July 2012
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New Books in July
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me the following new books this month: The Soul of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, by Maudemarie Clark & David Dudrick (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The Making of Modern Liberalism by Alan Ryan (Princeton University Press, 2012).
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Freedom of expression under threat at the University of Wyoming
Philosopher Jeffrey Lockwood writes about what's been going on there.
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The Humanities are for Everyone
A nice reminder. (Thanks to David Liakos for the pointer.)
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Lateral Hires with Tenure Since August 2011
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS AGAIN AS OF AUGUST 1 (hires starting after fall 2012 will appear in a new listing in the fall). MOVING TO FRONT (for last time) FROM MAY 22–WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS Here are faculty who have moved laterally to a tenured position since the report on this blog last August; I imagine Dan Filler…
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Blog Ad Space Availability-Update
All six spots are now sold out through the end of November; 2 spots remain in December, and 2 or more spots every month thereafter. Please contact me at bleiter-at-uchicago-dot-edu with any questions.
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The QS Subject Rankings are Complete Garbage…
…at least for anyone interested in the quality of the faculty in philosophy. They are based on a hard-to-decipher methodology, though as Jo Wolff (UCL) pointed out previously, it seems to give decisive weight to "employer" opinions. The law rankings are also very bad, though not as bad, partly because elite research universities do tend to have the…
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Three Philosophy PhD Students Win Newcombe Fellowships
They are: Daniela Dover (NYU); Kelly Heuer (Georgetown); and Camisha Russell (Penn State). You can see a list of prior winners (and where they are now) here. (If anyone has the 2007 list of winners, please send it to me.) (Thankts to Peter DeAngelis for the pointer.)
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Fisk on Syria
This is a good read.
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Mindless Social-Parasite Celebrity Kim Karsdashian Meets Kierkegaard
Amusing. (Thanks to the many different readers who sent this.) UPDATE: Rob Tempio points out that Justin Bieber (talentless teen hearthrob) has merged with Martin Buber (somewhat more talented, but not as popular as he once was, existential philosopher) to tweet as Justin Buber.
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Otago’s Alan Musgrave Honored with “Distinguished Research Medal”
Details about the award, and Professor Musgrave's work and career are here. (Thanks to Gregory McCormick for the pointer.)
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Three Philosophers Win Australian Future Fellowships
The winners are Peter Anstey (Sydney), Catherine Mills (Monash), and Alison Ross (Monash). The Fellowship relieves the winners of teaching and administration for four years (rather nice!) There is more information here. (Thanks to Dirk Baltzly for the pointer.)
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“The U.K. Graduate Student’s Guide to Interpreting Feedback from American Faculty”
Courtesy of sociologist Kieran Healy (Duke).
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More thoughts on the ABA Sanction of Illinois and the Fine
Eugenen Kontorovich (Northwestern) writes regarding the ABA fine on the University of Illinois: I was quite surprised that the ABA pockets the $$$. Since the false information presumably misled some students, shouldn't they be the ones who see the money, in the form of a tuition credit? As it is, the ABA, a wealthy organization…
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An introduction to philosophical method(s)?
An undergraduate at Rutgers writes: I was wondering whether there were any recent books that you would say stand out as works on philosophical methodology these days. I've found a few books on philosophical method dating to the early formation of ordinary language analysis, but might there be more current treatments of the topic that…
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Anderson Podcast on “Tom Paine and the Ironies of Social Democracy”
So we had an interesting interview with Elizabeth Anderson at 3AM recently, and my Law School just posted the podcast of her wonderful Dewey Lecturer in Law & Philosophy from last year. It's both entertaining and informative (and also timely).
Re: enforcing the policy via Pangram. I must be a Large Language Model, then: Just checked one of my paper…