October 2016
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Speaking of racist right-wingers…
…here's an interesting Mother Jones profile of Richard Spencer.
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It’s official: “RightlyConsidered” is not only a boring litany of the usual right-wing Christian prejudices…
…plus pathetic sexist tripe, but it also has its own resident raving anti-Semite, one "Jacques," whom no other contributor to that blog appears to have criticized for his insane bigotry. Some quotes from comments he's posted on that sorry blog: Since the time of Marx through the many Bolshevik mass murderers like Kaganovich through to the present…
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Best PhD Programs for Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics for 2016-17
Following up on this post, and once again taking account of faculty changes since the fall 2014 PGR, here's an attempted update of the top (3.5 or higher) programs for Philosophy of Art for 2016-17, again by rough "clusters" of peer programs: Group 1 (1-5) City University of New York Graduate Center New York University University of British…
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The list of faculty changes since the fall 2014 PGR…
…has been updated with some recent moves. I had been moving that post to the front, but doing so changed the URL which then affects the embedded links in the PGR specialty ranking updates (which will be continuing soon). So henceforth, I will occasionally just post a link to it when there are some new…
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A prominent Christian philosopher comes out in favor of same-sex marriage
Nicholas Wolterstorff.
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2 of 10 law schools randomly audited by ABA…
…were found to be well below the required compliance level with ABA rules regarding the reporting of employment data. Two others were slightly below the required compliance level of 95%.
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How long after the “meat market” (the FRC) before a candidate hears from schools about callbacks?
Conventional wisdom that I've endorsed before is that job seekers get most of their callback interviews within the two weeks after the FRC. "Most" here means that after those two weeks, a candidate who got four or five callbacks in the first two weeks might pick up one more, and might even pick it up rather late in…
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Brading from Notre Dame to Duke
Katherine Brading (history and philosophy of physics and modern philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Duke University, where she will begin in 2017-18.
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“The Epistemology of the Hermeneutics of Suspicion”
My keynote address from the Bonn Summer School on "The Hermeneutics of Suspicion" from last June is now on-line courtesy of Bonn's Internationales Zentrum für Philosophie NRW.
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Rapko on Geuss
Against "normativism."
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Philosopher John Cottingham (emeritus, Reading) and others are…
…"In Search of the Self."
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Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins under threat (and a petition)
A philosophy graduate student at Johns Hopkins University writes: I am a member of the philosophy department at Johns Hopkins University writing to alert you to some rather disturbing events happening in the university. In short, the university’s administration is attempting to shut down an academic department without transparency, due-process, or clear justification. The department…
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The new “conservative” philosophy blog…
…seems to be going downhill fast (ahem). Unabashed sexist tripe like this didn't use to appear even at the metablogs back in the day!
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“The Calvinist Roots of American Anti-Intellectualism”
Very interesting read.
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…