April 2011
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Synthese Petition Update
If you have not yet signed the petition, please consider doing so. If you have already signed, please make sure colleagues interested in this issue know about it. The petition will remain open through the weekend. For the benefit of journalists covering or watching this issue: the roughly 230 signatories (as of this morning, about 48 hours…
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How much teaching experience should a job seeker have?
A reader writes: I'm a graduate student who has received conflicting advice about the importance of teaching experience on the academic job market. From some folks I have heard that having plenty of experience teaching one's own courses (while in graduate school) is a plus on the job market. From others I've heard that one can have…
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Jo Wolff on the AHRC Nonsense and “Justifying” the Humanities
Here: Suppose we have to choose between two worlds. In one of them, universities have flourishing departments of arts and humanities. You, your children, your grandchildren, can study literature, language, fine art or ancient history, and, talent permitting, can contribute to scholarly debates. In the other, only the rich can do this, but technical progress…
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In Memoriam: Craig Callen
Professor Craig Callen, the Judge John D. O’Hair Professor of Evidence and Procedure at Michigan State University College of Law, passed away this past weekend. He was 60. Callen had been a member of the MSU Law faculty since 2002. He previously taught at Mississippi College of Law and Oklahoma City University School of Law.
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In Memoriam: Keith Aoki
The very sad news has just come in that Keith Aoki, Professor of Law at U.C. Davis School of Law, passed away this morning. Professor Aoki previously taught at the University of Oregon School of Law and was a prolific scholar in areas relating to critical theory. He was also an avid cartoonist. He was 55. Update: Jamie Boyle at…
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The Sociology of “Analytic” Philosophy in Europe…
…and its possible connection to the response to the Synthese scandal. Interesting in its own right, quite apart from whether it explains the response to what's been going on with Synthese.
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A refutation of atheism, physicalism, and empiricism…
…all in the pages of USA Today, and precisely at the level of total argumentative and conceptual confusion one would expect. And it was published in honor of Easter Sunday not April Fool's Day. (Thanks to Jorgen Hansen for the pointer.)
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A Petition to the Editors-in-Chief of Synthese
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY This petition is an opportunity for members of the philosophical community to register their concern and unhappiness with the way the Editors-in-Chief have handled the special issue on "Evolution and Its Rivals" (for pertinent background, see especially here and here). It also calls for the disclosure of more information pertaining to…
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What a serious budget proposal would look like…
…when not designed by the henchmen of the ruling class.
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A curious fact about the debate concerning the Synthese scandal
John Wilkins has collected lots of links to discussions of the Synthese scandal, and one thing that has struck me, as I have read through many (not all) of them is that all those trying to defend or at least excuse what the Synthese editors did are all philosophers who have recently published in Synthese or…
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Michael Young, Former GW Law Dean, Named President of University of Washington
Michael Young, a former member of the Columbia Law faculty and dean of the George Washington Law School, has been named the new president of the University of Washington. Young currently serves as president of the University of Utah. He is a graduate of Harvard and clerked for Justice Rehnquist. He also served briefly in…
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Four Law Professors Named Guggenheim Fellows
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2011 Fellows. Four law professors are among this year's Guggenheim Fellows, including Katherine Franke (Columbia), Catherine Sharkey (NYU), Stephen Gardbaum (UCLA), and Richard Leo (USF). Karen Alter (Northwestern Political Science) and Seyla Benhabib (Yale Political Science & Philosophy) – both working in the area of international…
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Classics or Philosophy for a Student Interested in Ancient Philosophy?
A prospective PhD student writes: It is probably no surprise that the programs which are ranked most highly in the Leiter Report Ancient Philosophy sub-specialty are usually found at Universities with the most highly reputed Classics Departments as well. These Universities have often harnessed the synergy latent in this situation by creating Shared or Joint…
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In Praise of Philosopher Barbara Forrest
Here, and rightly so.
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Lazarus from Georgetown to Harvard
Richard Lazarus (environmental law) at Georgetown University has accepted a senior offer from Harvard Law School.
Do you know of anyone who’s taken the approach you describe, in philosophy or the sciences? It seems interesting.