March 2018
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Philosopher Andy Clark (Edinburgh) profiled…
…in The New Yorker.
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Law firms imposing arbitration clauses on summer associates!
Adam Levitin (Georgetown) comments.
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Trump takes out Craiglist ad in search of legal counsel
Very funny. (Thanks to David Zimmerman for the pointer.)
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Trump takes out Craiglist ad in search of legal counsel
Very funny. (Thanks to David Zimmerman for the pointer.)
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Stanford’s Debra Satz to be the new editor of…
…Philosophy & Public Affairs. I am hopeful she'll broaden the journal's scope beyond "the usual suspects" in the Kant and Rawls mafias.
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Facebook, Google, and the threat to our freedom
Philip Pettit (Princeton/ANU) comments.
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Want to be virtuous? Get a blood test
Aristotle's view: Because moral virtues such as courage and moderation develop out of our natural character traits, which are largely the result of our physiology, which rests ultimately on the material composition of our blood, moral virtue has its origin in blood. If you have the right kind of blood — i.e., hot and thin,…
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Dangerous new bill could hurt taxpayers and make financing education more expensive (Michael Simkovic)
Higher Education could soon become substantially more expensive to finance. The federal government may reduce how much it lends to its most profitable borrowers—graduate and professional students—undermining the financial strength of the federal student lending program and reducing competition in the market for student loans. Borrowers could lose an important safety net that limits federal…
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O’Connor from Baylor back to Indiana
Timothy O'Connor, a leading defender of libertarianism about free will, has decided to return to the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington, after a year at Baylor University. Note that Prof. O'Connor was not on the Indiana faculty list for the 2017-18 PGR.
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Matherne from UC Santa Cruz to Harvard
Samantha Matherne (Kant, NeoKantianism, phenomenology, aesthetics), currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Santa Cruz has accepted a tenure-track offer from Harvard University, starting this fall; she took her PhD in philosophy from UC Riverside. (Prof. Matherne is also writing the book on Cassirer in my Routledge Philosophers series.)
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Breaking news: philosophers from unranked programs in their specialties think the PGR is…
…"unreliable," "weird," "misleading." I gather a team of crack psychologists is working on a study to try to explain what's going on here. It is mysterious.
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Great Obscure Rock ‘n’ Roll Albums, Masters Apprentices, “Choice Cuts,” 1971
The second remarkable album in our new series of obscure rock albums that somehow never made it into the "canon." We've noted this Australian band before, but their entire 1971 album repays many listenings:
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Entry-level hiring report for 2018
Professor Lawsky (Northwestern) is once again compiling the information.
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…