December 2011
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And now Michigan posts its employment stats…
…in more or less the Yale/Chicago format. One thing surprising here is that Michigan has salary data on only a bit more than half of the class of 2010, which seems rather low. CORRECTION: A colleague at Michigan tells me that Michigan has posted employment stats in this format for a number of years.
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JHP Book Prize for 2011
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded the annual prize for the best book published on the history of Western philosophy in 2010 to Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt, Austria) for Die Erklärbarkeit von Erfahrung. Subjektivität und Realismus in Spinozas Theorie des menschlichen Geistes (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 2010).
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NYU Joins the Fray and Posts Detailed Employment Data
Here. The big jump in 2010 in graduates allegedly "not seeking employment" is a bit odd.
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NYU Joins the Fray and Posts Detailed Employment Data
Here. The big jump in 2010 in graduates allegedly "not seeking employment" is a bit odd.
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“Philosophy Gags”
The creator is selling these works and will donate the proceeds to charity.
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Spam and comments
Due to a crazy influx of commercial spam comments–which Typepad used to be rather good at weeding out–I've had to add a "word verification" feature for comments. So prior to submitting a comment, going forward, you will have to type an automatically generated set of letters into a box before submitting. Sorry for the extra…
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The mechanics of plutocracy
It certainly helps when most of the elected "representatives" are themselves members.
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Palast on Xmas in the Plutocracy
This is funny, in a very dark humor kind of way.
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Australian Future Fellowships
Three philosophers have received these competitive, multi-year awards in the 2011 competition: they are Paolo Bubbio (Western Sydney) for a project on "The quest for the 'I': reaching a better understanding of self through Hegel and Heidegger"; Mark Colyvan (Sydney) for "Mathematical explanation"; and Philip Gerrans (Adelaide) for "The emotional construction of self-representation."
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Glymour’s Brief for Carnegie-Mellon
This curiously unselfconscious "manifesto" by Clark Glymour (Carnegie-Mellon)–apparently prompted by my passing comment at New Apps that CMU's department is idioscynratic qua philosophy department, but very good at what it does–has generated a good deal of comment, both at the place where posted, but also here and here. While clearly written and certainly offering a distinctive view…
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Saying “Merry Christmas” is Worse than Fornication and Alcohol
I'm inclined to agree it's quite inferior, though perhaps that's not quite what this fellow meant.
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In Memoriam: Larry Ribstein (1946-2011)
I'm very sorry to report, via Larry Solum, this shocking news. At the time of his death, he held an endowed Chair at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he had taught since 2002. He was well-known for his wide-ranging work on issues in corporate law and securities regulation. I will post links to…
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In Memoriam: Larry Ribstein (1946-2011)
I'm very sorry to report, via Larry Solum, this shocking news. At the time of his death, he held an endowed Chair at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he had taught since 2002. He was well-known for his wide-ranging work on issues in corporate law and securities regulation. I will post links to…
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L’Affaire Hauser
A thorough and damning assessment (including the more recent plagiarism issue), by Charles Gross, a psychologist at Princeton.
I never met Alan, sadly, but his work leading the charge in making philosophy of sex “a thing” in contemporary…