May 2011
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Louisiana Taliban Harass Atheist High School Student
Another triumph for toleration. (Thanks to Jim Nichols for the pointer.) ADDENDUM: Steve Hales send an apt cartoon:
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More Philosophical Incompetence Courtesy of Critchley’s “The Stone” Blog
Cosim Sayid, a PhD student at the CUNY Grad Center, comments on the latest.
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Corcilius from Hamburg to Berkeley
Klaus Corcilius, a specialist in ancient philosophy at the University of Hamburg, has accepted appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy (with tenure) at the University of California at Berkeley, effective July 1.
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New Books in May
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me the following books in May: Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960 by Gary Gutting (Oxford University Press, 2011). Legal Interpretation: Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts by Kent Greenawalt (Oxford University Press, 2011). Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts by Isabelle Stengers (Harvard…
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In Memoriam: Angus McSwain
Baylor University School of Law reports that Angus McSwain, an emeritus faculty member who served as law school dean for 19 years (from 1965-84) passed away this weekend. He was 87. McSwain was surely one of the longest-serving law faculty members in America. He was a full-time member of the faculty from 1949 until his formal…
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The Eclipse of Pragmatism?
Perhaps not.
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Bryan Magee’s Old TV Interviews with Philosophers
All collected in one place! It includes conversations (all from 20-30 years ago) with Bernard Williams, Herbert Marcuse, W.V.O. Quine, John Searle, Martha Nussbaum, and others. (Thanks to Robert Stevens for the pointer.)
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Previously Unknown Copy of Spinoza’s ETHICS found
Steven Nadler (Wisconsin) writes: This may be of some interest to the general philosophical community. For those who don't read Dutch, it says "Unknown Manuscript of Spinoza's ETHICS Found", and the article details how a Dutch scholar, Leen Spruit, discovered, in the Vatican archives, a Latin manuscript copy of the ETHICS from 1675. The manuscript apparently…
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A really weird academic freedom case at UC San Diego
A Dean telling a faculty member not to write about a certain topic because it involves a colleague? Wow. (Thanks to Tim O'Keefe for the pointer.)
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Darby Dickerson Named Dean at Texas Tech
After a long search, Texas Tech University School of Law has found its next dean. She is Dean Darby Dickerson of Stetson University College of Law. Dickerson, who holds a JD from Vanderbilt Law, has been at Stetson since 1995 and has been dean since 2004. Among many other things, she is the author of the Association of…
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PGR Draft Faculty Lists for 2011 Survey: *3rd Draft*
I believe I've incorporated all corrections to the second draft of the faculty lists (from April 20) for the fall 2011 surveys. To that end, here is the third draft: Download PGR Faculty Lists 2011-12. If I failed to incorporate a previously posted correction, my apologies: please either post again or e-mail me. (In a couple of cases,…
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The “Agenda Project” Doesn’t Like the Tea Party
Hard to imagine why. Catchy tune. They're also responsible for this nice item about the Republican plan to abolish medicare.
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Code from Rutgers to Stanford
Alan Code, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University at New Brunswick (and emeritus at Berkeley), has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University, effective July 1. Code is best-known for his work on Aristotle's metaphysics and logic. At Stanford, he will join, among others, his former student…
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Will Union-Busting Governors Pay a Political Price?
A hopeful sign from Ohio.
Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture (Amherst College Press, 2020) is a finalist for the 2026…