April 2012
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New Books in April
Publishers and/or authors kindly sent me the following books this month: Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn by Joel Isaac (Harvard University Press, 2012). The Spirit of Compromise by Amy Gutmann & Dennis Thompson (Princeton University Press, 2012). The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age…
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European austerity measures and the universities
CHE story here.
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“Shift happens”
A CHE essay on Kuhn. (Thanks to Adam Kohler for the pointer.)
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Reaction Formation Watch, Part 211: the Case of Anti-Gay Bigots
We've touched on this before, but now there's new evidence.
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Krauss vs. the Philosophers
Lawrence Krauss, a physicist at Arizona State University, wrote a book on the physics of how "something can come from nothing," and thought it answered the old philosophical question to that effect. He got lots of praise from other philosophical ignoramuses, and then along came David Albert, a distinguished philosopher of physics at Columbia University…
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Humanities Crisis at Pitt
Some HPS students have started a blog, and have more information about what's going on.
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Raffman on Marcus
A very apt remembrance of Ruth Barcan Marcus. I am sure that if her health had been better, she would have reprimanded me for being insufficiently critical of the hack moderator of the blog series in which this item appears!
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Dudziak from Southern Cal to Emory
Mary Dudziak, a leading legal historian at the University of Southern California, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Emory University, where she will direct a new Project on War and Security in Law, Culture and Society.
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Menn on Mueller
A fascinating portrait of a distinguished scholar and philosopher, which sheds light not only on his career, but on intellectual trends and tendencies in philosophical scholarship over the past couple of generations (esp. with respect to scholarship on ancient philosophy).
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Share your successful grad school ‘personal statement’…
…with Schwitzgebel.
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Schapiro Named Dean of Emory
Emory University School of Law has announced the appointment of Robert Schapiro as the school's permanent dean. He has been serving as interim dean since last July. Schapiro is a graduate of Yale Law School and clerked for Justice Stevens. He is a constitutional law and civil procedure scholar and has been on the Emory faculty since…
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William Carter To Lead Pitt Law
The University of Pittsburgh has named William "Chip" Carter, Professor of Law at Temple, as its new dean, effective July 1, 2012. Carter previously taught at Case Law, where he also received his JD.
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In Memoriam: Facts (360 B.C.-2012 A.D.)
A memorial notice here. (Thanks to Varol Akman for the pointer.)
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Summer reading lists?
A philosopher at a top department relays the following request from one of her graduate students: I had a question about the summer. As we're narrowing down our field of study, some of us were hoping to spend some time in the summer reading core articles in our field – i.e. ones that we really…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…