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    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

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    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

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Best of the summer blog

Brian Leiter

For those returning to blog reading, here are some highlights from the summer you might enjoy:

June

"Important"=expresses the "correct" view

UK academics protest ongoing defamation of 'A Woman's Place UK' by some trans activists

Blaming the victim is apparently OK when the accused is a feminist literary theorist (the post that started it all)

This isn't the first time 'theory' professors tried to bully a school out of punishing sexual harassment:  Derrida did it too!

In Memoriam:  Stanley Cavell

Nietzsche:  The Truth is Terrible, at TLS

University of Chicago Law Review podcast on Title IX issues

July

Claremont Graduate University shuts its philosophy department, terminates two tenured faculty

Self-help Nietzsche?

Wisconsin Supreme Court sides with Marquette professor whose contractual right to academic freedom was violated

Philosopher Yitzhak Melamed victim of anti-semitic attack in Bonn–and then a victim of police brutality

Most pressing issues confronting the academic profession of philosophy in the US currently

'New Infantilism' comes to The Nation

$20 million gift to UCLA Philosophy

August

Marx, "cultural Marxism," identity politics, our capitalist future

Do young philosophers really need to be on social media for professional reasons?

"Disagreement, Anti-Realism about Reasons, and Inference to the Best Explanation"

Philosopher's Annual:  10 best articles from 2017

Avital Ronell affair makes NY Times, which adds new details to the case

Latest developments in the Ronell case

Today in 'Avital in Wonderland' (Jon Wiener article)

Philosophy as understood by Aristotle and Hegel

The New Yorker piece on the Ronell case

Huppauf on Ronell, Part II

Literary scholar Marjorie Perloff on the Ronell case

 

 

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