April 2015
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AAUP reaches expected conclusions on Salaita case and U of Illinois…
…now faces censure. (Philosopher Kirk Sanders is quoted in the IHE article towards the end; kudos to him for his forthright remarks.)
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The scientific consensus among gun researchers
Usefully described here.
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New York Times relies on unrepresentative anecdotes and flawed study to provide slanted coverage of legal education (Michael Simkovic)
Just when you thought The New York Times was rounding the corner and starting to report responsibly about legal education based on hard data and serious labor economics studies, their reporting reverts to the unfortunate form it has taken for much of the last 5 years*—relying on unrepresentative anecdotes and citing fundamentally flawed working papers to paint legal…
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European Society for Analytic Philosophy…
…has a new website and is newly active as well. (Thanks to Catarina Dutilh Novaes, who is also a member of the Steering Committee, for the pointer.)
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I call “bullshit” on this one…
…a story allegedly about a fearful closeted Christian law professor at an elite school? The late William Stuntz at Harvard, Michael McConnell at Stanford, David Skeel at Penn, Stephen Bainbridge at UCLA all seem to have done rather well at elite schools, despite being quite openly religious. (I'm sure there are others, but the preceding scholars have…
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Brian Leiter watch
Graphic designer!
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Maudlin contra Hawking on Why Physics Needs Philosophy
Some nice examples. Since so many physicists are clearly tone-deaf philosophically, I wonder whether how many will be persuaded? (Thanks to Michael Swanson for the pointer.)
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Regarding “open threads”
As last week's comment threads showed, the best and most interesting discussions took place not on the "open thread" but on those with particular, focused topics. So going forward, that's probably what I'll do, though I'll try to do a couple each week, time (for moderating) permitting. I may, of course, do some future threads…
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25 “must read” books in philosophy before starting graduate school?
A student writes: I will be starting my MA (terminal) programme in Philosophy in the Fall of this year, in Europe. I don't have a background in the subject and want to spend the few months before the session begins, in reading several works in the subject. Could you please give (or ask on your…
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What distinguishes your state (in America)?
I've no idea whether any of this is true, but it's still rather amusing.
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The libertarians at “Reason” seem to have been sold a bill of goods…
…since Colin McGinn really isn't the poster boy for ideological conformity and restrictions on free speech run amok in the academy (Steven Salaita would be a better bet!). Consider from CHE: [The student's] long-term boyfriend, Benjamin Yelle—a fifth-year graduate student in the department—described some of the correspondence [from McGinn], including several passages that he said were…
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The 80 people whose wealth equals that of half of humanity
I'm shocked there are no law professors on this list. If only the cut off had been 5 billion…
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John Searle on the radio…
…talking about perception, Descrates, Kant and other topics. (Thanks to Aaron Thomas for the pointer.)
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Publishing as an MA student applying to PhD programs
An MA student writes: Two questions (one general, one specific) regarding publishing at the terminal-Masters graduate level. (1) Is it possible and encouraged to publish as a terminal-Masters graduate student? (2) If one's first journal publication is in their secondary area of interest (e.g., say one publishes in ethics or aesthetics while their primary AOI…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…