February 2011
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New Books Sent to me in February
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these books this month: Philosophy of Law by Andrei Marmor (Princeton University Press, 2011) Promises and Agreements: Philosophical Essays edited by Hanoch Sheinman (Oxford University Press, 2011) Licensing Parents: Family, State, and Child Maltreatment by Michael T. McFall (Lexington Books, 2009) Machiavellian Democracy by John P. McCormick (Cambridge University…
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Maudlin from Rutgers to NYU
Tim Maudlin (philosophy of physics and science, metaphysics), Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at New York University. This will likely drop Rutgers at least one grouping in philosophy of physics (Barry Loewer at Rutgers also works in philosophy of physics, among other areas), and now…
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Glanzberg from UC Davis to Northwestern
Michael Glanzberg (philosophy of language, mathematical logic, metaphysics), currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Davis, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University, to start this fall. Glanzberg has had a number of offers, including from top twenty departments, so this is a significant pick-up for…
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Ludlow on Assange on the Radio…
…from Australia.
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Indiana Tech Weighs New Law School
Last week, the Indiana Tech board of trustees established a committee to consider the feasibility of opening a new law school in Fort Wayne. Given the challenges faced by existing law graduates, I'm a bit surprised that Indiana Tech is considering this move now. Still, law school success is determined by the local market in many…
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One Way to Support the Wisconsin Protesters
Anita Bernstein, a legal scholar at Brooklyn Law School (and regular reader of this blog), writes: As you know, there’s tons of info online about how to donate food and other supplies to support the protest. I e-mailed a WI colleague to ask what he’d recommend. He said he could personally vouch for Ian’s Pizza,…
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The Invisible Role of Ideology
Here is liberal economist Krugman debunking, yet again, the myth that public sector workers are paid more than private sector workers. But what is really revealing about this way of framing the debate is the assumption–not challenged by Krugman (he is an economist, after all) or anyone else in the 'mainstream'–that the private sector market…
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Steven Nadler: “Scenes from an Insurrection”
Philosopher Steven Nadler (Wisconsin-Madison) invited me to share his observations on recent events in Madison: Among the more remarkable aspects of the demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin this past week and a half is the fact that the participants are so hard to pigeon-hole. It is a wildly diverse crowd: teachers and students (from the state’s universities, high schools,…
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Rallies Nationwide, Tomorrow, to Protest the Latest Craven Power & Money Grab of the Plutocracy
Details about rallies in your area here. (Thanks to Brendan Ritchie for the pointer.) UPDATE: It's a good sign when wicked politicians lose the support of the police. (Thanks to Steven Nadler for alerting me to this development.)
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Chapman Names Tom Campbell Dean
Chapman University School of Law announced, today, that former U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell will be its new dean. Campbell has a strong academic background with a JD from Harvard and a Ph.D in economics from the University of Chicago. He formerly held a faculty position at Stanford Law and is currently on leave from his faculty position at the…
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Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator
Just what the world needs.
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Update on British Higher Education “Reform”
Thom Brooks (Newcastle) comments on the latest developments.
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A new blog about philosophy of logic and language…
…which invites contributions.
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Co-Authoring Published Papers as a Graduate Student?
A graduate student writes: For a philosophy graduate student, what proportion (e.g. n%), of the credit for having a published paper does one receive if that paper is co-authored? I presume this will vary depending on circumstances, so answers for each of these four possibilities would be very useful: 1. Student is first author, co-authored…
Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture (Amherst College Press, 2020) is a finalist for the 2026…