June 2015
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So the Federal Government may not “rate” colleges after all…
…IHE has the latest (somewhat murky) details.
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How did Wisconsin, home of mid-20th-century progressivism, end up in control of a venal moron like Scott Walker?
I mean, seriously? How did this happen? This "man" is not fit to be dog catcher (well, he might be up to that job). What happened in Wisconsin?
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A new reader poll: what other philosophy-related blogs do you read regularly (e.g., 2 or 3 times per week)
Have at it: <div><a href="http://www.micropoll.com/a/mpview/1075246-4827111">Click Here for Poll</a><BR><a href="http://www.questionpro.com" title="online survey">Online Survey</a><BR><a href="http://www.micropoll.com" title="Polls">Polls</a></a><BR><a href="http://www.micropoll.com/a/MicroPoll?mode=html&id=4827111">View MicroPoll</A></div> Survey Templates UPDATE: Whoops, I forgot to include Philosophers' Cocoon. Sorry! ANOTHER UPDATE: So there were nearly 2300 votes cast, though since this poll allowed multiple votes, I'm guessing this represents the reading habits of the 600+ readers…
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Lateral hires with tenure, 2014-15
MOVING TO FRONT–ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 22, 2014 These are appointments with tenure that will begin in 2015; I will move this to the front at various intervals during the year; recent additions are bolded. *Owen Anderson (oil & gas law, natural resources) from the University of Oklahoma, Norman to the University of Texas, Austin.…
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New “accelerated” Philosophy PhD at UC Irvine
An interesting and promising idea, along with the new faculty appointments at Irvine (including some pending), this will make the Philosophy PhD at Irvine particularly attractive. UPDATE: I'm told by a philosopher at Notre Dame that they offer a similar program, though there's nothing on-line about it at present.
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Philosophy of sport…
…at The Critique.
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Audio recordings of lectures by John Rawls now on-line
They are available here. (Thanks to Eric Johnson-DeBaufre, Librarian of the Robbins Library of Philosophy at Harvard, for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: Robert L. Arrington (1938-2015)
A longtime member of the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University, which he helped develop into one of the leading MA programs in the country, he was perhaps best-known for his work on Wittgenstein. There is an obituary here.
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ABA Task Force on Financing Legal Education Advocates Disclosure, Experimentation and More Empirical Research (Michael Simkovic)
The ABA Task Force on Financing Legal Education’s report was released last week. I was among the people who testified before the Task Force last summer, and the report cites both my presentation and my research with Frank McIntyre on The Economic Value of a Law Degree. Consistent with our research, the report notes that challenges facing…
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Weird British street names watch, part 3: “Ban-gays” or “Bangay’s”?
What a strange country. (Thanks to Dan Dennis for the pointer.)
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Sitemeter has gone crazy
A couple of readers have inquired about the Sitemeter stats, which now report this blog as having over 100,000 hits per day (compared to about 9,000 hits per day before it went mad, which is still above average for summer). The recent Sitemeter reports are inaccurate, and we still can't figure out what happened. For…
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“Effective Altruist Philosophers”
Alexander Dietz, a PhD student at the University of Southern California, kindly calls to my attention this initiative. As I told Mr. Dietz, I am a bit skeptical of undertakings like this, for the simple reason that most human misery has systemic causes, which charity never addresses, but which political change can address; ergo, all…
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ABA Task Force on Financing Legal Education Final Report
Here. The two most concrete proposals are to mandate enhanced financial counseling for prospective students, to be sure they understand federal loan programs and their options; and to mandate greater disclosure of law school finances, including tuition discounting. I was also pleased to see on p. 22 that evidence triumphed over anecdote and ideology when, citing…
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Pittsburgh’s Robert Brandom interviewed…
…at 3AM. BL COMMENT: It's a bit amusing that the only books Brandom recommends that he didn't write are by the one important philosopher who adopts an anti-representationalist view like his (Huw Price at Cambridge), plus one colleague and two former students. Oh philosophy!
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…