March 2013
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Judge Denies Widener Motion To Dismiss In Consumer Fraud Suit
Last week, Federal Judge William Walls (District of N.J.) denied Widener University School of Law's motion to dismiss in a case alleging that the law school provided misleading and incomplete graduate employment rates in violation of New Jersey and Delaware Consumer Fraud Acts. The opinion is here. H/T ABA Journal
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Collective Creativity on Facebook (Kukla)
There is something kind of beautiful happening on Facebook right now, as people riff on an image honoring the goal of marriage equality on the day SCOTUS hears opening arguments. This kind of super-fast, bottom-up, collective creativity is one of the most interesting and delightful things enabled by the Internet, I think. If you haven't…
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William Lycan elected Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
More information here.
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Honderich in The Guardian
Thanks to philosopher Phil Gasper for calling my attention to this profile, which is both interesting, but also a bit surprising: Honderich may be in for further trouble with his revised edition of the Oxford Companion to Philosophy. He's typically downbeat about his part in the original project. "I think I was only asked because…
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Standen Named Dean of Northern Kentucky
Professor Jeffrey Standen, who currently serves as a professor and associate dean of faculty at Willamette Law, has been named the new dean at Northern Kentucky University law school.
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A one-year, on-line BA?
A 50-year-old professional plans to try it. And he's got some philosophy offerings in there! (Thanks to Lee McIntyre for the pointer.)
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Call for Nominations: Distinguished Woman Philosopher 2013 (Kukla)
Each year the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy comes together to honor a woman philosopher whose contributions to the support of women in philosophy and to philosophy itself are outstanding and merit special recognition. A panel and reception celebrating the honoree's accomplishments will be organized for the Eastern Division meeting of…
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Emergence of the Global South
Interesting facts courtesy of historian Juan Cole (Michigan).
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“First Things” on “Why Tolerate Religion?”
First Things is a conservative Catholic intellectual magazine. An unsigned editorial in the April 2013 issue opines that, A recent book by…Brian Leiter outlines what may well become the theoretical consensus used to reinterpret the First Amendment. "There is no principled reason," he writes in Why Tolerate Religion?, "for legal or constitutional regimes to single…
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Hamilton Named Dean of UNLV
Professor Daniel Hamilton, the associate dean for faculty development at the University of Illinois College of Law, has been named the new dean of the University of Nevada Las Vegas law school. Hamilton has a JD from George Washington and a Ph.D in history from Harvard. As Al Brophy notes over at the Faculty Lounge,…
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Readings by Women for Intro Classes (Kukla)
Here is a nascent useful wiki. As far as I can tell no one is vetting this to assess how suited all of these readings actually are for intro classes. (Color me dubious about some of them.) And for my part, I wish it were a broader database that included canon-stretching readings of ALL sorts…
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Spam! (Kukla)
Thomas Nadelhoffer just pointed me towards a spam folder whose filter was overzealously censoring many of you, including me. I have now posted comments that were hanging around in there. Many apologies to those of you who have been wondering why your comments were not showing up.
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…