February 2014
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A survey for academics and practitioners in the transactional/business law areas
Eric Talley (Berkeley) asked me to share this; it might shed some light on whether law schools are really equipped to offer the "experiential" learning that some are trying to mandate ill-advisedly. ============================== To: Practitioners and Educators in Transactional/Business Law From: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) UC Berkeley School of Law…
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A statement from U of Colorado female faculty in the Philosophy Department
Here; I would highlight one bit in particular: We faculty women strongly believe that none of our currently untenured male colleagues or current male graduate students has engaged in sexual misconduct (nor, indeed, have most of our tenured colleagues). UPDATE: A related article from a Boulder newspaper. I have heard multiple reports about what's going…
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Nicholas Kristof on academics
This is funny.
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Social epistemology case studies: the Kitty Genovese myth
Interesting. Many readers will be too young to remember Abe "I'm writing as bad as I can" Rosenthal, a classic product of New York Times in-breeding, who rose to be editor and then brainless and barely literate columnist. He combined the insight of David Brooks with the literary talent of Thomas Friedman!
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UCLA Law’s student body now only about 3% African-American
Students have made a video about the experience; there is also a thoughtful response from Dean Moran at the end of the linked article.
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In Memoriam: Israel Scheffler (1923-2014)
A longtime member of the Harvard faculty, Professor Scheffler passed away yesterday. He was well-known for his contributions to the philosophy of science and the philosophy of education. His Harvard page has some additional information. I will link to memorial notices as they appear. UPDATE: A memorial notice from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Last week’s discussion of the Site Visit Committee report: a poll
Since last week's post highlighting some criticisms of the Site Visit Committee's report about Colorado, I have been struck by the divergent reactions, both in comments, in e-mail, on Facebook, and on some other blogs. Some readers appeared to think the criticisms never should have been aired at all; others thought it was salutary to…
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Philosopher videos: Michael Forster
A charming piece on my colleague and friend Michael Forster, courtesy of the German Humboldt Foundation. (For background, see here.)
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More price competition between law schools
This time in and around Kansas City.
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Missing Platonic Dialogue found: “On Dirt”
Details here. (Thanks to Phillip Horky for the pointer.)
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Hopkins from Sheffield to NYU
Robert Hopkins (aesthetics, philosophy of mind, also Nietzsche), who had been vistiing at New York University from the University of Sheffield, has now officially accepted a permanent post there. That will make NYU just one of a handful of top departments with a senior scholar working in aesthetics.
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New preface to the forthcoming paperback edition of…
…Why Tolerate Religion? (Princeton University press, cloth edition 2013, paper edition forthcoming 2014).
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New preface to the forthcoming paperback edition of…
…Why Tolerate Religion? (Princeton University press, cloth edition 2013, paper edition forthcoming 2014).
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If you thought nothing stupider could possibly be written about the gender problems in professional philosophy…
…you were wrong. As far as I know, this is the only document in existence that concludes that Linda Alcoff's objections to the PGR (which are, indeed, utterly specious and self-serving!) shouldn't be taken seroiusly because I hate Republicans. Baudelaire: "anywhere out of this world."
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that