August 2015
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UCLA’s A.J. Julius declines Harvard offer
A good retention for UCLA. Harvard is 0 for 2 now in its attempts to hire in moral/political philosophy, with T.M. Scanlon's retirement imminent.
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Regarding the West Point professor who thought law professors should be declared “enemy combatants”
A number of readers have written to me about one William Bradford, who has a rather sordid history in legal academia; the latest development is here and follow the links therein for more about this strange character.
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New Books in August
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Catching Capital: The Ethics of Tax Competition by Peter Dietsch (Oxford University Press, 2015). Memory: A History edited by Dmitri Nikulin (Oxford University Press, 2015). Plotinus Ennead II.5 On What is Potentially and What Actually, trans., intro. and with commentary by Cinzia Arruza (Parmenides…
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On-line philosophy of mind conference begins today…
…at the Brains blog. (Thanks to John Schwenkler for the pointer.)
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Chicago Alumni and Bigelows on the Teaching Market, 2015-16
MOVING TO FRONT, ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 12 This post is for schools who expect to be hiring this year. In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me at bleiter@uchicago.edu to get a copy of the detailed profiles of our candidates, including hyperlinks to their homepages. All these candidates (except for two)…
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Meanwhile in American politics…
…this poll out of Iowa among likely Democratic and Republican voters is very revealing. A few takeaways: (1) Sanders is closing in on Clinton even in Iowa, and Clinton's lead has been collapsing all summer; (2) the real story on the Republican side is not Trump anymore, but the rise of Ben Carson (who is…
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Gawker now carrying Prof. Tannsjo’s essay that Vox rejected
Amusing. I think this is on its way to being the best-known bit of philosophy in cyberspace.
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Only about a third of published psychological findings (even less in social psychology) are reliable
NY Times reports, including a link to the Science article. Haven't had time to read the article carefully; any readers care to comment on which results of interest to philosophers failed the reliability tests?
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Advertising update
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Only one-third of published psychology results (even *less* in social psychology) turn out to be reliable!
Wow. This is going to require a serious rethinking of the role of empirical psychology in law and in philosophy, among other disciplines.
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“Timing Law School” in The Washington Post (Michael Simkovic)
Frank McIntyre and I summarize Timing Law School in The Washington Post.
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“Philosophical superheroes?” Garber and Della Rocca in discussion
Michael Della Rocca (Yale) writes: Recently — in May — Dan Garber and I had a friendly debate in which we discussed both matters of interpretation of Spinoza and the issue of methodologies for the study of history of philosophy. On the former topic, the focus was on Dan's criticisms of my PSR-based interpretation of…
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Case in Point (Michael Simkovic)
I recently posted about the need for law schools to fund the AALS so that it can become a resource for journalists and encourage more accurate and balanced press coverage. I noted how unrepresentative and disconnected from reality the press coverage has been, and that individual law professors and deans who have pointed this out…
I’ve only just heard this news and am sorry to read it. I was taught as an undergrad and postgrad…