December 2018
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Paul Russell (UBC/Lund) on Bernard Williams…
…as part of the TLS "Footnotes to Plato" series.
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An open letter in support of philosophy at Hull from the British Philosophical Association and Department Heads around the UK
Here. (Thanks to Joe Morrison for the pointer.)
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A biologist excorciates the SUNY Albany President for slashing the humanities, back in 2010
Still relevant and worth reading today, alas. (Thanks to Laurie Paul for the pointer.)
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Another way in which USNews.com runs American legal education
The market for transfers: by taking large numbers of transfers, schools can admit a smaller and more selective 1L class, which is the only set of credentials (LSAT and GPA) that USNews.com counts. The school makes up the lost tuition revenue from the smaller class with the transfers.
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Philosophy at SUNY-Fredonia under threat
Philosopher Neil Feit (SUNY Fredonia) writes: SUNY Fredonia President Virginia Horvath has identified our BA program in Philosophy, my department's only major, as a candidate for elimination as a cost savings measure. If you are willing to post something about it on your blog, we would be grateful. Here are some links with recent developments:…
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Jeffers on Du Bois
Philosopher Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie) talks about Du Bois over at Elucidations. Professor Jeffers is writing the volume on Du Bois for my Routledge Philosophers series, and I anticipate it will become an essential resource for scholars and students.
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The continued rise of non-JD enrollment in law schools
Usefully documented here. The explanation for the rise is simple: non-JD students (e.g., LLM students, but also, as in the case of Arizona, undergraduates taking courses taught by law faculty for an undergraduate law-related degree) generate tuition revenue, but are invisible to the masters of American legal education at USNews.com: their numerical credentials don't show…
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McKinsey responds to New York Times hit piece (Michael Simkovic)
The consulting firm McKinsey is a leading employer of graduates of elite law schools, business schools, medical schools, and other professional programs. The New York Times recently ran a piece attempting to link McKinsey to regimes that abuse human rights. McKinsey's response appears below. Readers of this blog are probably familiar with how uneven in…
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The court ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act
This is a good explanation of why it's an outrageous decision (the authors are, respectively, a libertarian and a liberal expert on statutory interpretation and administrative law)
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Saudia Arabia to now offer philosophy in secondary school
Hassan Alsharif, a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Kansas, writes: I'm originally from Saudi Arabia. Teaching Philosophy in Saudi Arabia has been absent in all levels of education for some religious reasons. [Earlier this week] was a historical day over there. The government decided to allow teaching one course of philosophy for…
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Return of the XPhil blog
Justin Sytsma (Victoria U-Wellington) writes: "Joe Ulatowski, Dan Weijers, and I have recently revived the x-phi blog under the auspices of the Australasian Experimental Philosophy Group: xphiblog.com. Edouard has recently put up a post on the Geography of Philosophy project. And other new content is lined up over the next week."
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More on the Kesan case at Illinois
This time in CHE, with additional details about the complainants and Professor Kesan's creepy behavior. The title of the article suggest something "went wrong," but I confess that's not obvious beyond the fact that it took far too long for the investigation to conclude. His behavior, which is damning in its own right, doesn't appear…
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Interview with Shelly Kagan (Yale) in the Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics
Here. A failed rabbi becomes a moral philosopher! And lots of other intersting stuff.
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The web page that can’t exist
Amusing, courtesy of philosopher Brian Rabern (Edinburgh). (Thanks to David Brady for the pointer.)
The Wisconsin legislature made UW system implement post-tenure (5-year) reviews several years ago. The statutory requirements were fed into the…