November 2017
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Law review articles influencing the Supreme Court
Articles by Matt Tokson (Utah), Will Baude (Chicago), and James Stern (William & Mary) were influencing the Justices yesterday when Carpenter was argued at SCOTUS; my colleague Lior Strahilevitz has the details.
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New Books in November
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: On Purpose by Michael Ruse (Princeton University Press, 2018). Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood by Ziyad Marar (Bloomsbury, 2018). The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 2: A New Vision by Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2018). Aristotle, De Anima, translated with introduction &…
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House and Senate tax plans and higher education
Useful chart of the differences from IHE. As we've noted already, the Senate plan would leave the tax-exempt status of tuition waivers and tuition benefits unchanged.
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Why admissions interviews persist at Oxford even though they’re useless and unfair
Philosopher Les Green (Oxford) comments.
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Republican Education Bill Would Boost Profits for Private Student Lenders and Raise Financing Costs for Students (Michael Simkovic)
House Republicans recently voted along party lines in favor of a tax bill that specifically targeted higher education institutions and students for tax hikes, while providing large tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals. The Wall Street Journal reports that House Republicans are proposing an additional higher education bill that would make the terms of federal…
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Philippa Foot’s journey away from emotivism
This is a nicely done, "popular" essay on Philippa Foot and bits of 20th-century moral philosophy. It caricatures emotivism in the usual ways that have become fashionable, and because of its British focus, it says nothing at all about Charles Stevenson. The author notes that, Moral judgments, according to the then-dominant view [when Foot's career…
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Myth-making at right-wing “Weekly Standard”: Roger Scruton is…
…"the best-known philosopher in the English-speaking world." I assume what they meant was the "best-known philosopher in The Weekly Standard offices," where apparently no one has heard of Peter Singer, Jurgen Habermas (who is better-known than Scruton even in the English-speaking world), Martha Nussbaum, Anthony Appiah, Charles Taylor and on and on. (Thanks to Robert…
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The continuing assault on the University of Nebraska by reactionary legislators
IHE has the latest. Apparently some of them are too dumb to even know how to navigate the English Department's website to see what courses are actually offered!
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Blast from the past: Goldberg on Rand
Still a classic.
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The importance of philosophy to science education
Philosopher Subrena Smith (New Hampshire) comments. (Thanks to Shane Wahl for the pointer.)
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Better not to be born
Profile of a nihilist, less interesting than Schopenhauer. He should also read some Nietzsche!
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New York Bar results from July 2017 exam
Blog Emperor Caron collects the results. Syracuse continues its outstanding performance, noted last year. And St. John's sees a big improvement.
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On guilt, shame, and bourgeois child-rearing..
…at The New York Times of course. They all need to read more Nietzsche.
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Blast from the past: the list of the “50 most influential living philosophers” is a fraud
It's been popping up again, so recall last year's post about its ideological agenda.
I’ve only just heard this news and am sorry to read it. I was taught as an undergrad and postgrad…