April 2015
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Open thread on issues in the profession for the week of April 20, 2015
Unless there's more interest, this may be the last one of these. I will continue to open comments on selected other threads, of course.
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“A Challenge to Gun Rights”
Jeff McMahan (Oxford) calls my attention to his latest post at the Practical Ethics blog. Alas, the bulk of the comments following the post are disgracefully idiotic; hopefully, they will be removed, and an adult discussion might ensue.
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Signs of the times: cutbacks at Catholic University…
…due in part to a ten million dollar revenue decline at the law school.
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The Metaethics Workshop, formerly in Madison, is moving to Chapel Hill…
….along with Russ Shafer-Landau. I usually don't do conference announcements, but given that many people asked regarding the faculty move announcement, I am making an exception.
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A Saturday night Marx question
Now you know what I'm working on this evening. Here it is in brief: Marx thought technological innovation under capitalism would produce a falling rate of profit for capitalist enterprises, but he thought this because he accepted the labor theory of value, which is false. Yet at the limit technological innovation under capitalism will produce…
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What is it like to be a philosopher?
The Brit Brogaard story! This is due to the good work of Clifford Sosis.
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Philosophy PhDs outside academe…
…in The Atlantic.
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How is social media affecting job candidates?
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$10.6 million grant from NIH to University of Idaho to support Center for Modelling Complex Interactions…
…including work by philosopher Bert Baumgaertner. (Thanks to Graham Hubbs for the pointer.)
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A visually pleasing Philosophers’ Carnival…
…at Aesthetics for Birds of course!
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The rich get richer, private universities in America edition
Moody's reports the facts: The top 10 private names are familiar: Harvard University ($42.8 billion in cash and investments in fiscal 2014), Stanford University ($31.6 billion), Yale University ($25.4 billion), Princeton University ($21.3 billion), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($15.2 billion), University of Pennsylvania ($11.9 billion), Duke University ($11.4 billion), Northwestern University ($10.4 billion), Columbia University…
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World’s least religious countries
Interesting how much stronger the effect on religiosity of communist rule in China was than in the former Soviet Union. (Amusingly, the Washington Post informs us that China also instilled materialism in its people as well. I thought that had only happened in Australia.) (Thanks to Varol Akman for the pointer.)
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…