February 2011
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The earthquake in New Zealand
Given the catastrophe in Christchurch, home to several institutions of higher education, including the University of Canterbury, I wonder if any readers in New Zealand or elsewhere have heard from philosophers there and how the universities (their staff and student populations) have fared during this crisis? Feel free to pass on any other information that might be of use…
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Qaddafi Jr’s LSE Doctoral Thesis on Justice and Democracy in the Global System
Who knew? Apparently it's largely plagiarized. (Thanks to Jonathan Kramnick for the pointer.) UPDATE: Good to know that a PhD based on plagiarized work is "for sale" at LSE. What an embarrassment for them. (Thanks to Richard Menary for this link.)
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More on the Criminal Libel Trial of Joseph Weiler in France
From The New York Times.
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The Gun Nuts Make the Texas Taliban Look Sane
This ought to be unbelievable, but it appears to be all too real: Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms. More than half the members of the Texas House have signed on…
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Wash U/St. Louis Makes Bid for Pitt’s Machery (UPDATED: Machery to Remain at Pitt)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 9 MOVING TO FRONT FROM 1/20/11–SEE UPDATE Edouard Machery (philosophy of psychology and cognitive science), Associate Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has been offered a senior position and Directorship of the welll-known Philosophy-Psychology-Neuroscience Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Students interested in…
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Bandes from DePaul to Miami
Susan Bandes, a leading scholar in the areas of criminal law and procedure, as well as emotions and the law, and a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at the University of Miami, where she is presently visiting. A major loss for DePaul (and for…
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“Dungeons and Dragons” for philosophers
Basic and advanced. (Thanks to Drew Van Denover for the pointer.)
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Leunissen from Wash U/St. Louis to North Carolina
Mariska Leunissen (ancient philosophy), currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where she is likely to be put up for tenure before too long).
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States Move to Protect Gun Rights on Campus
According to this recent report in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, nine state legislatures are moving toward adopting laws that protect gun carrying students from university anti-gun rules. From the article: A proposal this year in Kansas, for example, would require campuses to either maintain a certain level of security, with measures such as metal…
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Speaking of Republican liars and conmen…
…this Krugman column is unusually forthright and pleasing.
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From Cairo to Wisconsin
So the popular uprising in Egypt has forced the US ally and dictator Mubarak to resign, replacing him with a dictatorship of the same military establishment that Mubarak represented. As revolutions go, this was an odd one, and the verdict isn't in yet. (Here's a sober assessment [thanks to Chris Morris for this link].) Meanwhile,…
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More Data on Women in Philosophy
Courtesy of Richard Zach (Calgary).
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In Memoriam: Ernan McMullin (1924-2011)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 8: SEE VARIOUS UPDATES Fr. McMullin, a well-known historian and philosopher of science, was emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, where he had taught since 1954 and where he held the O'Hara Chair at the time of his retirement. I will post links to memorial notices as they appear.…
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Two Senior Hires for UC Davis: Bhagwat from Hastings, Harris from Berkeley
UC Davis has recruited two senior scholars, both longtime faculty members at their home institutions: Ashutosh Bhagwat (constitutional law) at the University of Califiornia at Hastings and Angela Harris (critical race theory, law & gender, criminal law) at the University of California at Berkeley have both accepted offers from UC Davis. An interesting sidenote, of…
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…