December 2012
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2012: Philosophers who passed away
The passing of the following philosophers was noted on the blog during the past year: Jonathan Adler, Annette Baier, Hugo Bedau, Frank Cioffi, Thompson Clarke, R.G. Frey, John Hick, William R. Jones, Paul Kurtz, Leonard Linsky, Ruth Barcan Marcus, George Nakhnikian, Juha Sihvola, and J.J.C. Smart. You can see last year's list here.
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New Books in December
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Dignity, Rank, & Rights by Jeremy Waldron (Oxford University Press, 2012). The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche 4: Human, All Too Human II and Unpublished Fragments, trans. by Gary Handwerk (Stanford University Press, 2013). LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida by…
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Burk on “Law School Transparency”
Apparently they've jumped the shark. UPDATE: Oddly, the original post seems to have been pulled, though it was quite measured–a cache version is here. ANOTHER: A colleague elsewhere sends me this curious LST item: a "complaint" against Rutgers-Camden with the ABA alleging the school disseminated "false and misleading" information to prospective students. In fact, almost all…
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Senior offers declined
MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOVEMBER 28, 2012 For a long time, my basic policy was not to report senior offers that had been declined unless I had also reported the fact of the offer. At least, I thought that was my policy (one designed to save me time), but some readers point out that there…
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JD enrollments down, LLM enrollments up
Not surprising.
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Helicopter parents from hell…
…or daughter from hell. Hard to know, but a pretty grim situation.
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Philosophy Faculties, 1955-1956
During the 1955-56 academic year, the Professors of Philosophy at Harvard were Henry D. Aiken, Raphael Demos, W.V.O. Quine, Morton White, John Wild, and Donald Williams. There was one associate professor: Roderick Firth. The junior faculty were Hiram McClendon, Hao Wang and Paul Ziff. At Princeton, in the same year, the full professors were Carl…
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3AM’s “Best of 2012” Awards
Thanks to Richard Marshall, philosophers are well-represented.
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Where Big Law Firm Partners Really Come From
Here. The top 20 based on per capita partners at major law firms: 1. University of Chicago 2. Northwestern University 3. Harvard University 4. Columbia University 5. University of Virginia 6. University of Pennsylvania 7. New York University 8. Stanford University 9. Yale University 10. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 11. Georgetown University 12. Cornell University 13. Duke…
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How philosophy is done…
…in the Senior Common Room. (Thanks to George Allen for the pointer.) UPDATE: The original "Beyond the Fringe" version of the sketch. (Thanks to Steve Petersen for the pointer.)
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A new entry for the Philosophical Lexicon: “finagel”
finagel, v. To subject any scientific theory to the incredulity of common sense. More here. (Thanks to Jerry Dworkin for the definition.)
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If James Bond film titles were the titles of philosophy papers…
…courtesy of philosopher Alan White.
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Cutting-edge social science
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 20–SEE UPDATE "Please pass the salt": Download SALT research (Thanks to Richard Stith for the pointer.) UPDATE: Philosopher Lars Bergström (Stockholm) tells me that the author of this parody was actually the philosopher Herman Tennesen; Professor Bergström writes: It was given to me long ago by the author, Herman Tennesen…
I’ve only just heard this news and am sorry to read it. I was taught as an undergrad and postgrad…