October 2018
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Interviews with philosophers of action
Lots of them at this website! (Link now fixed.)
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More on the allegations against Yale’s Jed Rubenfeld
A more detailed account from Slate. This passage sums up the accounts pretty well: These students, alumni, and faculty all had slightly different reads on exactly how out of line Rubenfeld’s alleged behavior was (and some faculty members had no firsthand knowledge of it at all). Some described Rubenfeld as flirtatious and line-crossing; others called…
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Nominations are currently open for APA leadership positions–until October 31
A propos this, Professor Kaufman tells me that one correspondent wrote him pointing out that the APA is presently accepting nominations for leadership positions. Nominators and nominees must be APA members. The philosopher who wrote Kaufman suggested that it might be good to identify a slate of candidates concerned with some of the issues we…
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University of Illinois law professor Jay Kesan found to have violated Univeristy’s Code of Conduct, but not to have violated sexual harassment rules
Details of the case, which dates from 2015, are here. A colleague at Illinois asked me to share a statement issued by the law faculty protesting the insufficient sanctions imposed in this case: Download JOINT STATEMENT OF LAW PROFESSORS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS I've never before seen such a damning statement issued by law…
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How long before Trump says openly, ‘Yeah, I’m proud to be white’?
Can't be that long.
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Readers, where (in what country) do you live?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY: Thanks to the more than 1100 readers who have already voted; if you've not yet participated, please do so! Thank you. ========= I chose particular countries to list based on the data I do have about where readers come from; apologies to those readers whose individual countries are not listed. …
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‘Philosophy of Hunting’…
…at St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta. As they say, philosophy is about everything in principle! (Thanks to Robert McGarvey for the pointer.)
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Not-so-crypto fascists in Hungary eliminate “Gender Studies” programs in universities
IHE has the details. Domestic fascists are already expressing pleasure about this, since "academic freedom," well who cares? If the EU doesn't kick out Hungary and Poland, it will really turn out to be a toothless entity.
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$25 million gift to Stanford Law School…
…to fund the "Global Law Program."
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Regarding an alternative to the APA
A propos our earlier discussion, philosopher Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State) has volunteered to be the point person for those interested in working on this. You can reach him at DanielKaufman-at-MissouriState-dot-edu. I'll of course post updates and information as things progress.
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Schools with the highest percentage of tenured faculty on one or more of the most-cited lists by specialty, 2013-2017 (CORRECTED)
Since August, and drawing on the Sisk data, I have produced lists of the most-cited tenured faculty in 20 areas of specialization: corporate law & securities regulation; constitutional law; commercial law (incl. contracts and bankruptcy); tax; property; torts & insurance; civil procedure; family law; legal history; law & economics, law & philosophy; law & social…
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On living with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Read this essay. Very honest and illuminating. (I knew the author when he was a PhD student in philosophy at UT Austin. He was a smart young man, facing a lot of challenges that he describes briefly in this essay.)
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Physics and reality
Philosopher Nancy Cartwright (Durham/UC San Diego) discusses with a physicist as well as the owner of IAITV, Hilary Lawson, who really puts himself in far too many of these discussions with experts.
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Reader mail
This one was quite funny, from longtime reader Michael Bramley in the U.K.: As a longtime reader of your philosophy blog (10+ years) I wanted to write a note of thanks for your tireless coverage of these permanently furious, bloodthirsty dogmatists on the Left that give the rest of us (on the same side!) such…
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Blast from the past: More Nonsense Rankings
Back in 2014, but, remarkably, some people continue to produce similarly misleading "information." Why are some people so indifferent to the well-being of undergraduate students? (And see this and this.)
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…