November 2013
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Ordinary Language Philosophy on the BBC
Here. (Thanks to Dirk Felleman for the pointer.)
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Memorial for Ned McClennen
Ben Bradley (Syracuse) asked me to share this: Memorial Gathering for Ned McClennen August 1936- November 2013 to recall & celebrate his life, friends, family & work Saturday, November 23, 2013 at his home 5 Norwood Drive Albany NY 12204 From 2:30 to (no later than) 4:00 Refreshments will be served after the memorial through…
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30% of college admissions officials downgraded an applicant’s file…
…based on his or her on-line presence, including tweets. (Earlier foray into the topic.) Whether this generalizes beyond the case of college admissions is an unknown.
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Many thanks to Thomas Nadelhoffer…
…for guest-blogging over the last week. You can see his contributions here.
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Law & Philosophy Fellowship at Chicago for 2014-15
MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 26, 2013 Here's this year's ad. Note that, as with last year, these Fellowships are now open to more advanced faculty who would like to combine it with a sabbatical. This year's Fellow is Sarah Conly from Bowdoin. Last year's Fellow was Justin Coates, now in a tenure-track job at…
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Lyon Named Dean Of Valparaiso
Valparaiso University has named Andrea Lyon as its new law school dean. Lyon, a clinical professor and associate dean at DePaul Law, will take over in June 2014. She succeeds Dean Jay Conison who left to helm Charlotte Law School.
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Meat Eating and the Moral Burden of Proof
For starters, this will be my final post here at Leiter Reports (at least this time around). Thanks again to Brian for the opportunity to stir the pot a bit. Thanks as well to the readers who have participated in the discussion threads (especially the threads about open access philosophy). For my last hurrah, I…
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Soldiers can be morally culpable for fighting in unjust wars
The Pentagon, as I understand it, is not going to hire Jeff McMahan (Rutgers).
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Coetzee on universities and the humanities in the neoliberal world
The famed writer makes a number of interesting points; an excerpt: All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national economies, universities have been coming under pressure to turn themselves into training schools equipping young people with the skills required…
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A new poll: the ten best faculties in constitutional law and theory
We last did this four years ago, so here's a new one, listing 21 faculties that might have some claim on being in the "top ten" (no doubt I omitted some faculties better than some of those listed, but we're aiming only for a "top ten" list as the outcome). Please don't participate unless you…
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Vantage Points and The Trolley Problem
In a recent comment on the post about Greene’s work on moral psychology and moral philosophy, Seth Edenbaum made a passing remark about trolley problems and the standpoint of victims. Since I have a working draft of a paper that hits upon this issue (in some sense at least), I thought it might be suitable…
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Michigan’s Undergraduate Career Services Center compiles a useful list of testimonials by students happy to have gone to law school…
…and who went to a wide variety of law schools. Good to have a little reality-check on the insane cyber-ranting by individuals, many of whom are no doubt victims of circumstances and genuinely aggrieved, but who seem tragically confused about the causes of their suffering.
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Funding Strategies and Open Acess
In an earlier post, I made a plea for suggestions and perhaps assistance when it comes to a new open access, online journal I am hoping to launch sometime next year (see here). I got some helpful feedback and some generous offers of assistance. For that, I am thankful. Now, I would like to discuss…
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…