November 2012
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New Philosophy App: Phi2Phi
Courtesy of philosopher Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto); this is a peer-to-peer iPhone/iPad app for philosophers to test counterexamples, ask questions, and float ideas-—all anonymously. And it's totally free!
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Rawls won the election, Nozick lost!
According to an article in Slate. I suppose put that way, it's true, though the difference principle, or something vaguely like it, hasn't done much work in Democratic politics since LBJ. (Thanks to John Doris for the pointer.)
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Steve Fuller is a Shill for Intelligent Design
(The reason for the title of this post will become clear, below.) Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education called my attention last week to this putative review by Steve Fuller of Nagel's Mind and Cosmos; the review was aptly described by another correspondent as "a largely content-free mix of self-promotion and derogation of…
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On-line courses…
…story in The Washington Post.
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Twenty Million Visits
It was only in February 2010 that this blog crossed the ten million threshold, and now today we crossed the twenty million visitor mark. It took not quite seven years to hit ten million visits, and less than three years to add another ten million, a tangible indication that, even as the philosophy blogosphere has…
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Undergraduates in China interested in exchange programs in the US
A reader in China writes: I am a Chinese undergraduate philosophy major who wants to pursue a PhD degree in North America. For 2012-2013 I have a chance to study philosophy at a U.S. department as an exchange student. My experience in the States so far has made me realize how unlikely it will be…
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Leave it to the far right Jerusalem Post to issue the decisive call for genocide
One can't make this up: We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they’d really call for a ceasefire.…
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Co-authorship rates by discipline?
Jason Clark, a postdoc at the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrueck, writes: It seems clear that philosophers co-author papers far less often than scientists do, but while there has been some discussion on your blog as to the market value of co-authored works, I haven't found any mention of comparative data…
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University of Texas Law School Crisis Redux: UT System and AG Critical of Forgivable Loans
The Texas Tribune has the story and the links to the pertinent documents arising from last year's turmoil. Only a small portion of the report is actually given over to criticizing the forgivable loan the Law School Foundation gave to former Dean Larry Sager (his spokesman has a sharp response to that which can be downloaded…
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Harvard’s Richard Moran…
…at 3AM.
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Women as academic authors
Interesting charts from CHE. (Thanks to Richard Marshall for the pointer.)
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Cambridge’s Tim Crane…
…at 3AM.
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Philosophy Faculties by American Academy Membership
MOVING TO FRONT, WITH CORRECTIONS Here are the faculties with at least two elected Fellows of the American Academy (bear in mind the usual caveats about how the Academy works): 1. New York University (Block, Boghossian, Dworkin [cognate, part-time], Field, Fine, Garrett, Longuenesse, Nagel, Parfit [part-time], Scheffler, Schiffer, Waldron [cognate, part-time], Wright) 2. University of California, Los…
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Another Drop in LSAT Takers
All you need to know is this: LSAC reports 18% fewer first-timers sat for the October LSAT this year as compared to last year.
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Richard Davenport-Hines Did Not Like David Halperin’s Book
As part of our periodic series of scathing book reviews, from the TLS: The tragedy of queer studies is that a subject of exceptional importance to humanity is left in the clutches of show-offs who reduce it to self-centred banality. Sexuality and gender are at the heart of understanding human motivation. Treated with intelligence and…
@ The Pacific: Good questions. My point isn’t that journals can’t adopt that stance, only that I won’t referee for…