October 2013
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New Books in October
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Death & the Afterlife by Samuel Scheffler, edited by Niko Kolodny (Oxford University Press, 2013) [this volume also includes responses to Scheffler's Tanner Lectures by Harry Frankfurt, Kolodny, Seana Shiffrin, and Susan Wolf]. Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy by G.A.…
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Another 10%+ decline in LSAT takers compared to last year
Blog Emperor Caron has links to the latest news. (He also includes links to a chart about which majors do best on the LSAT–because they lump Philosophy with Theology, I'm sure that depresses the result for Philosophy majors, since those two majors are VERY different.) [UPDATE: Professor Filler's post and mine crossed paths in cyber-time!] A couple…
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LSAC Data Points To Drop In Law School Applicants
LSAC reports that the number of people who sat for the October 2013 LSAT s was down 10.9% compared to October 2012. The number of first time takers was down roughly 13% from last October. This is consistent with the decline in attendance at LSAC sponsored law school fairs – ranging from a dip of…
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In Memoriam: Arthur C. Danto (1924-2013)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 26–UPDATED During his long career at Columbia University, Professor Danto wrote very widely, including well-known books and articles on philosophy of action, philosophy of history, Nietzsche, and Sartre, though he became best-known outside the academy for his work in aesthetics and art criticism, including a long stint as the art…
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Need-based application fee waivers–not all schools provide them!
A student currently in an MA program writes: I am writing to you at the suggestion of several professors of philosophy, who thought this might deserve the attention of the greater philosophical community. I am in the process of applying to graduate schools in philosophy for Fall 2014 (in the United States and Canada). I am shocked…
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CUNY’s constitutionally dubious new proposed “policy on expressive activity”
A colleague at CUNY has sent to me the statement by the faculty union President, Barbara Bowen: The CUNY Administration has developed a draft “Policy on Expressive Activity,” to be considered for adoption sometime after January 1 by the CUNY Board of Trustees. You can read it here. The draft policy proposes severe limitations on how the…
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More on New England Law School…
…this time from the Boston Business Journal: up to 20 faculty may receive buy-out offers, and the Dean will take a 25% pay cut (but still earn over 600K, which is more than almost all of the Deans of the richest law schools in the country make). .
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Hegel Bagel, Plato’s Potatoes…
…and more philosophy food. (Thanks to Jerry Dworkin for the pointer.)
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Reference style and manuscript review
A reader writes: I'm wondering if you could have a discussion for your website about manuscript referencing styles. Some journals, mostly European-based, require in-text citation referencing. My own work is usually written in the style typically seen in the top journals in my subfield (which involve the use of footnotes or endnotes), which happen to…
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Another random website cooks up another off-kilter ranking…
…and while this new one is not as off-kilter as the absurd National Jurist effort noted earlier this year, it is still ill-conceived and worthless. Most remarkably, it includes a factor that U.S. News correctly discarded years ago: namely, median starting salaries without any adjustment for differences in cost-of-living. What that means is: any schools whose graduates…
I’m a software engineer who works at “AI adjacent” startups, and I think this article is a bit dramatic, but…