February 2014
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Statement from Rutgers Philosophy Department regarding the allegations against Ludlow
I have been asked to post the following on behalf of the Rutgers Department: Rutgers University and the Department of Philosophy learned of the allegations against Peter Ludlow on Monday February 10. The University and Philosophy Department take these allegations extremely seriously. The university administration is actively looking into the matter.
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Why was the Colorado report made public?
I am now told (by a reliable source) that an "open records" act request was made for the Colorado report, and that is why the university decided to release it "officially" (it was going to become public anyway, in other words). It is not hard to imagine why, in a department with climate problems, there would be…
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And some philosophers think aesthetic judgments are not subjective!
The 1964 reaction to The Beatles. Just to be clear, I enjoy the Beatles and I don't think any of these folks are wrong (or right).
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What happens when you have the same name as an international drug dealer?
Philosopher Stephen Law found out. (Thanks to Eric Mathison for the pointer.)
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Northwestern student files lawsuit against university, claiming it failed to act after she was sexually assaulted by a philosophy professor
There are accounts here and here (sent by numerous readers); an excerpt: A Medill junior is suing Northwestern, alleging the school failed to act after she filed a sexual assault complaint against a professor two years ago. The lawsuit claims the University handled the allegations with “deliberate indifference and retaliation,” according to a copy of the…
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Criticisms of the Site Committee Report on Colorado
UPDATE: "Jane Brownstein" confesses in the comments that she is using a pseudonym and that she had misled me. I apologize to readers, but I usually do assume people are who they say they are when they write to me. While other readers shared some of these concerns, they did not want to be credited…
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A dozen years out, most law school graduates glad they went
Once again, we may be certain that actual evidence will have no effect on cyber-ranting, but it hopefully will have an effect on rational observers; among the preliminary results: Graduates of the top 10 law schools who worked full-time earned median pay that was $73,500 more per year than graduates of Tier 4 schools. And among…
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Since Republicans can no longer win elections fairly…
…they keep coming up with new ways to suppress the vote.
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Called out, once again, for being too nice…
…drats. (Spiros is, alas, right that the major victims of the "pluralism" scam are students, who get suckered into PhD programs that probably shouldn't exist.)
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Being an “adjunct” rather than a VAP: a liability going forward on the job market?
A recent PhD writes: This is the time of year when those of us on the job market who didn't get tenure track offers start to see ads for VAP positions. Like many other graduate students and early career professors, I am married and have children. My children are very well-settled regarding their respective schools and…
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In Memoriam: Andrew Taslitz
I'm very sad to report that Professor Andrew Eric Taslitz – Taz – of American University (where he moved in 2012 after a long career at Howard University) passed away this weekend after a fight with cancer. He was 57 years old.
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Harry Arthurs (Osgoode) on the impossibility of producing “practice-ready” lawyers
Arthurs, former Dean of Osgoode and one of Canada's most eminent legal scholars, gives a talk well worth watching by anyone genuinely interested in what reform of legal education can and cannot do. UPDATE: Steve Diamond (Santa Clara) comments, and also provides a link to the manuscript version of the talk.
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Simkovic & McIntyre review of Tamanaha
I'ts now out. In some ways, this is now all ancient history, given that we appear to have arrived at a new equilibrium, as I've noted before.
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Industry thugs pursuing academics: a problem for social epistemology
The case of Tyrone Hayes, a Berkeley biologist persecuted by a manufacturer of dangerous agricultural pesticides.
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that