March 2015
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Ramsey from Notre Dame to KU Leuven
Grant Ramsey (philosophy of biology, philosophy of science), currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has accepted appointment as BOFZAP Research Professor at KU Leuven, effective July 2016.
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Number of Law Graduates Does Not Predict Law Graduate Outcomes (Michael Simkovic)
Many legal educators believe that shrinking class sizes will help the students they do admit find higher paid work more easily and boost the value of legal education. They reason that if the supply of law graduates shrinks, then the market price law graduates can command should increase. According to another hypothesis, now popular in…
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Spiros does public philosophy…
…while waiting for the bus.
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Neoliberalism in higher education watch: bill filed to privatize public universities in Illinois…
…similar moves afoot elsewhere. Further proof that Ronald Reagan is still President, and that the Chicago School of economics still rules America.
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As of March 13, LSAC reports applicants are down… (MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY, UPDATED)
…4.7% from the same time last year. Back in January, applicants were down over 7% from the prior year. The trend of more applicants emerging late in the season that we have noted before continues. UPDATE: As of March 20, applicants are now down only 2.9% from last year. My guess is that we have hit bottom in…
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Barry Allen did not like Steve Fuller’s book
Rightly so, do read the whole thing. From the conclusion: In my view, in this book Fuller lends support to some dicey propositions, including creationism and intelligent design, the ideas of Teilhard de Chardin, neurotheology, and transhumanism, not to mention an epistemology of divine psychology. By itself that would not trouble me. What troubles me…
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A useful list of predatory publishers, journals…
…and other academic mischief. (Thanks to Dean Rowan for the pointer.)
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Catching up with Marx…
…periodically the economists do it: Within two decades, we will have almost unlimited energy, food, and clean water; advances in medicine will allow us to live longer and healthier lives; robots will drive our cars, manufacture our goods, and do our chores. There won’t be much work for human beings. Self-driving cars will be commercially…
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Advertising update
There's still a 2nd from the top spot in April for $600, as well as 4th from the top spots ($450 each). May still has one top and one second from the top available ($700 and $600, respectively).
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Philosopher Adam Morton on “pitch perception”
Unusual and interesting.
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Essentially open racism by a member of the U of Oklahoma Board of Regents
Wow, and double wow.
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The New Infantilism makes the NY Times
A useful overview of examples, many of which resonate with nonsense we've seen in academic philosophy.
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A virtual tour through ancient Rome
This is neat, show your kids!
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii