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Nietzsche’s Ecce homo, Notebooks and Letters: 1888-1889. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. ©2023 Daniel Fidel Ferrer. All rights reserved. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…
I am reading 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 with mixed feelings. It is, in various ways, moderate and careful, and it certainly…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that
For what it’s worth, I agree. I have, with some trepidation, given it a bunch of my papers and asked…
Looking at some of the AI-amplified cranks on philpeople, it is hard to agree with the assessment of this article.…
Perhaps a useful distinction here is between replacing philosophers and changing the conditions under which philosophical work gets done. LLMs…
IHE reports that the Governor is proposing increased funding (contingent on tuition freezes). I'd be curious to hear from readers "on the ground" at UC and Cal State campuses how things are in terms of finances.
I attended a UC about ten years ago and I continue to coach there. I also attend a graduate program at a Cal State, so my perspective is the anecdotal consensus I get from the students I coach, teach, and study with.
Horror stories of students being forced to take a completely different major because they couldn't get classes were rare when I was an undergraduate, isolated "friends of friends." But that is definitely no longer the case. I regularly hear these types of stories now. Of course a less impacted major like philosophy will attract more of these cases, but the message is fairly clear on both campuses: decide your major early, take summer (and now short winter) term classes, and don't be surprised if you stay a fifth year. It seems worse at the Cal States, but that's just based on the comparison of two schools.
Here is Chris Newfield's take on the governor's proposed budget for UC. The takeaway is that even with the 5% increase in funding, the state's portion of the UC budget is still 14% below where it was in 2007-08.
The link did not come through in the previous comment. Newfield's analysis of the governor's budget for UC is here:
http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2014/01/austerity-premises-refuted-governors.html
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