December 2012
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More on Australia’s gun control success
From a scholarly journal. (Thanks to Phil Gasper for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: Russell J. Weintraub (1929-2012)
I am sorry to report the passing of my esteemed former colleague at the University of Texas, Russell Weintraub, probably the leading conflicts of law scholar of his generation and a member of the UT law faculty for many decades.
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Professor Baldwin’s reply to Professor Weisberg and the Mind Petition
Thomas Baldwin, the editor of Mind, has kindly sent the following reply in response to the petition organized by Jonathan Weisberg: Let me begin my response to Professor Weisberg’s petition by acknowledging that in November he contacted me to complain that messages he had sent to mind@york.ac.uk had not been answered. I immediately replied, apologising for…
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Mentoring pre-tenure women in philosophy
Information on next summer's workshop (at U Mass/Amherst) here.
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Seto’s ranking of law schools by big firm partners
Robert Anderson (Pepperdine) comments.
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How civilized countries (even those with conservative political leaders) respond to mass shootings
The case of Australia: Our 1996 reforms were precipitated by the Port Arthur massacre, the 13th mass shooting in 15 years in which five or more victims died in places like Hoddle and Queen Streets in Melbourne and Strathfield Plaza. The central provisions of the reforms were the ban on semi-automatic rifles and pump action…
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Camp from Penn to Rutgers
Elisabeth Camp (philosophy of mind and language, aesthetics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, an appointment which can only further solidify Rutgers's leading position in those areas. Penn has had a tough year, with Paul Guyer (Kant) moving to…
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“Fuck you, guns”
This is perhaps too polite for my taste, but it makes the point. UPDATE: And a good column on the child-killing lobby: After the Aurora killings, I did a few debates with advocates for the child-killing lobby—sorry, the gun lobby—and, without exception and with a mad vehemence, they told the same old lies: it doesn’t…
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On the Glock semi-automatic pistol…
…one of the weapons of mass murder. It should be illegal.
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Breaking Development: Actual Law Blog Makes the “Top 5” in Traffic Rankings…
…of blogs by law professors. The honor goes to a blog on patent law, no less! Meanwhile, the key to having a popular blog remains simple: be a right-wing crazy or blog about philosophy.
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Friday poem: “Even in the Sun”
Even in the Sun Even in the sun Raw sorrow subsists The bodies are arranged Trauma spreads The living wear the visage of the dead Now again no hope No laughter for a time In some places never more This is…
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Mass shooting of children and teachers in Connecticut
Many readers will by now have heard about the horrific mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. How people can recover from such ghastly events I do not know; I imagine many do not. Their sorrow and grief must be harrowing. What we could do, were the U.S. civilized, is take serious remedial and preventive…
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Powerpoint
It would appear Spiros does not care for it.
“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”