May 2014
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U.S. citizens and residents
Please take a moment to send a postcard, to build on the momentum in the wake of Richard Martinez's plea for sanity about guns in this benighted country. And let's not forget the Australian experience. Real gun control works.
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Caruso & Levy discuss consciousness and moral responsibility…
…at Philosophy TV.
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My legal philosophy blog…
…is coming back to life.
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U Arizona cuts non-resident tuition
Blog Emperor Caron has the details. I suspect that part of the plan is to make up lost revenue with the new B.A. in which law faculty will teach. All-in-all, some interesting strategic moves by U of Arizona that will be watched closely by schools nationwide.
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Flow chart for figuring out the names of animals in German
German is such a rational language.
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MIT Philosophy now requiring the GRE
See here. They had been largely alone among leading PhD programs in not requiring it, though I gather many students submitted it anyway (unsurprisingly, given that peer programs did require it). I would guess that, like most major programs, the GRE will function more as a floor than a positive factor in favor of admission.
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Ergo, the new open access journal of philosophy…
…has its debut. (There's an informative introduction to the project here.)
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Some questions and doubts about Greenberg’s “Moral Impact Theory of Law”
(The following grew out of a discussion with two Chicago students doing an "independent study" in advanced general jurisprudence: 3L Courtney Cox and 2L Phil Smoke. They are not responsible for what follows, but I was helped by discussing the paper with them.) Mark Greenberg (UCLA) has recently published a paper that synthesizes some of…
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Ethical robots?
The U.S. Department of Defense [sic] is concerned. (Thanks to Jim Klagge for the pointer.)
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Deja vu all over again: the fascists are back
MOVING TO FRONT FROM MAY 25–AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION IN THE COMMENTS, AND SEE THE UPDATE. Or is there more to the story? Thoughts from European readers? Links to useful analyses also welcome. ADDENDUM: On the plus side, the openly fascist "Golden Dawn" in Greece did not do well. UPDATE: More on some of the newly…
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More on the humanities
This time from philosopher David McCabe (Colgate). It's nicely written and makes several good points. (Thanks to Reid Blackman for the pointer.)
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Law professors as university presidents
This is just off the top of my head, but it seems like a lot: Kent Syverud at Syracuse University; Michael Fitts at Tulane University; Joel Seligman at University of Rochester; John Sexton at New York University; Lee Bollinger at Columbia University; Bill Powers at the University of Texas at Austin; Frederick Lawrence at Brandeis University; Nicholas Zeppos…
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Yes, it’s true, large numbers of Americans are dumb or nuts…
…or both. (Thanks to Michael Swanson for the pointer.)
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Another plug for a “liberal arts” education
From an unlikely (and not very admirable) source, but no harm in getting the message out there. (Thanks to Isaac Wagner for the pointer.)
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“Death on a plane”
Spiros shares an amusing story.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii