March 2014
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Caie, Gelber from Syracuse to Pitt
Michael Caie (philosophical logic, philosophy of language, formal epistemology) and Jessica Gelber (ancient Greek and Roman philosophy), both Assistant Professors of Philosophy at Syracuse University have accepted tenure-track offers from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. I usually do not post lateral junior movements, but Caie and Gelber are both advanced junior…
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Indian Philosophy
The blog.
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Buffalo offers retirement incentives to faculty over 55…
…and eight accept, bringing the size of the full-time faculty from 48 down to 40. The school is also shrinking its class size slightly. Seems like sensible responses to the current economic climate for legal education.
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The “life sentence” of the future (when life might be much longer!)
Philosophers discuss.
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On jury service and a university education
Jonathan Wolff (UCL) comments.
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Martin from Penn to Claremont McKenna
Adrienne Martin (moral & political philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennslyvania has accepted appointment to the Shankar Professorship of Philosophy, Politics & Economics at Claremont McKenna College, effective fall 2014. She asked me to share that she is "sad to leave behind one completely awesome job, but excited to be moving to…
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Chopra on the Doniger case in India
Philosopher Samir Chopra (Brooklyn/CUNY) has a rather lengthy essay about the controversy here.
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And some additional advice for prospectives considering PhD programs outside North America
Charles Pigden (Otago) writes: Re your post from Meghan Sullivan. Graduate students contemplating a thesis only PhD in either Britain, Continental Europe or Australasia should presumably be asking a slightly different set of questions. 1) You are likely to be heavily dependent on your supervisors. Presumably you are interested in them because of their eminence the…
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The sexual harassment crisis in philosophy, the poll about student disruption of teaching and the sometimes toxic cyber-environment in which these issues are discussed
[This is a revised, and I hope more constructive, version of what I posted about ten days ago, edited down for relevance. I am grateful to a number of philosophers and students for feedback on these issues.] There is a sea change afoot in professional philosophy in the Anglophone world, and it is one that is long overdue: sexual…
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ABA votes to retain tenure (good) and require 6 hours of experiential learning of ALL students (bad)
Blog Emperor Caron has the details. Fortunately, the insane proposal for 15 hours of so-called "experiential" learning was defeated. ADDENDUM: As a couple of readers noted, I have in the past expressed the view that tenure need not be an accreditation requirement, which is still my view. But given some of the administrative mischief afoot,…
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Heidegger’s anti-semitism
The newest evidence. (Thanks to Michael Weisberg for the pointer.)
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February LSAT takers up very slightly from last year
A bit more than 1%. A first indication that applications and enrollments may be about to level off in the next year or so.
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In Memoriam: Eddie Ohlbaum
Temple University Law Professor Edward Ohlbaum passed away last week. He had been on the Temple faculty since 1985. He was 64.
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U of Florida Dean Search Fails
Sounds like an ordeal, and it certainly won't be easier next year to fill the position given the start and now the finish to this year's.
Nietzsche’s Ecce homo, Notebooks and Letters: 1888-1889. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. ©2023 Daniel Fidel Ferrer. All rights reserved. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs…