November 2012
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More Audio Lectures
Reader Sean Wellock writes: I was happy to see your recent posts with links to the valedictorian speech by G.A. Cohen, and to the collection of philosophy podcasts. I think free audio lectures can be a great resource, particularly for recent graduates like myself. In case some other readers are interested, here is a link…
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O’Connor on Adorno
This is the newest volume in the Routledge Philosophers series I edit, and it's one I'm particularly pleased about. Adorno is one of those famously difficult German philosophers, who also gave reasons for why his prose needed to be so difficult. But Brian O'Connor (University College Dublin) is remarkably lucid in his exposition, both of…
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Edinburgh Faculty Introduce…
…anyone in the world to philosophy. Nice!
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Berman Leaves GW Deanship To Become Vice-Provost
Dean Paul Schiff Berman at George Washington University School of Law will be leaving his post in January to take over as the University's Vice-Provost for Online Education and Academic Innovation. He joined GW from Arizona State in 2011.
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Want your article to be widely cited?
Get it rejected first! (Thanks to Brad Wray for the pointer.)
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Council for the Defense of British Universities
Let us hope it succeeds. More information here.
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Velleman’s “Against the Right to Die” in Less than 100 Words
In The Economist, courtesy of philosopher Jason Waller (Eastern Illinois). UPDATE: Actually, the main bit of the argument mentioned in this letter comes from an article Velleman cites: Gerald Dworkin, “Is More Choice Better Than Less?”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Social and Political Philosophy), (ed.) P. French (University of Minnesota Press, 1982).
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Interesting and apt post-mortem election remarks…
…from Robert Paul Wolff.
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Rutgers’ Frances Egan…
…at 3AM.
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A change in federal student loan repayment plans
A colleague at Georgetown sends along this explanation of a new Obama Administration policy: [T]he government issued the final regulations for the new Pay As You Earn student loan repayment plan, an initiative of the Obama administration. 77 Fed. Reg. 66088….Although the regs are quite complex, the bottom line is this: Graduates currently in school…
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How the Republicans Won the House While Losing the Election
A clear explanation courtesy of my colleague Geoffrey Stone.
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Old racist habits die hard…
…even among the nominally "educated."
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Papineau on a Different Way of Teaching Logic to Philosophy Students
I asked David Papineau (King's College, London) to share a bit about how he teaches logic at KCL, since I thought it might be of general interest: Once philosophy students get beyond the foothills, they are likely to start coming across passing references to ideas like denumerability, Bayesian conditionalization, modal scope distinctions, logical completeness, and…
Don’t click the transcript – it’s a mis-transcription that makes Harvey sound unhinged. The bit of it that’s visible without…