April 2014
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New Books in April
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books in April: Analytic Philosophy in America (and Other Historical and Contemporary Essays) by Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2014). The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1: The Founding Giants by Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2014). Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by
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“Legal Realisms, Old and New”
This was the 2012 Seegers Lecture in Jurisprudence at Valparaiso, now on-line courtesy of their Law Review.
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Easwaran from USC to Texas A&M
Kenney Easwaran (formal epistemology, logic, philosophy of mathematics), who was recently tenured in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. It's been a big year for Philosophy at Texas A&M, especially in formal philosophy. (Thanks to Jose Bermudez
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In Memoriam: James Higginbotham (1941-2014)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 25–VARIOUS UPDATES A leading scholar working at the intersection of philosophy of language and linguistics, Professor Higginbotham taught for over forty years at Columbia, MIT, Oxford, and for more than a decade until his death, at the University of Southern California. I will post links to memorial notices when they appear.
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How many philosophers get multi-million dollar grants from the Department of Defense?
CMU's Steve Awodey has.
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Dora Russell, Bertrand’s second wife…
…and feminist activist and sex radical. An excerpt: She met Bertrand Russell, arguably her greatest mentor, on a walking tour of the moors in 1916. By candlelight at a little inn, he asked his three young companions what each wanted in life. Compelling work, a world-changing cause, the others answered. And Dora? She didn’t hesitate:
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Millikan’s Dewey Lecture
This is a very interesting read, both historically/sociologically and philosophically. Millikan, like Arthur Fine, was a recent (and rather late, if you ask me) elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Thomas Hobbes, personal trainer
Who knew?
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I don’t get to agree with Justice Alito that often…
…but I can happily agree with this observation (from this profile): The U.S. News and World Report rankings of law schools are an abomination. The legal profession and the country would be better off if they were eliminated. I gather that all these rankings are one of these things that keeps U.S. News and World Report in the black—unlike Newsweek.
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Kant-Studien
"Perhaps the most Nazified philosophy" journal in Germany in the 1930s.
[…] America’s turn towards “competitive authoritarianism,” and the prospects for recov… on Why I fear things will end badly for…