December 2017
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2017 in review, second quarter: April, May, June
Here were some of the most popular posts from the second quarter of the year: Singer and McMahan on the Stubblefield case (April) Disability Studies appears to be an advocacy field, not a scholarly one: the case of Anna Stubblefield (April) Kipnis on the David Barnett case at Colorado (April) Hellie on the "atmosphere of…
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2017-18 PGR Canadian Top 5
Professor Brogaard and I released the U.S. Top 50 results of the PRG survey, the top 25 programs in the Anglophone word, and the top 15 programs in the U.K. Below the fold we offer the top 5 programs in Canada. Like before, the overall mean is listed while the median, mode, and confidence intervals,…
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2017 in review, first quarter: January, February March
Here were some of the most popular posts from the first quarter of the year: Parfit's last public lecture (January) Most cited Anglophone philosophy books published since WWII (according to Google Scholar) (January) What is up with the University of California's "personal history" statement for PhD admissions (January) Tenured moral grandstander attacks vulnerable junior faculty…
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Plutocracy watch: inherited fortunes should be confiscated to maximize utlity
A case study. Happy Xmas to Xmas-celebrators. And to the non-Xmas celebrators, God bless you!
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Livin’ Blues, “L.B. Boogie,” 1972
This Dutch blues-rock band was formed in 1967, and enjoyed their heyday (in Europe) in the late 1960s through the early 1970s, though a much different line-up continues to the present (they never broke through on this side of the Atlantic). Here's their trademark "boogie" (great use of the harp!):
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Leftow from Oxford to Rutgers
Brian Leftow, a leading philosopher of religion and scholar of medieval philosophy, who is currently Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford University, will become the inaugural holder of the William P. Alston Chair in Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, effective fall 2018. He will also be Director…
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In Memoriam: István Mészáros (1930-2017)
This is a bit belated: Professor Mészáros, a leading Marxist philosopher who was forced to leave Hungary after the Soviet crackdown and later taught for some thirty years at the University of Sussex, died October 1. There is an informative obituary here. (Thanks to Cora Diamond for the pointer.)
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Top Ancient Philosophy Programs 2017-18 PGR
The full results for the 2017-18 Philosophical Gourmet Report, will appear online soon. Here is a preview of the “top ten” for Ancient Philosophy. Ancient Philosophy Group 1 (1-4) (rounded mean of 4.5) (median, mode) Oxford University (4.75, 5)Princeton University (4.5, 4)University of Toronto (4.5, 5) Yale University (4.5, 5)
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Summer seminar in philosophy at U of Colorado/Boulder…
…for undergraduates thinking about graduate school is now accepting applications.
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What is your opinion of abortion?
So let's see if other moral issues produce a high level of convergence among philosophical readers. What is your opinion of abortion in the first two trimesters? It is a moral abomination, a "Holocaust" of unborn humans. It is morally wrong It is morally neutral It is morally justifiable (or permissible)…
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Reader opinions of “factory farming”
This morning's poll got over 600 votes in only a few hours, which may mean it's a bit skewed towards those with the strongest opinions about this. But here are the results: What is your opinion of so-called "factory farming"? Selection Votes It is a moral abomination, an animal "Holocaust" 27% 167 It…
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2017-18 PGR U.K. Top 15
Professor Brogaard and I released the U.S. Top 50 results of the PRG survey and the top 25 programs in the Anglophone word. Below the fold we offer the top 15 programs in the U.K. Like before, the overall mean is listed while the median, mode, and confidence intervals, along with the full results, will be…
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Interim Dean Song Richardson at UC Irvine named Dean
Her colleague Rick Hasen has the news.
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Garbage social science watch: racial resentment drives economic anxiety, not the reverse
This popular article summarizes a number of articles purporting to support the finding in the title of this post. The problem is that none of them have a sensible measure of "economic anxiety." That people are employed or currently making a good income does not mean they do not suffer from economic anxiety. Most people…
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…