November 2012
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Who is your favorite philosopher?
(LINK NOW FIXED) PhilosophyBites asked lots of philosophers (and some others), and collected all the answers here. Participants inlude Frank Jackson, Tim Crane, Kit Fine, Martha Nussbaum, Raymond Geuss, Cynthia Freeland, Helen Beebee, Joshua Knobe, Sean Kelly, Gideon Rosen, Noel Carroll, and me, among many others; in the "others" category there's Nicola Lacey, Catharine MacKinnon…
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Schrag on Tamanaha
MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOV. 28–SEE UPDATE Philip Schrag (Georgetown) has written an interesting, substantive criticism of Tamanaha's Failing Law Schools, focusing, in particular, on what he argues is Tamanaha's misunderstanding of current debt repayment programs and their effects on credit-worthiness. UPDATE: Tamanaha has a useful response to Schrag here, conceding some points about the…
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Guest-Blogger: Amy Ferrer, Executive Director of the APA
I'm very pleased, indeed, that Ms. Ferrer, the APA's recently appointed Executive Director, has accepted an invitation to be a guest blogger here next week (Monday, December 3 through Friday, December 7). I will put up a few items next week as well, but Ms. Ferrer will be the main attraction, and I'm sure readers will appreciate her contributions.
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New Books in November
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Corrective Justice by Ernest Weinrib (Oxford University Press, 2012). The Idea of Privae Law by Ernest Weinrib (revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2012). Love: A History by Simon May (Yale University Press, 2011; paperback edition, 2012). Reading Putnam edited by Maria Baghramian (Routledge, 2013).…
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Case Western Dean Mitchell: “Law school is worth the money”
In The New York Times. He makes a number of quite fair points, though omits mention of the projected BLS gap in the number of new lawyer positions relative to the number of newly minted lawyers. A fairer thing to say would be that many law schools are worth the money, but not all are, and…
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Apparently it pays to be a disgraced university President
Wow. The real story, of course, is the extent to which university presidents are being paid like CEOs. Another triumph of the market.
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The Academic Job Market in Law: Looking Forward
As Dan noted last week, there was another nearly 20% drop in the number of LSAT takers in October. That will almost surely translate into another decline in the total number of law school applicants and then law students, which will put further financial pressure on two-thirds or more of law schools in the United…
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Nordic Wittgenstein Review
The inaugural issue is free on-line.
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Attridge Named Dean at Catholic
Daniel Attridge, a senior partner in the Washington DC office of Kirkland and Ellis has been picked as the new law school dean at Catholic University.
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Florida’s Campaign Against the Humanities
These developments bear watching, since venal "ideas" like these usually spread to other states with large numbers of right-wing crazies (the Florida Governor is a "Tea Party" favorite).
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Cambridge’s Huw Price says…
…watch out for your computer! (Thanks to Brad Wray for the pointer.) UPDATE: David Chalmers (NYU/ANU) discusses related issues here. (Thanks to Varol Akman for the pointer.)
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List of Active Law School Dean Searches
I've started up my annual accounting of dean searches here. Please let me know of any errors or updates.
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Foreign Policy’s Curious List of 100 “Global Thinkers”…
…is out once again, and it includes, as usual, some non-thinkers (Paul Ryan, Dick & Liz Cheney [!]), as well as a few philosophers, or folks in the vicinity of philosophy: Jurgen Habermas, Michael Sandel, Martha Nussbaum, and Slavoj Zizek.
I wonder how feasible and time-intensive it would be to make it a standard policy check for undisclosed AI usage.…