September 2011
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Farewell to the Eastern APA, Redux?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–A VALUABLE DISCUSSION, I HOPE OTHERS WILL CONTRIBUTE After last year's weather fiasco, we had a vigorous discussion of whether departments, for their own benefit and the benefit of candidates, shouldn't eschew interviews at the Eastern APA in favor of Skype interviews. Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown) recently e-mailed me suggesting now might…
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New Books in Philosophy Podcast
Anderson on "The Imperative of Integration."
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NY Times: The Paper of Nepotistic Record
But this really takes the prize: Bill Keller, the former managing editor (notable mainly for his pandering to right-wing crazies), writes a gushing review of a book by a good friend of his wife's! Have these people no shame?
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Progressive Visions of the Constitution and Constitutional Interpretation
Essays by Geof Stone (Chicago) & Bill Marshall (North Carolina), and Douglas Kendall & Jim Ryan (Virginia), and a reply by Willy Forbath (Texas).
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How to get media attention for your research?
Make up exciting results! (More here.) (Thanks to Lisa Seldon for the pointer.)
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The Right-Wing Blob Descends on Krugman
Krugman's 9/11 blog post (noted briefly yesterday) didn't strike me as very good (his follow-up was better), for reasons well-described here (to which I would only add: it seems very unlikely that the exploiters of 9/11, let alone the nation as a whole, "knows" or recognizes the exploitation of the atrocity). It was, of course, predictable that…
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How many graduates from leading law schools are on the teaching market?
End-of-the-year reporting on blogs about rookie hiring, while always incomplete, rarely includes any sense of how many job seekers from each school were actually on the market. Here's a useful compilation for this year, based on the first two FAR distributions, that we might want to revisit in the Spring: University of California, Berkeley: 18…
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Illinois Admissions Dean Suspended Over Inaccurate Data on Student Credentials
News item here. I will update as more concrete information becomes available.
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Don’t forget another 9/11 atrocity…
In a different time and place and in which, to its eternal shame, the U.S. had a role.
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The 9/11 Atrocities One Decade Later
I'll just post links to what I wrote on the occasion of the 5th anniversary: this a personal recollection of the day, this a comment on the political and public culture five years later. Ten years later, some, but hardly all, of the madness has receded. Certainly the Republican Party now–one need only look at their…
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Can there be progress in philosophy?
The real question is whether the fact that wine is being served before Jason Stanley comes face-to-face with Carlin Romano makes it more or less likely that blows will be exchanged. (If there's a recording, audio or video, of the event, do let me know.)
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Huw Price, David Hume, and Friedrich Nietzsche
Speaking of NDPR reviews, this one on Huw Price's important collection of papers is also illuminating.
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“All Things Shining,” Once Again
We did some posts on the media coverage of this book earlier this year, and now a thoughtful, and I think quite apt, NDPR review has appeared. Although I have great admiration for work that both Dreyfus and Kelly have done in the past, I did think this book (I couldn't finish it, I have…
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A Condorcet Ranking of Philosophy Departments
The real PGR surveys will be getting underway in a few weeks, but I thought it might be interesting (or at least amusing) to see how the top 20 U.S. departments get ranked using the Condorcet system. Internet polls are fraught with obvious problems, but the Condorcet system often does amazingly well at undermining strategic voting…
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…