September 2013
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A cautionary tale for those needing a Green Card to work in the U.S.
This horrifying story comes from philosopher Darren Hudson Hick, now a VAP at Texas Tech: I started at Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, PA) as a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy specializing in aesthetics in the fall of 2011, having done three years of prior teaching elsewhere as a VAP. In June of last year, I met with the…
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All about law school Deans…
…courtesy of Mississippi College School of Law Dean Rosenblatt: who are the Deans, how long have they served, etc.
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A call for humanitarian intervention…
…in the United States.
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Lots of aesthetics blogging…
…including guest posts by Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA) and Allan Hazlett (Edinburgh), and interviews with Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins (British Columbia) and Keith Lehrer (Arizona/Miami).
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Philosopher Lynch (U Conn) enters the legal fray on NSA spying
Interesting story here.
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ABA Task Force Calls For Changes to Legal Ed and the Profession
The ABA's Task force on the Future of Legal Edcuation issued a draft report last Friday. It's here. In its call for states to authorize limited legal practice by non-lawyers, the committee may have gone beyond its charge. But it's interesting reading.
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Gender (or other) quotas for entering PhD classes: what do we really know about their effects?
A reader writes: In my department's recent annual graduate student meeting, one colleague brought up the idea that our department should strive to achieve gender balance for each incoming class. There were a lot of armchair speculations about the positive and negative effects of imposing such an 'affirmative action' policy, but very little empirical evidence…
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Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law, volume 2…
…is now out, with new essays by Stephen Perry, Barbara Baum Levenbook, Matthew Kramer, Bruno Celano, Michael Giudice, R.A. Duff, C.L. Ten, Hanoch Sheinman, and Luis Duarte D'Almeida. The volumes covers topics in general jurisprudence, as well as the philosophy of criminal law, international law, and contracts, among other topics. Perry's important paper has already…
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The path to publication
David Faraci, a young philosopher who is a VAP at North Carolina, has set up what promises to be a useful survey.
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Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law, volume 2…
…is now out, with new essays by Stephen Perry, Barbara Baum Levenbook, Matthew Kramer, Bruno Celano, Michael Giudice, R.A. Duff, C.L. Ten, Hanoch Sheinman, and Luis Duarte D'Almeida. The volumes covers topics in general jurisprudence, as well as the philosophy of criminal law, international law, and contracts, among other topics. Perry's important paper has already…
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More on the David Guth case (the Kansas professor who blasted the NRA in a tweet)
Here. As usual, Mr. Wilson is the most sober voice out there on this matter.
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Philosophy student wins The Nation’s essay contest
He's Jim Nichols, a student at Georgia State University. Nice essay!
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Journalism professor lashes out (on Twitter) at NRA…
…and his school, the University of Kansas, does not exactly rise to his defense. (His fuller statement at his blog was much more substantial than the tweet, needless to say.) (Note: I'm putting this under the "academic freedom" category, but without knowing more about Professor Guth's areas of expertise, it's not clear to me this…
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What moods are about
Amy Kind (Claremont-McKenna) and Angela Mendolovici (Western Ontario) discuss on Philosophy TV.
Nobody uses the NS equations to find their *real actual solutions* in engineering problems. They use approximations. The math question…