December 2012
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H.L.A. Hart Interviewed
Links and more information here.
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Professorial rank and responsibilities in a philosophy department
Curious set of questions here. I've never heard of a department in which the assistant professors are supposed to assist the full professors!
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Van Cleave Named Dean at Golden Gate
Rachel Van Cleave, the current interim dean at Golden Gate University School of Law, has now been named the school's permanent dean.
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H.L.A. Hart Interviewed
Hart, along with Hans Kelsen, was one of the two great figures in legal philosophy of the past century. This wide-ranging interview a few years before his death covers the personal, professional, and intellectual. The quality of the audio is uneven, and a transcript is forthcoming. OUP has released the audio to mark the publication…
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“Philosophical Argument”
(Thanks to Jerry Dworkin for the photo and the title.)
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Philosophers win major European Research Council grants
The philosophers and their projects are: Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) for a project on "Epistemic Utility Theory: Foundations and Applications" (nearly a million euros); and Robbie Williams (Leeds) for a project on "The Nature of Representation" (nearly 1.5 million euros). Both projects are funded for five years and will involve opportunities for postdocs and doctoral students.
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More turmoil at NYU
Details and links here.
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NYU Arts & Sciences Faculty Threatening “No Confidence” Vote in NYU President Sexton
Story here. There is a curious quote from Martin Lipton, head of the NYU Board of Trustees (and a longtime backer of Sexton since he was Dean of the law school) lauding him as a recognized "international leader" in higher education. That's a bit of hyperbole worthy of Sexton! In my travels overseas, I've never…
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22% Decline in Total Applicants to Law Schools in November 2012…
…compared to November 2011. Not a surprise, given the decline in first-time LSAT takers already noted. A CORRECTION: Actually, the figures on LSAT takers were from 2011-12. In fact, the figures for this year are somewhat better (though pointing towards another significant decline in total applicants, consistent with the November figures): In June and October…
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Reading philosophy books in public
One must be careful. Regarding the cover of my recent book, my 10-year-old asked, "Might some people be offended?" Indeed, though the answer given is much friendlier to religion than the title might suggest.
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Arizona to Permit 3L’s to Sit For State Bar
This new ruling allowing third year students to sit for the bar – on an experimental basis – may better facilitate the ability of graduates to hit the ground running. What it will do for their mental health is an entirely different matter. I recall that when I was in law school, Georgia permitted 3L's to sit…
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An April Fool’s joke in the Journal of Philosophy?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–IN COMMENTS, TAMAR GENDLER SUGGESTS POSTING OTHER EXAMPLES OF PARODIES AND JOKE ARTICLES FROM PHILOSOPHY JOURNALS It seems so! As Alex Rosenberg (Duke) wrote to me, "'Stoppism', by one Myrtle Willoughby…is about whether local stops and express stops exist owing to local trains and express trains or not, and the author…
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Now that Marx is back, it’s time for some class warfare…
…directed at the actual dominant class. Actor Ed Asner narrates; it's nicely done and sums up the Reagan era in the U.S., in which we still live, rather well.
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Paul Krugman re-discovers Marx
What took him so long? Krugman has been such a relief to those of us in the United States, because the public culture is so bereft of critical perspective, but the fact remains that he's an apologist for the capitalist system, just not as bonkers as some of the others. I quote from his recent…
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Harold Koh Returns to Yale
According to new reports. Harold Koh will be returning to the Yale Law faculty next month, after four years of experiential legal education.
“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”