July 2016
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A long profile of Martha Nussbaum…
…in The New Yorker.
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3AM Magazine responds to Brexit
Here and here. (Thanks to Richard Marshall for the pointers.)
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“Love trumps hate”
A special billboard for the Repug convention in Cleveland. (Thanks to Sam Murray for the pointer.)
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Ten Most-Cited Torts/Products Liability/Insurance Law Faculty, 2010-2014 (inclusive)
Once again, this draws on the data from the 2015 Sisk study: Rank Name School Citations Age in 2016 1 John C.P. Goldberg Harvard University 550 55 2 Benjamin Zipursky Fordham University 470 56 3 Tom Baker University of Pennsylvania 450 57 4 Robert Rabin Stanford University 410 77 5 Catherine…
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Another case of intentional murder of police, this time in Baton Rouge, Louisiana…
…site of a highly publicized police killing of an African-American man a couple of weeks ago. The only thing this guarantees is that there will be more police shootings of innocent people, since increased and justified paranoia among police in certain neighborhoods will now be the norm: those afraid of being shot are more likely to fire…
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Three philosophers elected to the British Academy
They are: Jonathan Dancy ("Research Professor" at Reading; also Professor at UT Austin); Miranda Fricker (Sheffield, but who is moving to CUNY); and (as a Corresponding Fellow), Judith Jarvis Thomson (emerita, MIT). In addition, the political theorist Michael Walzer (emeritus, IAS) was also elected a Corresponding Fellow. UPDATE: Philosopher Rob Stainton (Western Ontario) writes: "Robyn…
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More on police violence and racism
A genuinely illuminating discussion from sociologist Randall Collins (Penn). Related posts here and here. (Thanks to Howard Berman for calling it to my attention.) UPDATE: This is a really rich essay, but here's one excerpt to give readers a taste: Cops are under tension every time they stop a suspect. Tension is higher if conflict…
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Crowds have no wisdom unless heavily filtered…
…a point obvious to anyone who spends time in cyberspace, but is nicely explained here. (Thanks to Dean Rowan for the pointer.)
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Historians on Donald Trump
The facebook page. (Thanks to Eric Dejardin for the pointer.)
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New website offerings interviews with philosophers outside the academy…
…and/or pursuing philosophy in less conventional ways than academia, courtesy of Derek Bowman.
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Some interesting facts
(1) Over the last year, the gender breakdown of academics criticized on this blog was nearly 75% male, about 25% female. This fact (which is what it is) won't stop, however, some benighted souls from asserting otherwise. Why? Group polarization: when some malevolent dope says on Facebook that I criticize more women than men, other…
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Polls, polls, polls
We're being inundated with them in America, but not all pollsters are equal: this evaluation is useful. Note, in particular, that Rasmussen has a steady pro-Republican slant in its results, and has thus miscalled lots of major elections. Quinnipiac, Marist, Monmouth, NY Times, Washington Post, among others, generally do pretty accurate polling.
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ISIS spiritual leader says it is permissible to “rape comely gentile women”
Oh wait, actually it's the new Chief Rabbi of the IDF who said that. It's good to know that all religious crazies are the same at their core, though. (Thanks to Tom Carson for calling this to my attention.)
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…