August 2011
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Ezra Pound Redux
Recent events bring to mind Pound's apt obsevation, "There is no use talking to the ignorant about lies, for they have no criteria."
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Maitra, Weatherson from Rutgers to Michigan
Ishani Maitra (philosophy of language, feminist philosophy), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, Newark and New Brunswick, and Brian Weatherson (epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, have both accepted tenured offers from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, effective January 2012.…
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Philosophy Under Attack in Mexico
I was also sent this letter, but since the New APPS blog has already gotten it up, I invite readers to go there for the text and information about how to voice your support.
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Chuck Norris is almost certainly one of the most irrelevant people in the history of the world…
…but he can be the occasion for some good philosophical jokes.
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Rick Perry, the Texas Taliban’s Man
In case you didn't believe me. (Thanks to Clayton Littlejohn for the pointer.)
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USC Philosophy Grad Student Lands Starring Role in New TV Sitcom!
He goes by the stage name Luka Jones. Will he finish his dissertation? (Thanks to Evan Goodwin for the pointer.)
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Plato on the English Riots
Here. (Thanks to George Iordanou for the pointer.)
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Waddell from Villanova to Saint Mary’s College
Michael Waddell (medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion), currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, has accepted the Aquinas Chair in Philosophy at St. Mary's College of Notre Dame, Indiana, effective this fall.
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Some more lateral hires with tenure
Here are some that have been confirmed over the last couple of months: Sujit Choudhry (comparative constitutional law) from University of Toronto to New York University. john a. powell (civil rights, race and the law) from Ohio State University to the University of California, Berkeley, where he will Direct the Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative, and have…
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Should Linda Alcoff Resign as the Vice-President, i.e., President-Elect of the Eastern APA?
I've heard this suggestion more than once over the last few weeks, in light of the scandalous and utterly fraudulent "Climate for Women" report she was instrumental in circulating and now defending. Should someone involved in such public misconduct assume a leadership position in any professional organization of philosophers? The three smeared departments–smeared on the basis…
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The Difficulties of Philosophical Translation
This is an instructive review.
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“Parfit’s Fanaticism”
Eric Schliesser (Ghent) comments.
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Where NLJ 100 Law Firm Partners Went to School
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) has posted a study. He did not adjust the results for differences in school size (e.g., Harvard and Georgetown are huge, Yale and Stanford small), for reasons that didn't make any sense to me. Also bear in mind that NLJ 100 firms are heavily concentrated in the Northeast corridor, also a factor…
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Villanova Censured by ABA
As I noted previously, Dean John Gotanda at Villanova got stuck with an ugly LSAT/GPA problem during his first week on the job. Now the ABA has come back with bad news and good news. The bad news: Villanova Law was censured for "reprehensible" reporting of inaccurate admissions data from 2005-09 and the inaccuracies…
Dear Roger of Invisible America, Your remarks towards the end of this comment about Nat Goldhaber (I’ve got a friend…