May 2016
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New books in May
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Plato on the Metaphysical Foundations of Meaning and Truth by Blake E. Hestir (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Question of Identity, 1844-1869 by Daniel Blue (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Disorientation and Moral Life by Ami Harbin (Oxford University Press, 2016).…
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Deroy from London’s Institute of Philosophy to LMU
Ophelia Deroy (philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience), currently Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy in London, has accepted appointment as Chair of Philosophy of Mind at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, effective January 2017. She will also continue to be an Associate Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Senses in London.
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How one top department understands faculty hiring
This is from the self-review by the UCLA Department of Philosophy in 2012 (which has been making the rounds on social media); it's a useful reality check on a lot of the blather in cyber-space: This guides our approach to hiring: we place a premium on finding creative, talented people who can contribute to the intellectual life…
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Twenty Most-Cited Constitutional & Public Law Faculty in the United States, 2010-2014 (inclusive) (corrected as of May 31)
Once again, this draws on the data from the 2015 Sisk study. I have included here some scholars whose work straddles constitutional and administrative law (e.g., Sunstein, Vermeule), but I will do a separate listing that will include administrative law scholars with little or no general constitutional law work in their profile. As with all these listings,…
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Students (from Harvard?) heckle HLS Dean Minow as she receives an award at Brandeis
Video here. One does wonder what these folks are protesting exactly.
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Alas, it appears the prediction guru of the 2012 election, Nate Silver, has lost the touch…
…as this piece usefully documents.
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New Haven Register on the allegations against Pogge
One particularly interesting, new detail: Pogge also wrote that he passed a polygraph test. (He sent a letter to the Register from the Center for Investigation and Forensic Polygraph, which stated that during the April 21 polygraph Pogge was truthful in his denial of having touched Lopez Aguilar inappropriately.) Putting aside the worries about the…
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Dopey Donald Chump, knowing nothing about the value of education and enlightenment, has a college plan…
…that would produce carnage in higher education. Compared to the carnage he would cause in general, perhaps literally, this might pale by comparison. (Thanks to Ram Neta for the pointer.)
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Western Illinois University Board of Trustees considering elimination of the Philosophy Program
MOVING TO FRONT–ORIGINALLY POSTED MAY 27 See page 45 of the just-released agenda items. A report prepared by a university committee for the Provost had not recommended closure, but had recommended other measures to reduce costs (see the report to the Provost here: Download APER Committee Report). My frequent guest-blogger Professor Christopher Pynes, who is…
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20 Most-Cited Administrative and/or Environmental Law Faculty, 2010-2014 (inclusive) (corrected)
Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study, though this category is admittedbly slightly more artificial than some of the others. Some of the faculty below work in administrative law, but do no work in environmental; some work in both; and some work in other areas of regulatory law, like telecommunications, which overlap with administrative…
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The neoliberal disaster for public higher education in the U.S….
…with discussion of the City University of New York system, Arizona, and California, among others. UPDATE: Commentary on the preceding from Brooklyn College political theorist Corey Robin.
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Dont overlook the fact that Dopey Donald Chump is sufficiently greedy and incompetent…
…that it turns out he's got no money on hand for television ads.
There is a lot to reflect on here but, having already commented enough, I won’t. Just one thing on climate…