointer.) ADDENDUM: Wisconsin's press release is here. They are hoping to fill the ancient Greek philosophy Chair, it indicates, by fall 2011. CORRECTION: Folks at Wisconsin tell me the press release is in error: the Chair will be advertised…
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A comment on this year’s job market
Many years ago (1992 to be precise), I can recall, with pleasant surprise, getting a convention interview with UCLA just 3 days before Xmas. (Didn't get that job, but it was still good for morale! And I'll never forget Robert Adams's poker face when asking me about Nietzsche!) If that's indicative of how late in…
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Former Maryland Law Dean Returns $300K Bonus
Former Maryland law dean Karen Rothenberg agreed, today, to return $300,000 in bonus money to the State of Maryland. The Attorney General concluded that she had received the money improperly – although for no fault of her own. I discuss this matter in more detail over at the Faculty Lounge.
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“The Simpsons” Make Fun of Grad Students
Thanks to Jonathan Trerise for the pointer.
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A Petition in Support of the Faculty and Students at the University of Puetro Rico
Here. Professor Rosado Haddock explains: [The] petition [is addressed) to a member of parliament in charge of educational affairs. [I]t essentially states the following: 1. that the government should look for funds for the university elsewhere and not in the pockets of the students; 2. that the president, the chancellor and the president of the Board of…
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In Memoriam: Richard L. Cartwright (1925-2010)
Professor Cartwright, longtime member of the philosophy faculty at MIT (where he was professor emeritus), passed away on December 19. I will link to memorial notices as they appear. UPDATE: MIT has posted Judith Jarvis Thomson's admiring remarks on Cartwright for a festschrift published for him a number of years ago. They are both evocative…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii