February 2013
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On Bradley Manning
He is an honorable person.
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Waters from Minnesota to Calgary
C. Kenneth Waters, a leading figure in philosophy of biology at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis-St. Paul, has accepted a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary (effective July 2014), a department which already boasts two philosophers of biology, Marc Ereschefsky and Megan Delehanty. This is likely to…
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Co-Authorship in Philosophy
A reader writes with a useful question: What are the criteria for co-authorship in philosophy? What level of contribution to a philosophy paper merits being named co-author,and what level of contribution do you assume named authors on philosophical papers to have made?
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New Books in February
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Presocratics & Plato: Festschrift at Delphi in Honor of Charles Kahn edited by Richard Patterson et al. (Parmenides Publishing, 2012). Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates edited by Nikola J.L.L. Pedersen & Cory D. Wright (Oxford University Press, 2013). Moral Perception by Robert Audi (Princeton…
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Braver from Hiram College to South Florida
Lee Braver (19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy, metaphysics, Wittgenstein), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hiram College, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. South Florida has had a strong commitment to history of philosophy, including the post-Kantian Continental traditions.
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Georgetown’s Report on the State of the Legal Market for 2013
Not good news (not surprising), and definitely worth reading. It comes pretty squarely down in favor of Bill Henderson's longstanding hypothesis that the changes afoot are structural not cyclical.
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Society for Philosophy & Psychology’s 2013 Stanton Prize…
…has been awarded to Edouard Machery in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. You can see a list of past winners here. (Thanks to John Doris for the information.)
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Green on Dworkin
Another memorial for Ronald Dworkin, including an interesting observation by Leslie Green: Leslie Green, professor of the philosophy of law at Oxford, described Professor Dworkin as "one of the most important legal thinkers of our time", who "achieved this by his brilliance, originality and, especially, his unparalleled fearlessness in yoking together moral views that are…
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Contemplating the future of humankind
An article about the work of philosopher Nick Bostrom (Oxford) and colleagues. (Thanks to Daniel Fogal for the pointer.)
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Holmes to Become Dean of LaVerne
Gilbert Holmes, professor at (and former dean of) the University of Baltimore School of Law, has been named the new dean of the University of LaVerne College of Law, starting this summer.
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J.D. Trout (Loyola/Chicago) Chosen as Romanell-Phi Betta Kappa Lecturer for 2012-13
More information here. UPDATE: I just realized I posted about this over a year ago, but since I got an e-mail about the lectures for 2013 that are coming up, no harm in reposting the information.
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Coming this summer: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Free on-line with Munich's Hannes Leitgeb and Stephan Hartmann.
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Sokal-style hoax pulled in theology
The amusing details here. (Thanks to Tom Carson for the pointer.)
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii