July 2015
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It’s educational malpractice to recommend that incoming law students read Llewellyn’s “The Bramble Bush”…
…as, alas, Michael Krauss (George Mason) does in The Washington Post no less. Llewellyn's book is delightful and rich with interesting material, but I guarantee it makes no sense to someone who hasn't already read a lot of cases and studied some basic common-law subjects, like torts and contracts. (I offer the basic Jurisprudence course…
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Warnock, Baggini discuss the situation of women in philosophy…
…in The Guardian. I was astonished that Baggini asserts that, "Another priority is to make philosophers understand better the psychological effects which interfere with their supposedly clear, rational thinking. They should all know, for example, about Sally Haslanger and Jennifer Saul’s work on how psychological phenomena such as implicit bias and stereotype threat might be…
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The “Charitable-Industrial” complex
Reader Jason Palma kindly sends along this link (which I may have posted before) which is relevant to the "Effective [sic] Altruism" movement we've been discussing; this may be the most honest thing any member of the ruling class ever published in The New York Times: Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of…
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I may be backing Trump for the Republican Nomination, but Robert Paul Wolff does me one better…
…he's backing Hillary Clinton for the Republican nomination!
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Hiring Committees for 2015-16
The Prawfs thread has been open for about ten days now, and will be useful to those on the teaching market. Other schools can also announce their hiring plans for this coming year.
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UCSD retains Tolley in face of Chicago offer…and other offers outstanding
We noted in the Spring, that the University of Chicago was making a bid for Clinton Tolley (Kant, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of logic and math) at the University of California, San Diego. Tolley has now declined the offer, and will remain at UCSD. With Tolley and Eric Watkins full-time, and Lucy Allais part-time,…
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More on Admins run amok under the pretense of Title IX…
…at The Nation.
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In Memoriam: Christopher Fairman
Ohio State Law Professor and Associate Dean Christopher Fairman passed away uexpectedly this week. He was 54. Details are here.
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New open access journal debuts…
…Feminist Philosophy Quarterly.
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Schopenhauer on Kant, obscurity, and Hegel
From the "Critique of the Kantian Philosophy," an Appendix to The World as Will and Representation: [T]he most injurious result of Kant's occasionally obscure language is, that it acted as exemplar vitiis imitabile; indeed, it was misconstrued as a pernicious authorisation. The public was compelled to see that what is obscure is not always without significance; consequently, what was…
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Emden on Nietzsche’s naturalism
A longish review of a recent book, perhaps of interest to some readers.
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Call for Papers for the inaugural conference of the International Society for Nietzsche Studies in Bonn, June 2016
Here. Selected papers will appear in Inquiry in late 2016. Anyone may submit papers, per the instructions on the site. We will be able to cover most travel and lodging costs for those without a tenure-stream position whose papers are accepted.
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Naomi Zack’s latest book on race and injustice reviewed…
…at IHE. One of the nice points she makes is about the confusions attendant to talk of "white privilege."
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…