April 2018
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Two more senior hires for Kansas: Lascano and Raibley from Cal State/Long Beach
Marcy Lascano (early modern philosophy) and Jason Raibley (ethics), who are currently Professor and Associate Professor, respectively, of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, have accepted senior offers from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. Professor Dorsey, the Kansas Chair, points out that these are the third and fourth tenured hires…
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New Books in April
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Marriage: An Introduction by Raja Halwani (2nd edition, Routledge, 2018). Teaching Philosophy: A Guide by Steven M. Cahn (Routledge, 2018). Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction by Harry J. Gensler (3rd edition, Routledge, 2018). Think Again: How to Reason and Argue…
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Brain in a vat
Pig brain that is. (Thanks to Jim Klagge for the pointer.)
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More on the sexual harassment allegations against Fordham’s William Jaworski
This time in the NYT, though the NYT seems more interested in the fact that Fordham imposed minor discipline on students who took it upon themselves to announce to Jaworski's classes the allegations. Even if what they announced was, in this case, entirely true, it's clear why a school would want to discourage such vigilante…
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Peter Singer’s understanding of Marx is incompetent but certainly reveals him to be an apologist for capitalism
This is a follow-up to an earlier post, which I had hoped to provide sooner, but real life obligations intervened. Still, it is worth documenting that the quintessential moral philosopher of late capitalism–whose moralistic scolding may be the ultimate gift to the capitalist ruling class–has no business writing an "introduction" to Marx. A few examples…
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Michelle Wolf’s comedy routine that has the right-wing and media snowflakes going beserk
I didn't watch it when it happened, but had to take a look after seeing the media blather. I watchted only the first nine minutes and then the last few (she really sticks it to the media in the last minute or so); it's mostly quite funny and appropriately tasteless: Glenn Greenwald's comments are also…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Bloodrock, “Cheater,” 1970
Here's another from the great Bloodrock 2 album we first noted a few weeks ago:
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Wolff from KCL to Edinburgh
Jo Wolff (metaphysics, philosophy of science and physics), Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College, London, has accepted appointment as Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, starting in 2019.
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On boycotts
Philosopher Brandon Hogan (Howard) comments.
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Peter Singer doesn’t understand very much about Marx
He is interviewed at 3AM, though, unfortunately, the first part of the interview is on a subject on which Singer is really quite feeble, namely, Marx–apparently OUP has issued a new edition of his Marx: A Very Short Introduction and pressed him to do the interview for promotional purposes. Alas, like Michael Tanner's Nietzsche: A Very…
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The Leiter top ten in philosophy
Before I retired after 25 years as editor of the PGR, it would have been impolitic to make too explicit my own views about the best philosophy departments (though, being an impolitic guy, I've hinted at those views more than once): best not simply in terms of their peer reputation (though that is important, and…
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What is it like to be a philosopher? Tristan Haze edition
Here, courtesy of Clifford Sosis.
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The Windrush scandal in the UK
Anthony Appiah (NYU) is interviewed about it. I wonder whether his family's much better experience in 1950s Britain did not have a lot to do with their high class status.
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…