July 2016
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Revenge porn law introduced in Congress
An important milestone; law professor Mary Anne Franks (Miami), the primary author of the bill, is quoted in the article. (Thanks to Jason Walta for the pointer.) UPDATE: An op-ed by Prof. Franks about the law. If there is, in fact, a successful First Amendment challenge to the law, it would just be a further…
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Reaction formation watch: male escorts in Cleveland are making big money while the Republican National Convention is in town
God bless the New York Post. (Thanks to Jason Walta for the pointer.)
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Ten Most-Cited Antitrust Faculty, 2010-2014 (inclusive)
Once again, this draws on the data from the 2015 Sisk study: Rank Name School Citations Age in 2016 1 Herbert Hovenkamp University of Iowa 1070 68 2 Daniel Crane University of Michigan 400 46 3 William Kovacic George Washington University 390 64 Joshua Wright George Mason University 390 39 5 Michael…
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Chignell from Cornell to Penn
Andrew Chignell (Kant, early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he will start in January 2017. That's a big catch for Penn; with Chignell and Gary Hatfield, Penn will once again be a…
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Authoritarian Ergodan, having survived the military coup in Turkey, acts like even more of a tyrant
And he's attacking not just the military, judges, and the police, but he has also demanded that all university deans resign (!), and has barred foreign travel by academics and civil servants (including researchers and faculty at public universities). There is a petition protesting the "purge of academic institutions in Turkey," but given who we're dealing…
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Obligations of law faculty to disclose research supported by those with a stake in the findings?
Prof. Jeff Sovern (St. John's) writes: I have been wondering about the extent of law professors’ ethical obligations to disclose when their research has been supported by a grant from a group with a stake in the findings, and because you are the de facto moderator of the law professor village square, I wondered if…
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Who will you vote for for President?
Just to be clear: the question is not who would you most like to see elected, but who will you vote for come the fall? I list the four candidates likely to be on all (or almost all) ballots, but if the candidate who will get your vote is not listed, check "none of the…
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Optimistic thought…
…from George W. Bush, no less: But few were as dark about the Republican Party’s future as former President Bush himself. In a more intimate moment during the reunion, surrounded by a smaller clutch of former aides and advisers, Bush weighed in with an assessment so foreboding that some who relayed it could not discern…
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Dopey Donald Chump, as we call him, now revealed (yet again) as a narcissistic sociopath and pathological liar
Two revealing articles have recently appeared, which one can only read for amusement if one assumes, as I still do, that my country will not elect this vermin (with apologies to vermin, who do something useful). Quoted in the NYT piece is lawyer Richard Seltzer, whom I worked for almost 30 years ago, on various real…
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Hiring committees can announce themselves…
…and their curricular priorities here.
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Information for current and recent students of Thomas Pogge
The APA Ombudsperson for Discrimination and Sexual Harassment, philosopher Ruth Chang (Rutgers), asked me to share the following statement: As former students of Thomas Pogge, we suspect that there is one group of people who have been harmed in relation to the recent allegations against Pogge, who have not been much considered in the discussion…
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A survey to gauge views of philosophers about identity over time
Philosophy graduate student Kevin Tobia asked me to share this study he is conducting with George Newman to explore what philosophers think about identity continuity. The survey contains images; if these do not load, they recommend trying a different web browser. To begin, click the link above or here: http://yale.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bODRqUEMC1X1dxX
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A first sign of trouble with the new Elsevier-owned SSRN
Uh-oh. UPDATE: More details from IHE, definitely take a look.
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How are journal editors chosen?
A philosopher in Australia writes: There's been lots of discussion over the years on the blog about journal practices, but usually in regards to the submissions and review process. What I don't think has been discussed is in many ways a much more important issue: how are editors – that is, editors in chief,…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…