September 2015
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Program for mentoring female job candidates in philosophy…
…has a new website!
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Inaugural meeting of International Society for Nietzsche Studies, Call for Papers
MOVING TO FRONT FROM SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 We've gotten a remarkably strong (and quick) response to the invitations to participate in the inaugural workshop in Bonn of ISNS, and since we are trying to keep the event relatively small to facilitate serious discussion, we are capping acceptances at around 20 (though there will be a waitlist). Anyone…
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Second brain-dead reactionary quitting Presidential race
Can you guess? Now the people in his home state need to force him to find a new job.
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$8 million gift for advocacy at Campbell Law
Their biggest gift ever!
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Funding and time to degree in the humanities
Rob Townsend, Director of the Washington office of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, writes: Quick note to let you know I’ve posted up another item that philosophers might find of interest—this time on the relationship between funding and time to the humanities PhD (at http://bit.ly/1LqJMc4 ). On average, we find that recent humanities…
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2015 Ig Nobel Prizes announced
Funny as always: how to unboil an egg; every language has "huh?"; where you do not want to be stung.
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Giroux on Trump
A lot of perceptive commentary here.
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Martin Kusch (Vienna) has…
…a blog!
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Legal scholarship that has affected the law
MOVING TO FRONT FROM LAST WEEK–MORE COMMENTS WELCOME Prof. Jeff Sovern (St. John's) writes: We often hear Chief Justice Roberts’s famous complaint about law review articles: “Pick up a copy of any law review that you see and the first article is likely to be, you know, the influence of Immanuel Kant on evidentiary approaches…
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“How to talk to a philosopher”
Amusing advice from a civilian spouse.
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Philosopher Manne opines on “trigger warnings”
Kate Manne, an assistant professor of philosophy at Cornell, has an op-ed on "trigger warnings" in the New York Times. She makes some good points contra this piece (though that piece was not primarily about "trigger warnings"), but elides the real issues which are: (1) PTSD is a clinical diagnosis, and no one I know has…
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New Berggruen Institute for Philosophy and Culture, plus an annual $1 million prize
Details here. They seem to have a strong interest in Chinese philosophy in particular, though there are plenty of fairly conventional Anglophone philosophers represented as well. I suppose the million dollar prize is going to take on the appearance of a "Nobel" in philosophy, though it will depend on how it goes to. Comments are…
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Malkovich does Plato
This sounds bizarre (esp. with Yoko Ono involved!). (Thanks to Michael Swanson for the pointer.)
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Karl “Goebbels” Rove makes the reasonable point…
…that exactly four years ago Rick "I'm actually dumber than I appear to be" Perry was leading the polls at nearly 30% for the Repug nomination. In other words, there's a lot more mischief ahead of us, long after the Republican Establishment destroys Trump. It's true that Trump is the most overtly racist of the current contenders,…
The Wisconsin legislature made UW system implement post-tenure (5-year) reviews several years ago. The statutory requirements were fed into the…