June 2015
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More on odd British street names
This explains everything! (Thanks to Martin O'Neill for the pointer.)
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CHE article on Peter Ludlow and the Northwestern graduate student
Behind a paywall, alas, but very detailed, with extensive quotes from Ludlow and the student. UPDATE: A philosopher elsewhere writes: "Why don’t you open comments? Much of what has been posted has been shown to be wrong. People should face up to that. FP hasn’t linked to it and Justin W is trying to bury it." …
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More senior appointments for KCL: Adamson, Beaney
In addition to the moral philosopher David Owens, King's College, London has also made part-time appointments at the Professorial level of Peter Adamson (late ancient and Islamic philosophy) from Munich (he was previously full-time at KCL) and Michael Beaney (history of analytic philosophy) from York. KCL has come a long way from the crisis of…
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SALT salary survey, 2014-15
Here. Schools with the highest salaries tend not to participate in this survey, but it does give a realistic sense of what's going on at most law schools in the U.S.
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Student Loans Are Better Than the Alternative (Michael Simkovic)
A number of recent analyses purporting to show the negative effects of student loans compare group A, which has student loans and a bachelor’s degree to group B, which has the same level of education but no student loans (see here for an example). Not surprisingly, the studies find that the folks who have a…
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Risk Based Student Loans in Bloomberg (Michael Simkovic)
Here. For earlier coverage, see here. For the original paper, see here.
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Disablity rights activists want philosopher Peter Singer to lose his job…
…since, after all, if your views are offensive, you are not entitled to be employed, right? Peter Singer is, by my lights, a pernicious presence in philosophy, but my lights or the lights of disability activists are irrelevant to whether he should be employed. This is what academic freedom means: academics can hold views that…
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European Court of Human Rights upholds website owner liability for defamatory user-submitted comments
An important decision, striking a small blow for making cyberspace less of a cesspool than it presently is. See esp. page 44 of the opinion. As is so often the case, American law is an outlier here, providing the maximum protection for defamation and hate speech, including especially in cyberspace.
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Actual British street addresses
No further comment.
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Audi from Nebraska/Omaha to Rochester
Paul Audi (metaphysics, philosophy of mind), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Omaha has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rochester.
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Project on “ethics and epistemology of scientific research” at Hannover & Bielefeld
Philosopher Torsten Wilholt (Hannover) writes: The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, the major, publicly funded research agency in Germany) has just given a major grant to a group of nine philosophers from Hannover and Bielefeld chaired by myself (and co-chaired by Martin Carrier from Bielefeld University) for the purpose of creating a graduate research group ("Graduiertenkolleg") on…
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Forbes opinion piece critical of Scott Walker’s attack on the University of Wisconsin
Quite apt, and notable that it should appear at Forbes.
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“Cogito”: a new group philosophy blog…
…featuring Australian philosophers (with some New Zealand philosophers to be added soon). (Thanks to Tim Dean for the pointer.)
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You can’t judge a book by its cover…
…cat edition.
I’m not sure whether an interactive, online logic textbook counts as an open-access philosophy book, but for those who might…