September 2012
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Nice to know there are countries where Google has to abide by the ordinary laws…
…without a special cyber-exception (e.g., CDA 230).
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Summer Associate Hires Up Over 15% Since 2011…
…and the permanent offer rate remains over 96%.
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Beiser at 3AM
Fascinating interview with one of our greatest historians of 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy. An excerpt: That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy. Hegel defines philosophy as knowledge of the absolute. The absolute is essentially what Spinoza calls substance. Since…
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Kids ain’t reading and righting so good these days…
…Spiros reports.
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A new philosophy podcast series…
…from Johnny Søraker at Twente.
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Slight increase in total positions in English and Foreign Languages in 2011-12
Details here. My impression–but it is only an impression, I'm not aware of data yet–is that something similar has been true in philosophy. Unfortunately, these modest gains still leave us well short of where the profession was prior to the economic collapse. The unknown is how many academic job seekers are or will give up. …
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Women in physics
These issues will sound familiar.
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What happened to America over the last two generations
In another one of his delicious dissections of Obama, David Bromwich offers the following apt observation about the "big picture" in American politics over the last generation or two: The Obama presidency has gone far to complete the destruction of New Deal politics which began when Bill Clinton brought Wall Street into the White House. …
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Still More Thoughts on the Phillips & Yoo Citation Study
Mr. Phillips writes, in reply to the criticisms noted last week: Prof. Leiter’s colleague’s concerns are about false positives, which would inflate scores. We find this the lesser evil, and thus diverged from the Leiter method by not using his sampling technique (which we failed to make clear in our methods section, and have since…
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2012 Ig Nobel Prizes
A few that are especially funny or should interest philosophers: NEUROSCIENCE PRIZE: Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller, and George Wolford [USA], for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, can see meaningful brain activity anywhere — even in a dead salmon…. LITERATURE PRIZE: The US Government General Accountability Office, for…
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The only “Voter Fraud” in America is the Push for Voter ID
This is funny and apt.
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Putnam on Heidegger’s careless scholarship…
…courtesy of Alan Gilbert.
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A new revenue source for Philosophy Departments: On-Line Marketting
Princeton leads the way.
I wonder how feasible and time-intensive it would be to make it a standard policy check for undisclosed AI usage.…