September 2013
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DC-area Law School Enrollments
Lots of competition (and lots of financial aid), yet Georgetown's enrollment is down, George Washington's up (at least from last year), and numerical credentials in flux at various places.
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“Death of an adjunct” (MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–SEE UPDATE)
Several readers have sent this appalling story. UPDATE: Unsurprisingly, Dusquesne begs to differ with the account by Mr. Kovalik: Dear Colleagues, Yesterday an op-ed piece appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, purporting to describe certain circumstances preceding the death of adjunct instructor, Margaret Mary Vojtko. This piece was authored by Daniel Kovalik, a United Steelworkers lawyer,…
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Academic freedom update at Oregon…
…from Corey Robin (Brooklyn/CUNY).
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Which fields are smart, which good-looking, and which a bit of both?
Philosophy is, of course, both. (Thanks to Simine Vazire for the pointer.)
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“Bohemian Rhapsody” meets string theory
Ths charming video is making the rounds on Facebook.
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Submit your drawings of philosophers
This is a fun site, via Elena Spitzer, a PhD student at Wisconsin.
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“What not to read” if you’re a conservative Republican
This is pretty funny (not sure how I landed between A. Dworkin and MacKinnon! [UPDATE: it's organized by first name, I missed that]): Irritus college has received several requests for lists of banned books so that a new student browsing a bookstore other than our college bookstore does not inadvertently purchase a book that would…
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First outsourcing…now “onshoring”?
Bill Henderson (Indiana) comments.
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Thoughts on the new JFP/Phil Jobs site?
One job seeker writes: I thought you might be interested in a posting on the effects of decentralization of job advertising on both job seekers and letter writers. Personally, I hate it. I most certainly appreciate that I no longer have to pay to see ads, but in terms of being able to plan your…
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Why study philosophy? UM-St. Louis edition!
A nice document, courtesy of Eric Wiland at UMSL, which is, of course, well-known for their excellent terminal MA program.
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Anthologizing a co-authored paper in one of the author’s volumes
A reader writes: I have a written a number of papers with a particular philosopher, who has now included one of our papers in a volume of his essays on a particular subject within our AOS. My co-author did not contact me before asking and being granted permission to publish our paper in his volume.…
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Supreme Court Clerkships by Law School: 2003 through 2013 Terms
Here. UPDATE: Minnesota, in fact, had 2 Supreme Court clerks during this time, so makes the top 20 on both the "per capita" and the total clerks listing–that revision will be made shortly.
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In defense of philosophy
Sydney's Paul Redding–target of a recent mindless attack by an Australian politician–defends the discipline; an excerpt: As a first, crude attempt, I’ll describe philosophical work as work with and on "concepts". Philosophers are concerned with concepts in the same rigorous sort of way that, say, a pathologist is concerned with diseases, or a mathematician with…
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Obama’s terrible idea for “rating” colleges
Philosopher John Armstrong (Southern Virginia University) takes it apart. I hope this analysis has an impact on the outcome. It ought to!
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Susan Mendus did not like “Why Tolerate Religion?”
I've been fortunate that reviews, even in popular media, have generally been favorable , and that the most unfavorable reviews have been confined to right-wing rags, which hardly merit a response. But a misleading review in Political Theory by Mendus, a political theorist now emerita at the University of York, does merit a response, which I'll put below…
Nobody uses the NS equations to find their *real actual solutions* in engineering problems. They use approximations. The math question…