March 2015
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First issue of JAPA appears…
…as pointed out by a commentator on the open thread. I'm reading the two articles on Continental figures (one on Nietzsche, one on Heidegger), and will have more to say in due course. Other comments about the first issue may be posted at the open thread.
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New Books in March
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Transformative Experience by L.A. Paul (Oxford University Press, 2014). Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics by Maudemarie Clark (Oxford University Press, 2015). The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century edited by Michael N. Forster & Kristin Gjesdal (Oxford University Press, 2015). Imagination…
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Kids misbehavin’
Some of these are really funny.
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More on Leigh Cauman
Philosopher Allen Hazen (formerly Melbourne, now teaching at Alberta) writes: It is perhaps worth noting that Leigh Cauman (under her maiden name, Steinhardt) was Quine's first Ph.D. supervisee (at "Radcliffe College," Harvard University in those days not giving degrees under its own name to women), in 1940. Her dissertation was about "the variable" and semantics–…
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“Social justice warrior” defined
I was corresponding with a philosopher elsewhere about yet another cyber-example of the pathetic identity politics/language police, whom my correspondent described as an SJW, or "social justice warrior." I had not heard the term before, but my correspondent's explanation of it is worth sharing: Functionally defined, "SJW" designates someone who monitors cyberspace for slights or miscues…
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Republican Mayor of Indianapolis defies Republican Governor…
…and bans discrimination against gay men and women by businesses that receive city funds. It's hard to imagine clearer proof that the era of anti-gay bigotry is coming to an end when anti-gay animus is no longer safe even for Republicans.
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In Memoriam: Leigh S. Cauman (1917-2015)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–SEE UPDATE Dr. Cauman was Managing Editor of the Journal of Philosophy from 1962 to 1987, and also taught logic in the School of General Studies at Columbia University. Professor Charles Parsons, now Emeritus at Harvard, but who taught at Columbia for many years as well, informed me of her passing…
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Blast from the past: Nick Cohen, apologist for wars of aggression
Another from 2004.
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One-party state watch: inequality edition
Most Americans want something done about inequality, but candidates in neither party want to deal with the issue. Now what could explain that?
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Kant and evidence law in Bulgaria in the 18th-century
There have been a lot of doom-and-gloom reports about layoffs and collapsing job opportunities for lawyers. As we’ve noted before, the relevant question for valuing legal education is the boost to earnings from the law degree across occupations, not the more specific question of what is happening to lawyers, or even more specifically, big law…
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Lateral moves since the fall 2014 PGR survey
With decision time coming for PhD applicants, here is a summary of lateral moves with tenure since the fall PGR: Jonathan Kvanvig (epistemology, philosophy of religion) from Baylor University (where he was undoubtedly Baylor's leading senior figure) to Washington University, St. Louis. Tristram McPherson (ethics, metaethics) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to Ohio…
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Open thread on issues in the profession for the week of March 30, 2015
Post your comment only once, I will approve them at various intervals during the day.
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“Normativity for Naturalists”
This paper is for a forthcoming volume of Philosophical Issues (the supplement to Nous) on "Normativity" edited by Ram Neta. It's a bit more philosophically technical than the typical purely jurisprudential piece, but may interest some readers.
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Lots of new junior appointments listed…
—-at PhilJobs. (And special congratulations to Nir Ben-Moshe, the first of the PhD students I've had the privilege of working with here to go on the job market; he will start in a tenure-track position at Illinois/Urbana-Champaign!)
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“Normativity for Naturalists”
This paper is for a forthcoming volume of Philosophical Issues (the supplement to Nous) on "Normativity" edited by Ram Neta.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii