April 2011
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In Memoriam: Gareth Matthews (1929-2011)
A specialist in the history of philosophy (especially ancient, medieval, and early modern), Professor Matthews, a longtime faculty member at the University of Massachussetts at Amherst, was also a major innovator in introducing philosophy to children. There is more information about his work here. I will link to memorial notices as they appear. UPDATE: A remembrance from…
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New Philosophy Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced
Here. Elected in the philosophy section: Daniel Garber (Princeton), James Higginbotham (Southern California), Frances Myrna Kamm (Harvard), and Beatrice Longuenesse (NYU). I'm pleased to see that someone at the AAAS is paying attention! Congratulations to all! ADDENDUM: Confirming once again that with the AAAS, the 'rich get richer,' here's the breakdown of institutional affiliation of…
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New Law Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced
Here. The academics elected are: Marcel Kahan (NYU), Geoffrey Miller (NYU), Michael Schill (Chicago), Louis Michael Seidman (Georgetown), and Stephen Yeazell (UCLA). In addition, Annette Gordon Reed (Harvard) was elected in the History Section. (An overview of the distribution of current members, as of last year, here.)
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Synthese Boycott Update
Many readers have expressed concern about the events described in Monday's post, but are withholding final judgment until the editors respond to the allegations. I have invited them to do so–indeed, invited them to do so last week, before my post, when I sent them the Branch/Fetzer letter, and several months ago, when I first learned of…
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Severa Major Law Reviews (including Yale, Stanford, Chicago, and Harvard) Commit to Give Authors at Least 7 Days to Decide on Publication Offers
Details here. I submitted to law reviews for the first time in awhile this past cycle, and some other law reviews (such as Illinois) already make this their practice.
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Dartmouth’s Roskies wins 2011 Stanton Prize from Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Adina Roskies, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College (who holds PhDs in both Philosophy and in Neurosciences & Cognitive Sciences), is this year's winner of the Stanton Prize from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. The prize "was established to honor a young scholar in philosophy or psychology who has begun making significant contributions…
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Facebook for Scientists
Maybe philosophers need one too? Of course, there are already on-line resources for philosophers, like PhilPapers, that perform some of these functions. (Thanks to Christopher Paone for the pointer.)
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Humanities (including Philosophy) Under Threat at London Metropolitan University
More information here. (Thanks to George Allen for the pointer.)
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Would you trust an anonymous lawprof called “shortporch”?
A student forwarded me this amazing item from a pre-law discussioon board posted last week by someone claiming to be a young law professor, using the moniker "shortporch," purporting to give advice about careers in law teaching: Chicago places around 6 people in the academy each year. Yale places around 30. That's fact. Now, Chicago is very…
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Lopez Named Dean of Loyola New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law has announced the appointment of its new dean, María Pabón López. López is currently a professor at Indiana University – Indianapolis School of Law. López, a native of Puerto Rico, is a graduate of Penn Law.
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PGR Faculty Lists: “Cognate Faculty and Philosophers in Other Units”
Many thanks for all the excellent feedback so far on the first iteration of the draft faculty lists for the next PGR survey–I should have a second draft by Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. I want to address a question that has come up from a number of philosophers: namely, who belongs on the list…
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Lawyers behaving badly…
…and a federal judge has some fun with them.
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Synthese Editors Cave in to Pressure from the Intelligent Design Lobby: Philosophers Should Boycott Synthese
It's more than a bit depressing to report that Synthese, a journal that has published classic papers by Carnap and Quine, among many others, and has been a major scholarly forum for philosophy informed by the sciences, should now have caved in to the major enemies of science education in the United States, the Creationist/Intelligent Design…
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Tor from Haifa to Notre Dame
Avishalom Tor, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa, is moving to a tenured position Notre Dame Law School. He comes with tenure. Tor is an expert in antitrust law and and behavioral analysis of law.
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How to live with a philosopher
Everything you need to know. (Thanks to Michael Deem for the pointer.)
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…