November 2013
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Lying to Nazis, during and after the War
Jerry Dworkin comments.
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More on the decline in LSAT takers and law school finances…
…at The National Law Journal, with comments from co-blogger Dan Filler.
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Live like a Stoic!
At least next week!
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“The Calibrated Cosmos”
An interesting essay for a general audience by Tim Maudlin (NYU). (Thanks to Daniel Fogal for the pointer.)
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And still more signs of the times…
…in the demand for legal services.
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Open-access textbooks
Here's one in logic, that will be familiar to many readers.
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Hawthorne from Oxford to USC in 2015
John Hawthorne, Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University, who had last year moved his part-time appointment to the University of Southern California, has now acccepted a full-time position in the Department of Philosophy there, effective September 2015. That's a rather significant hire for USC, and will likely put the department solidly in the U.S.…
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Big reduction in sticker price tuition at Ohio Northern
Another sign of the times. ADDENDUM: And another approach: freezing tuition at St. Thomas in Minnesota.
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Philosopher biographies for the holidays?
A former law student of mine writes: As gift-giving season comes around I find myself looking for a good biography of a philosopher to give a friend. When I saw the Christian Science Monitor quote that appears in the Amazon description of Ray Monk's Wittgenstein book ("Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand.…
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Autoadmit Redux: Cyber-misogyny and racism…
…are (alas) alive and well. (This catalogue of abuse even features as one of the perpetrators one of the notorious Campos trolls.)
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Houston’s Tamler Sommers blogging…
…at Flickers of Freedom.
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Interfolio costs
A job seeker writes: I hope that you can find the time in the coming days to blog about the current state of the academic job market vis-a-vis the exorbitant rates that interfolio charges for uploading letters vs emailing them. This problem would seem to have a rather easy solution though a consensus on the…
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Top ten faculties in constitutional law and theory, 2013
So with 170 votes cast , here are the top ten faculties (in parentheses, I note first the number of faculty listed, and then the number of votes separating the school from the one ahead of it–some of the differences are very small): 1. Yale University (15 faculty) 2. Harvard University (23 faculty, 39 votes) 3. New…
Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…