October 2015
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Edinburgh’s “Intro to Philosophy” is most popular…
…MOOC! Impressive.
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Pasquale responds to New York Times’ latest critique of law student loans (Michael Simkovic)
Frank Pasquale responds to a very poorly researched editorial by The New York Times Editorial Board. My own response is forthcoming and I'll link to other responses in the coming days. Update 10.25.2015 8:30pm: Pasquale places the student loan debate in the broader context of privatization efforts.
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Growing, Improving, and Diversifying Philosophy, Part 2
Part 1 of this series focused on (1) development and (2) pre-college philosophy. In part 2, I’ll focus on identifying the geographical distribution of philosophy to get a better understanding of where access inequality occurs and where we can strategically grow the profession. I am going to focus on comparing HBCUs, Women’s colleges, elite universities,…
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Philosophy’s Third Rail
I’m going to talk a bit about reactions to my Women in Philosophy post, sexual harassment, and the APA. I’ll keep it short. I wrote a fairly benign post about what philosophy isn’t doing to promote itself to girls and women. I was falsely accused of calling feminist philosophers names, of advocating covering up harassment,…
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I forgot to say ‘thanks’ to the great Guest Bloggers…
…but they were really great (thanks!), and I enjoyed catching up on them since I've been back. They all have an open invitation to continue contributing. And, yes, for those who are wondering, Les Green is alive and well, just got occupied.
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Doing Empirical Philosophy
This is probably my last post here since Brian is now back in action. I’d like to thank him for the opportunity. I had in mind to write more posts, but I did not realize how time consuming this can be. In any case, here is the follow up post I promised a few days…
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More on “Effective [sic] Altruism”
In the LRB: As a doctor with experience in international health I have found that some of the claims made by the proponents of effective altruism are not merely ‘satisfyingly counterintuitive’: they are wrong. For example, MacAskill claims that deworming has better educational outcomes among Kenyan schoolchildren than increasing the number of textbooks or teachers.…
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New School’s Nancy Fraser on feminism and capitalism
Here. And more recently.
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Stanley’s “How Propaganda Works” reviewed…
…by at least one person you know. (Sorry for not posting sooner, I was on the road.)
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$100 million naming gift for the law school at Northwestern University
Wow! The Pritzkers are Chicago billionaires, heir to the Hyatt Hotel chain fortune. There is also a Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. (Sorry for not posting this sooner, I was on the road.)
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Common sense about the PGR
A well-known philosopher elsewhere writes: I was recently a keynote at a small school’s undergrad conference. I talked with the students about admissions, and asked them what was most important. They all named the gourmet report. And all of them would be hopeless at making their choice any other way (they don’t know how to…
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Growing, Improving, and Diversifying Philosophy, Part 1
So far my posts have revolved around inequity caused by university structure, the lack of accreditation for philosophy, the rise of assessment, and university privilege and the problem of diversity in philosophy. I claim that the only solution to the problem of diversity in philosophy is to grow the discipline and profession. There is a…
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I was in Oxford a few days ago talking about Nietzsche and the death of God…
…and my friend Les Green (Oxford) captured the crucial moment.
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Stubblefield case in the NY Times
A long and informative article here. (Thanks to the several different readers who sent this along.)
Don’t click the transcript – it’s a mis-transcription that makes Harvey sound unhinged. The bit of it that’s visible without…