June 2016
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10 Most-Cited Civil Procedure Faculty, 2010-2014 (inclusive) (CORRECTED, June 30)
Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study: Rank Name School Citations Age in 2016 1 Arthur Miller New York University 1300 82 2 Judith Resnik Yale University 1060 66 3 Kevin Clermont Cornell University 680 71 4 Stephen Burbank University of Pennsylvania 580 69 5 Richard Marcus University of…
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Rutgers makes bid for Penn’s Guerrero (MOVING TO FRONT–UPDATED)
ORIGINALLY POSTED MAY 5, 2016 Alexander Guerrero (political and legal philosophy), who is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Pennsylvania, has been voted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. UPDATE: Guerrero has accepted the offer from Rutgers, to start September 1.
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Penn’s Michael Weisberg to be the new editor of the journal Biology & Philosophy…
…effective January 1. (He takes over from the ANU's Kim Sterelny.)
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New Books in June
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: The Ethics of Self-Defense edited by Christian Coons & Michael Weber (Oxford University Press, 2016). The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher edited by Mark Couch & Jessica Pfeifer (Oxford University Press, 2016). Moral Motivation: A History edited by Iakovos Vasiliou (Oxford University Press, 2016). Buddhism…
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One benefit of Elsevier taking over SSRN…
…you can now search the full text of papers on SSRN.
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Brexit: straight to farce
Philosopher Gordon Finlayson (Sussex) comments. (A longer version of this essay is here.) [UPDATE: second link now fixed.]
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The “Chicago-Style” article
Finally, a clear explanation of what most of my colleagues are doing!
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Reader e-mail of the week
From a tenured philosophy professor elsewhere in the U.S.: Thanks as always for the light you cast on the civil liberties issues in our embarrassing profession.
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Excellent letter from philosopher Alan White (U Wisconsin/Manitowoc) calling out the ridiculous rationalizations offered by defenders of the right of civilians to own weapons of war and mass murder
Here; also reprinted below: Politician Ron Johnson and columnist Christian Schneider have claimed that assault weapons don't need to be banned because they already are. They say this to deflect attention from the AR-15-style weapons used by the Orlando murderer, since his weapon was a semiautomatic, and since it shares the same kind of reloading…
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Some realism about China…and the U.S….
…from my colleague in political science John Mearsheimer; among other apt observations, he notes that the U.S. is "addicted to war," and, of course, the Chinese realize that.
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The slave revolt in philosophy, redux
In my interview awhile back with Clifford Sosis, I remarked that, All the best suggestions for improving the PGR have come, without exception, from those who contributed to it over the years. Almost all the other criticisms were on the spectrum from self-serving to silly. The PGR was a fabulous resource, unlike anything else in…
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“Ode to the EU”
Once again, from Oxford philosophy student Samuel Bruce. ADDENDUM: Thanks to Steve Stich for calling to my attention a different kind of "ode."
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On Scanlon’s egalitarianism…
…at the Boston Review.
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From the Ayn Rand cookbook
This is funny. (Thanks to Dean Rowan for the pointer.)
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10 Most-Cited Property Faculty, 2010-2014 (inclusive)
Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study: Rank Name School Citations Age in 2016 1 Carol Rose University of Arizona 710 76 2 Henry Smith Harvard University 680 51 3 Joseph William Singer Harvard University 580 62 4 Michael Heller Columbia University 560 54 5 Vicki Been New York University 450…
I’ve only just heard this news and am sorry to read it. I was taught as an undergrad and postgrad…