June 2017
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Kamm from Harvard to Rutgers
Frances Myrna Kamm (normative ethics, applied ethics), who holds appointments in both the Kennedy School and the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she will start in fall 2018.
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New Books in June
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Kierkaard's Muse: The Mystery of Regine Olsen by Joakim Garff (Princeton University Press, 2017). Einstein by Thomas Ryckman (Routledge Philosophers series, 2017). The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, 2nd edition by Paul B. Thompson (Routledge, 2017). The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy
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Florida Taliban harass plaintiff’s lawyer after federal court enforces First Amendment in an absolutely clear-cut case
Philosopher Brian Hood (West Florida) called to my attention this typically ugly behavior by the local Florida Taliban after a federal judge, obviously correctly, ruled against a public cross in Pensacola.
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How Imperial College London drove a full professor to suicide
This happened in 2014, but I only discovered it last week. Wikipedia has an account (with links to legit sources), including to the victimized professor's final post-mortem e-mail. How widespread is this craziness in the UK? Were any reforms undertaken at Imperial College in the wake of this scandal?
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Rank the top 25 U.S. PhD programs
Brit and Christopher will be running the real surveys in the fall, but it might be amusing to see how the top 25 looks in an unreliable Internet poll. I've included the top 36 programs from the 2014 PGR, and will post the list of the top 25. Have fun! UPDATE: So after about 24
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Law schools that made multiple lateral hires with tenure during 2016-17
Based on our running list, these law schools made at least three lateral hires with tenure this year: Georgetown University: Sheila Foster from Fordham University; Brad Snyder from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Urska Velikonja from Emory University. Rutgers University: Sahar Aziz from Texas A&M University; Rachel Godsil from Seton Hall University; Rosa Villazor from the
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Mills College ceases to be a liberal arts college (UPDATED AND CORRECTED)
They have axed their philosophy department and will fire its two tenured faculty. Let the lawsuits begin, the college deserves it for this egregious breach of contract. If there is fundraising to support legal remedies for the two tenured faculty in philosophy, I will be glad to both donate and to post about it here.
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Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy for 2017 to Fabian Wendt
Philosopher Peter Vallentyne (Missouri) asked me to share this announcement: Fabian Wendt, Bielefeld University has won the 2017 Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy for his paper “Rescuing Public Justification from Public Reason Liberalism”. There were 49 papers submitted for award consideration. Wendt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, specializing in political philosophy. Starting in October, 2017, he
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In Memoriam: William G. Demopoulos (1943-2017)
A leading contributor to philosophy of physics, math and logic, among other areas, he spent the bulk of his career at the University of Western Ontario. Western's memorial notice is here. (Thanks to Robert DiSalle for the information.)
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Faculty targetted by the right-wing rage machine (or threatened with violence by crazed students!)
IHE reviews recent cases and university responses. (I addressed this topic at CHE a few months back.) Kudos to Kent Syverud, President of Syracuse University and a law professor, for his response to attacks on a professor at Syracuse (as reported in the IHE article): Saying he’d received messages insisting that he “denounce, censor or
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