February 2011
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New Philosophers’ Carnival is…
…here. UPDATE: An alert reader points out that this week's Carnival includes an item about why some physicists are so bad at philosophy (it's true, many are), though its author does also invite the question why some philosophers are so bad at philosophy (the explanation in this case is religious dogma). Little ironies…
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Autoadmit Redux
This time it's a cyber-cesspool about college. Its owners might want to chat with Anthony Ciolli about consequences for trafficking in such garbage, even when one tries to whitewash one's involvement. How much longer before Section 230 of the CDA–which makes these cesspools possible–gets repealed?
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Here comes “Unileaks”!
Details here. It's doubtful university secrets are quite as important to human well-being, but I guess we'll see! (Thanks to Jeffrey Roland for the pointer.)
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University Admin, British-Style: “Masterful inactivity”
Jo Wolff (UCL) reveals the secrets.
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Willamette Law Dean Stepping Down
Willamette University College of Law Dean Symeon Symeonides announced he will be stepping down at the end of the academic year. Outgoing university President M. Lee Pelton announced that Associate Dean Peter Letsou will serve as interim dean for the next two years.
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Salaries of Public Law School Deans
Blog Emperor Caron loves compiling this stuff!
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Counterfactual historical scenarios
Ruchira Paul has a few.
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For Chicago Students: Spring seminar on “Nietzsche and Moral Psychology”
The draft syllabus for the seminar Michael Forster and I are doing this Spring is now on-line here. Apologies for the delay. E-mail me (bleiter at uchicago-dot-edu) with any questions. (Note that philosophy PhD students do not need instructor permission to enroll; JD students and PhD students in other fields, as well as MAPH students, do…
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Which schools are cutting class sizes, and making it up with transfers?
Regarding Dan's post, the only real data I've seen on this, which we discussed here in 2008, suggests it is a mix of some elite (but not all) and some non-elite (but not all) law schools who are depending heavily on an influx of transfers.
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The Turkmenistan Dictator Supports Philosophy!
Which may not be so good for philosophy.
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Law Schools Reducing Entering Class Size?
The National Law Journal suggests as much here. But color me skeptical. Elite schools often toy with their entering class size to manipulate the LSAT's and GPA's they report to US News. They make up for this lost revenue by pumping up transfers. But will downsizing become a national trend beyond the elites? I have further thoughts on this issue…
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“Quo vadis”, indeed, America?
V. Alan White, a philosopher at the University of Wisconsin at Manitowoc, writes: Quo vadis? With Wisconsin becoming the Wississippi version of “Walker: Taxes Ranger”, and Texas itself dissolving into the Wild Wild West minus the winning Robert Conrad, where would we turn? Are there short-recoil blow-back semiautomatic mechanisms of rationality available to us? Amusingly,…
Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture (Amherst College Press, 2020) is a finalist for the 2026…