November 2012
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Another Interfolio issue
An employed philosopher who is also a job seeker writes: Interfolio’s privacy policy and terms of use authorize the sharing of job seekers’ full dossiers and application histories with anyone working for their university. This means that if you are employed at a university, your colleagues may be allowed to see your dossier. This is…
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Neurofeminism
Houston's Anne Jacobson at 3AM.
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Signs of the times: Vermont Law School “buying out” staff, maybe faculty
Story here. As we've noted before, free-standing law schools that are not part of universities are often the most vulnerable in an economic downturn. (As an amusing sidenote, you will see that that expert self-promoter and failed academic, Paul Campos, gets himself quoted insulting Vermont Law School in the linked article. Journalists, alas, eat this…
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“Analytic” Philosophers vs. SPEPPies
Spiros doesn't make this exlicit, but this anecdote concerns a university with a department with a large SPEP contingent.
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Plutocracy Watch: Bill O’Reilly/Ronald Reagan Edition
Reagan sent America off the rails, and this cartoon makes the point powerfully. UPDATE: Krugman on so-called "New Republicans" is also relevant.
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U.S. Philosophy Faculties by British Academy Membership
Unsurprisingly, the numbers are smaller: 1. New York University (R. Dworkin [cognate, part-time], K. Fine, T. Nagel, D. Parfit [part-time], J. Waldron [cognate, part-time], C. Wright) 2. Columbia University (J. Elster [cognate], C. Peacocke, J. Raz [cognate, part-time]) 3. Harvard University (T. Scanlon, A. Sen) 3. University of California, Los Angeles (T. Burge, D. Kaplan)…
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“Live like a Stoic” week
Next week at Exeter. (Thanks to P.S. Horky for the pointer.)
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Steve Fuller Makes Things Up
A few readers pointed out that the putative "review" of Nagel's Mind and Cosmos by Steve Fuller is full of bizarre howlers on top of everything else. Anyone familiar with Fuller's actual "scholarly" work knows that he makes up his history of science to suit the polemics of the moment: Fuller's grasp of history of…
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An actually interesting observation about the tabloid melodrama involving General Petraeus and his mistress
Here; an excerpt: So over the weekend I read All In, Paula Broadwell's slobberific biography of General David Petraeus. It was nothing special, just a typically crappy piece of fawning, noncritical journalism, full of passages like the following: "At Petraeus's change of command in Baghdad in the summer of 2008, Secretary Gates claimed that 'history…
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Spinoza on the radio
Actually, Susan James (Birkbeck), Beth Lord (Dundee), and Steven Nadler (Wisconsin) talking about him. (Thanks to Dirk Felleman for the pointer.) UPDATE: Spinoza is on twitter too. (Thanks to Kevin A. for the pointer.)
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Penn State To Split Into Two Law Schools
The dean of Penn State Law announced this week that the school would split the two campuses – State College and Carlisle – into two different law schools. I have some further thoughts here.
It would be a shame if bad philosophy of mind got us all killed. AI can absolutely have desires and…