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My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…
If much of the interest of high-quality papers lies between the lines—in the metaphorical fire that a paper lights in…
I would also recommend that potential grad students make inquiries into how far the compensation package actually goes towards cost…
It’s a mix. I’m still in the UAE with my family, and we feel safe. But some students and faculty…
In the above comment, Michel wrote: “As an aside, every once in a while I check out how the chatbots…
I could imagine LLMs having saved me a *ton* of time in graduate school–e.g., by having supplied reasonable answers to…
The McMaster Department of Philosophy has now put together the following notice commemorating Barry: Barry Allen: A Philosophical Life Barry…
Jerry Dworkin (UC Davis) submits this candidate from law:
Perish, Shook, & Wiebelhaus-Brahm on Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring (posted on SSRN)
He suggests a philosophy contest. Readers?
I nominate "Formal Logic" by Read and Wright.
Stephen Read and Crispin Wright _Formal Logic_
Not sure about the philosophy champ, but in the category of "overall winner, academic publication" I submit Alpher, Bethe, Gamow, "The Origin of Chemical Elements" Physical Review (1948).
Isn't there a Logic textbook co-authored by (Stephen)Read and (Crispin)Wright?
There is, of course, the "Intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces" paper by Cox and Zucker which gave rise to the maturely-titled "Cox-Zucker machine".
These must really be the slow days of summer.
BL COMMENT: Yes! But so far, this thread is pretty funny!
The Alpha/Beta/Gamma paper mentioned in #3 is a classic, but from physics there is also a well-known paper on black hole collisions by D'Eath and Payne:
http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v46/i2/p675_1
In astronomy, anything Sumner Starrfield writes by himself:
There's also Lord Brain's contribution to neuroscience:
Anything by Arthur Prior on the subject of tense logic, even if it isn't joint authorship.
Outside philosophy, but … Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox, The Imperial Animal
Not sure if this counts since it involves a mistake rather than genuine joint authorship, but according to Amazon, Stephen Kleene co-wrote a book with Mathematics itself.
If I read the thread title as containing shudder quotes, I can in good conscience suggest Alex Oliver and Alexius Schmeinong's joint paper "Ghost Writers".
Although this suggestion is perhaps in poor taste and a bit juvenile, I couldn't help but blush while watching (Derek) Ball and (Bryan) Pickel present their "One Dogma of Millianism" at the most recent Pacific APA.
Groenendijk, J. and M. Stokhof, 1984, Studies on the Semantics of Questions and the Pragmatics of Answers,Doctoral dissertation, University of Amsterdam.
This is a JOINTLY written doctoral dissertation! It is also considered as a classic in the field of formal semantics
The Essence of Organic Chemistry, Cram & Cram
The Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction by Smith and Jones
This doesn't quite fit, but the names of the opinion-writers in Riggs v. Palmer always make me chuckle: Earl and Gray. Either my students aren't tea-drinkers or they're sticklers for spelling (the latter seems unlikely).
It always makes me chuckle when I read a paper by "Jennifer Saul"… "Jenny"… don't you all remember how funny Forrest Gump says "Jenny"… "Jenn-AYE"!!! ha ha ha, it cracks me up…
Wait, are we 8 years old now? You do know that there are real people mentioned above, who have spent their entire lives on "dur hur you have a funny name" lists, who got PhD's and thought they could live in relative peace, far away from childish penis-jokes etc., only to find themselves singled out on the principal blog people in the field read… for, dur hur, having funny names?
Good god.
BL COMMENT: I'm not sure what to say to a sanctimonious scold. The jokes concern the juxtaposition of names. If someone feels badly about this, they should contact me, and I will remove the comment. But I've heard from no one. As someone whose own last name lends itself to many puns, I have to confess I don't lose sleep over it.
We have a White and a Gray in our Philosophy department here. Unfortunately the late Black taught Biology. But White and Black did co-teach a bioethics class once.
Philosophy in the Flesh by Lakoff & Johnson
If you accept title/author combos, then of course "Sense and Sensibilia" by J Austin is pretty good.
Best (hypothetical) book review, whose time has sadly now passed:
Les Green and John Gardner reviewing (Dworkin's) Justice for Hedgehogs, i.e., "Justice for Hedgehogs" by Green Gardner.
Katz and Shatz "Synaptic Activity and the Construction of Cortical Circuits"
John Turri and I are editing a collection together. Turns out that John's father is another John, so my co-editor is John Turri, Jr. The spine will read Littlejohn Turri. (Filed under mildly amusing/potential Gettier case.)
A paper by J. J. c. Smart, somebody Sharpe, and somebody Keene.
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