September 2014
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New Books in September
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books: After Hegel: German Philosophy, 1840-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser (Princeton University Press, 2014). Disagreement by Bryan Frances (Polity Press, 2014). Axel Hagerstrom and Modern Social Thought edited by Sven Eliaeson, Patricia Mindus, & Stephen P. Turner (Bardwell Press, 2014). Law and Authority Under the Guise of…
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In Memoriam: Gerhard Øverland (1964-2014)
Jeff McMahan (Oxford) has just written with the tragic news of the "death of Gerhard Øverland, a brilliant philosopher who had appointments at the University of Oslo and at CAPPE in Australia. He died of cancer in Oslo on September 19." Oslo has a memorial notice here.
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Marmor from USC to Cornell
The legal philosopher Andrei Marmor at the University of Southern California will join the law and philosophy faculties at Cornell University as of July 1, 2015, while his wife, legal scholar Beth Garrett, the current Provost at USC, will become President of Cornell. That should put Cornell on the radar screen for prospective students thinking…
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USC’s Beth Garrett to be next President of Cornell
Story here. Her husband, the legal philosopher Andrei Marmor, who is a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Southern California, will take up a similar position at Cornell. (Thanks to Rick Hasen for the pointer.)
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Toronto’s Jennifer Nagel on intuitions about knowledge…
…at Philosophy Bites.
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Steven Salaita at U of Chicago next week
Basic info here.
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In Memoriam: William Quirk
Professor William Quirk, a senior member of the University of South Carolina Law faculty, died last week. He was 80. Quirk joined the USC Law faculty in 1970 and was the law school's most senior active faculty member.
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Salaita in the Chicago Tribune
A strong statement.
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Longtime readers will recall the Lawrence VanDyke/Harvard Law Review/Intelligent Design scandal from 2004
Oddly, it's now back in the news. Earlier links: here, here, here, and here.
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The group polarization phenomenon and cyberspace
I've touched on this before, but this short discussion by privacy law scholar Daniel Solove (George Washington) is useful, and includes other links.
Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture (Amherst College Press, 2020) is a finalist for the 2026…