September 2015
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New Books in September
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month (it was a busy month for new books!): Pretense and Pathology: Philosophical Fictionalism and Its Applications by Bradley Armour-Garb & James A. Woodbridge (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Testimony: A Philosophical Introduction by Joseph Shieber (Routledge, 2015). Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction by…
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More on the AAU study of sexual assault on campus
This article makes the interesting point that–contra skeptics who assume a low response rate skews the results towards higher estimates–when one looks at schools with much higher response rates, one finds even higher rates of reported sexual assault, suggesting that lower-response-rate schools are one in which victims are underrepresented in the results. (Thanks to Cheyney…
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NYLS to start a pro bono clinic for victims of cyberharassment
They will likely be very busy!
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“Mudd goes Madd,” and the Pomona student government…
…really is nuts!
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Royal Society of Canada recognizes leading younger scholars
A nice idea, and those recognized include three philosophers: Kristin Andrews (York University, Toronto); Antonio Calcagno (King's University College at Western University), and Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University).
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Trump tax plan is for chumps…
…I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Class interest is class interest, after all, even when you don't depend on other billionaires for support.
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USD’s Fleischer on the Trump tax plan
At the New York Times.
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The increased “neediness” of college students…
…a fairly sober report from Psychology Today. At bottom, this is all very sad, both for the students and for those charged with helping them. ADDENDUM: These developments are symptomatic of two phenomena, one hopeful, one pernicious. The hopeful phenomenon is that treatments for previously debilitating mental health problems are dramatically improved over the last generation: …
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Another “psychopath” running for the Republican nomination for President
But can you guess which one?
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The latest efforts by the pro-Israel lobby to suppress speech…
…at the University of California. (Thanks to John Rapko for the pointer.)
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“Culture of victimhood?”
No, it's not; yes, it is. (Some of the comments at the latter are a bit, shall we say, "off topic," but several are interesting on both sides of the issue.) (Thanks to a reader who asked not to be named for the pointers.) ADDENDUM: Things are going a bit further off the rails at the…
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Academics get MacArthur windfalls…
…via IHE. They used to be known as the "genius" awards until it became obvious that wasn't the selection criterion! What is the selection criterion? No one is really sure.
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Top 20 “general” philosophy journals
In case law professors want to know. Note that the poll did not include a number of excellent journals (like Ethics or British Journal for the History of Philosophy or Philosophy of Science), because they only publish in particular sub-fields of philosophy, rather than more broadly.
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The top 20 “general” philosophy journals, 2015
So with results from our two earlier polls (both of which got over 500 votes each), here are the "top 20"; where the vote differential between one journal and the journal ahead of it were substantial, I insert a line in between; where there is no line, it means the vote differences were relatively small. 1. …
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Maryland’s Peter Carruthers is blogging about his new book…
…at the Brains blog.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii