February 2014
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New Books in February
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Understanding Ethics, 3rd edition by Torbjorn Tannsjo (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). A World Without Why by Raymond Geuss (Princeton University Press, 2014).
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In addition to Title IX action, Northwestern student has filed a lawsuit against Peter Ludlow personally in state court
There is a brief account here, I have not yet seen a complaint in this matter. UPDATE: A bit more information here. ANOTHER: A link to the Illinois Gender Violence Act, which the prior story describes as (at least part of) the student's basis for a cause of action against Ludlow. AND ANOTHER: The Northwestern…
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New York Times v. Sullivan fifty years later
What do you think? I'm sure everyone would have their preferred wording, but I assume everyone can locate their own view in one of the three options below, so don't get hung up on the precise wording–choose the option closest to your view of the case and its legacy. (The second and third options got chopped: the…
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O’Callaghan from Rice to Wash U/St. Louis
Casey O'Callaghan (philosophy of mind, metaphysics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy and the Program in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology at Washington University, St. Louis. This will further consolidate Wash U's status as one of the two or three best programs in philosophy of cognitive science in the…
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Why study philosophy?
An interview with philosopher and novelist Rebecca Goldstein.
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Chalmers & Clark interviewed at…
…New Philosopher. (Thanks to Dirk Felleman for the pointer.)
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Oxford philosopher accused of harassing behavior…
…and the philosophy graduate student who was its target ended up committing suicide after a number of difficult personal events, though it is hard to tell from this account (bear in mind it is The Daily Mail) what role, if any, the harassment played in the horribly tragic outcome. In this case, the philosopher, Jeffrey Ketland, was,…
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Another law school offering major tuition incentives to residents in its part of the country
Tulsa. I am told that maintaining "good standing" for purposes of these scholarships simply means "not failing out"! So it is not some higher standard that poses a risk of losing the scholarship.
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Sexual harassment in philosophy, once again
An interesting post by philosopher Heidi Lockwood.
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Walton to visit at Stanford in Spring Quarter for three years
Kendall Walton, a leading figure in philosophy of art who is currently emeritus at Michigan, will be the Bonsall Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University for the Spring quarters of 2015, 2016, and 2017.
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“Thinking the unthinkable”
A discussion that includes philosophers Mark Rowlands (Miami) and Simon Saunders (Oxford), among others.
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Transferring from a foreign to a North American PhD program as an advanced student
A student in a PhD program in Europe, who has completed a BA (three years) and MA (two years), and is now in the third year of a PhD program and in his/her mid-20s writes: Being dissatisfied with my program, I am looking for ways to transfer my Ph.D. abroad or even to start a…
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Where the NLJ 250 firms hire
Blog Emperor Caron reports on the brand new listing. Some shuffling about, but basically the same as in prior years (Columbia, Harvard, Chicago, Penn almost always in the top five; NYU, Northwestern almost always in the top six; Stanford, Cornell, Duke, Berkeley almost always in the top ten; etc.). Yale's typically weak performance is due to…
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“The Truth is Terrible”–hopefully final version…
…or penultimate until copy-editing. A few significant revisions to this version in light of excellent feedback received at UC Riverside a few weeks ago.
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that