June 2011
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Philosophical Writing on the Centrality of Work (or Meaningful Work) to “Human Dignity” or Cognate Concepts
A colleague asked about this, and I drew a blank, apart from Karl Marx, who, of course, doesn't use the concept of human dignity. Any recommendations of philosophical work on this topic in the past 50 years or so? Thanks.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices Physically Assaulting Each Other?
This is really weird! I gather it's now a police matter. Even faculty don't do this kind of stuff to each other!
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New Books in June
Publishers and/or authors kindly sent me the following books in June: The Existence of God: A Philosophical Introduction by Yujin Nagasawa (Routledge, 2011). Intelligent Virtue by Julia Annas (Oxford University Press, 2011). Essays on Anscombe's "Intention" edited by Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby & Frederick Stoutland (Harvard University Press, 2011). German Philosophy of Language: From Schlegel…
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Even anti-Muslim thugs in England know their place
"I'm not Oxford-educated. We're not idiots. We know who our masters are. We just want them to do their job." –a leader of the English Defense League (quoted in this article)
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Cognitive Science Catches Up with Sartre
Alva Noe (CUNY) has a nice discussion of some recent work (at the NPR site), especially related to gender roles. (Thanks to Hyacinth Piel for the pointer.)
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Some Good News from America: the Two Leading Republican Candidates for President….
…Michelle Bachmann and Mitt Romney are unelectable–the former because her deranged ignorance and ideological excesses will scare off the so-called "independent" voters (the ones who decide U.S. elections), and the latter because his Mormonism will scare off evangelical Christians, an essential part of the vote for a Republican victory in any national election. God Bless America!…
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The Restructuring of British Higher Ed: the Latest…
…from IHE and THES. A propos Grayling's New College of the Humanities in London, note the proposal to make student loans available to for-profit institutions. Thoughts from readers on the new 'white paper'? Signed comments will be preferred.
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What to read as preparation for reading some core “analytic” figures like Quine, Putnam, and Davidson?
A relatively new reader of the blog writes: The reason I'm writing was to solicit your reccomendations on how best to go about learning the basics of analytical philsophy. I was a philosophy minor in college, from which I graduated two years ago, but never got a chance to take many classes in logic and…
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Comments policy
A reminder–or pointer for new readers–that I do have one.
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Law School Enrollments and Jobs for Lawyers
The numbers are not pretty.
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Plutocracy Watch, Inequality Edition
A useful compilation, that highlights some of the extreme pathologies of American plutocracy.
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More Koch Brothers Gifts to Universities…with Strings Attached
IHE has the details.
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New GRE…or Old?
A reader thinking about grad school in philosophy writes: I am an undergrad looking to apply to philosophy departments for Fall 2013. Is there any reason for me to take the old GRE for what would be a year early? Is there reason to believe that professors who review applications would put more weight on…
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The Most Important American Judges of the 20th-Century
As we enter the dog days of summer, we might as well do a new poll for some amusement. This time readers are asked to rank order the most important American judges of the 20th-century. No doubt I've missed some really good ones, but hopefully there are enough of the major federal and state judges…
Sorry to keep beating a dead horse, but something just occurred to me that I haven’t seen anyone discuss. Why…