November 2014
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More PGR results: “top 10” in ancient philosophy
The schools are ranked in peer groups by their rounded mean score to .5 intervals; after a school's name appears the median and mode scores. Where the median and mode scores are higher than the rounded mean that usually indicates that a minority of evaluators scored the program a bit more lowly than others. Group…
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Cercone Named Dean of Indiana Tech
Indiana Tech School of Law has named Charles Cercone, currently the associate dean of faculty at Thomas Cooley Law, as its new dean.
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Years to attainment of a humanities PhD
Robert Townsend, Director of the Washington Office of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, kindly sent along this new data. He writes: Instead of the usual calculations, I purchased numbers for the time students spend in the program that confers their degree, which more accurately reflects the focus of many recent reform efforts. The…
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Grand juries rarely indict police officers involved in shootings
This is a solid explanation of the legal standards, which make these outcomes predictable. Remember, also, that a grand jury proceeding is not adversarial: it is only the prosecutor presenting evidence, and if the prosectuor is skeptical that an indictment is appropriate, there's no one arguing the other side.
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More PGR results: “top 5” in 19th-century Continental Philosophy
The schools are ranked in peer groups by their rounded mean score to .5 intervals; after a school's name appears the median and mode scores. Where the median and mode scores are higher than the rounded mean that usually indicates that a minority of evaluators scored the program a bit more lowly than others. …
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“Deep Disagreements: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives”
In Berlin in June. There's also a call for papers.
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“Deep Disagreements: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives”
In Berlin in June. There's also a call for papers.
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More PGR specialty rankings: the top ten in “Metaethics”
The schools are ranked in peer groups by their rounded mean score to .5 intervals; after a school's name appears the median and mode scores. Where the median and mode scores are higher than the rounded mean that usually indicates that a minority of evaluators scored the program a bit more lowly than others. …
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Colorado philosopher Monton reaches settlement with university in return for resignation in 2015
Story from the local Boulder paper here.
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Posner on Posner…
…at Concurring Opinions.
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Retinal detachment
Alas, I suffered one on Friday (though now being treated), which has mostly thrown me off-line and off reading, though I'm gradually getting a reprieve. But between that and the Thanksgiving break, there likely won't be much until next week.
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Retinal detachment
I suffered one the other day, now healing, but it threw me off-line (indeed, off most reading) for a bit, will gradually catch up on various news items during the week.
I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…