January 2019
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Links to all the “Most Cited” law faculty lists for 2013-2017
These were posted, starting last August. Here's all the links in a single post for the convenience of readers. (You might start with this post: In a USNews.com world, don't confuse citations with quality.) All these lists are for the period 2013-2017, inclusive. The parenthetical number indicates the number of most-cited faculty listed. Top 50…
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Kamala Harris is not a progressive candidate…
…as this list of her "major" proposals shows. My friend Scott Shapiro nailed it on Twitter, as usual. I hope she fades fast in favor of an actual New Deal liberal, and takes her Clintonesque blather back to the Senate.
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Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State) talks with Oliver Traldi (Notre Dame)…
…at Meaning of Life TV, although it is misleadingly titled as "Leftism in Academic Philosophy" (the title was not chosen by Kaufman): the current "identity politics" mania afflicting parts of philosophy has nothing to do with "leftism," which concerns human liberation. Vide Marx, "On the Jewish Question." Things get quite salty in the interview around…
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BJHP announces 2018 Article prize
Philosopher Alix Cohen (Edinburgh), Deputy Editor of the BJHP, asked me to share the following announcement: The committee made up of all the editors of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy has awarded the Rogers Prize for 2018 for the best article published in the BJHP last year to Michael Gill (Arizona) for ‘Shaftesbury on life as…
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Rostron & Levit’s guide to submitting to law reviews, updated again
They asked me to share the announcement, which I'm happy to do: We just updated our charts about law journal submissions, expedites, and rankings from different sources for the Spring 2019 submission season covering the 203 main journals of each law school. We have created hyperlinks for each law review to take you directly to…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Buffalo, “Suzie Sunshine,” 1972
Australian hard rock outfit, this is from their debut album–I'm sure I'll be featuring more from them in the future.
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Conference on the work of Bernard Williams at Lund this June
I'll be talking about Williams and Nietzsche, at what is shaping up to be a very interesting conference: further program information is here (including about how to register, for free).
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How the federal government shutdown fiasco in America ends
The monster-child will continue his tantrum, and the Democrats will hold fast on refusing to fund the idiotic border wall. But the shutdown will start to affect things that matter, even to Republicans, like air travel. At that point–and we are surely nearing it–enough Republicans will override a veto and vote to reopen the government. …
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Hackers discover Gettier
A hacker wrote a piece on the Gettier problem, which then generated a big discussion in the hacker on-line community! (Thanks to Vincent Abruzzo for the pointers.)
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Blast from the past: Biology textbooks under attack in Texas
Way back in August 2003.
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IHE on the erroneous job ad specifying the candidate sought
Some more details (not many) about this. UPDATE: Jeff Speaks, Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Notre Dame, writes with useful information regarding the erroneous job ad: Obviously you are correct — it is a very weird ad — and so I wanted to send you a clarification. The position in question…
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Who is Sam Duncan and why does he think I stole his milk money?
The sixth law of cyber-dynamics is: on any blog with unmoderated comment threads, there will be no correlation between those who regularly post comments and those who actually have something worthwhile to say. Weinberg's "safe space" philosophy blog suffers from several regular commenters who illustrate this law, but the only one who interests me today…
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Catholic jihad
Speaking of reactionary Catholics (e.g.), here is another, law professor Adrian Vermeule (Harvard) (he wasn't always one–when I wanted to hire him at Texas twenty years ago, he was simply a run-of-the-mill legal conservative): Progressive liberalism has its own cruel sacraments—especially the shaming and, where possible, legal punishment of the intolerant or illiberal—and its own…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii