March 2012
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Chalmers Accepts Permanent Post at NYU
David Chalmers (philosophy of mind and language, metaphysics), who in addition to his appointment at the Australian National University has been a regular Visiting Professor of Philosophy each fall at New York University, has accepted a tenured appointment at NYU as Professor of Philosophy. For at least the next two years, he will spend fall…
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So what the heck is “metaphysics”?
Richard Marshall talks to Kit Fine. This seemed to me the most striking bit: KF: I’m firmly of the opinion that real progress in philosophy can only come from taking common sense seriously. A departure from common sense is usually an indication that a mistake has been made. If you like, common sense is the…
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Many thanks to Kieran Healy…
…for a fascinating set of posts last week, which you can see here.
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Law School Debt “Disaster”
Disaster seems to be the right word.
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Law School Debt “Disaster”
Disaster seems to be the right word.
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The Doonesbury Abortion Cartoon that Many Newspapers Would Not Carry
All six installments here. It's rather good.
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Ruth Barcan Marcus NY Times Obituary Update
I've been travelling and largely off-line the last week or so, hence the delay in noting that the NY Times corrected the error in the on-line version of the obituary. As Stephen Neale (CUNY) wrote to me, "The writer, who is a journalist, not a philosopher or mathematician, had the unenviable task of distilling material…
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Departmental and Specialty Affinities net of Reputation
The two-sided quality of the connection between departments and specialties invites us to find ways of visualizing them both at the same time. But the large number of departments and specialties makes it tricky to generate interpretable pictures. There is a large family of methods designed to map multidimensional data onto just a couple of…
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A Not Quite Satisfactory Way of Looking at Departments and Specialties
One of the nice features of the PGR data is the duality in the relationship between departments and specialties. Departmental identities are defined in part by the kind of specialized work that gets done in them. The identity of areas is associated with particular departments and schools (with a large or small ‘s’). The PGR…
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Ratings and Field Position
I want to get to the department-level stuff today instead of just looking at the raters, but I promised yesterday that I’d say something about the relationship between the field position of raters and their voting patterns. As with specialty areas, where you stand might depend on where you sit. If we slice raters into…
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Suit Against New York Law School Dismissed
Yesterday, Judge Melvin Schweitzer of the Supreme Court of New York, New York County, dismissed the suit charging that New York Law School fraudulently reported employment and salary data. The opinion in Alexandra Gomez-Jimenez vs. New York Law School can be found here. By the way, Schweitzer is a 1969 graduate of Fordham Law and a…
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Suit Against New York Law School Dismissed
Yesterday, Judge Melvin Schweitzer of the Supreme Court of New York, New York County, dismissed the suit charging that New York Law School fraudulently reported employment and salary data. The opinion in Alexandra Gomez-Jimenez vs. New York Law School can be found here. By the way, Schweitzer is a 1969 graduate of Fordham Law and a…
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Ratings and Specialties
Yesterday we saw that raters come mostly from the top half of of PGR ranked schools, with a good chunk of them from very highly-ranked schools. We also saw that specialty areas are not equally represented in the rater pool. (Specialty areas are not equally represented within departments, either, because not all subfields have equal…
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Did US News Law School Rankings Rely On Incorrect Data?
Robert Morse, ranker-in-chief, announced that St. Thomas (MN) reported incorrect at-graduation placement data. Rather than having placed 80.6% of its grads at graduation, as US News reported in its ranking, St. Thomas actually placed 32.9% of its graduates. St. Thomas promptly self-reported this error and it's unclear who should be on the hook for it. According…
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Did US News Law School Rankings Rely On Incorrect Data?
Robert Morse, ranker-in-chief, announced that St. Thomas (MN) reported incorrect at-graduation placement data. Rather than having placed 80.6% of its grads at graduation, as US News reported in its ranking, St. Thomas actually placed 32.9% of its graduates. St. Thomas promptly self-reported this error and it's unclear who should be on the hook for it. According…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that