January 2019
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Philosopher Peter Boghossian at Portland State facing possible sanction for “research misconduct” in connection with the “grievance studies” hoax
MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 9–UPDATED IHE has the details .(Earlier coverage here). This twitter thread by someone knowledgeable about IRB and research ethics makes a pretty good case that what he did does not fall within the purview of the IRB at his institution, which does seem to me the crucial question. The University…
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Blast from the past: what is philosophy, again (Peter Hacker’s take, with discussion)
Back in 2013. (Vide Ken Taylor's reaction.)
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Uncomplicated
Here's something that's not complicated: Justin Weinberg (South Carolina) has been a consistent opponent of academic freedom and freedom of speech, from the case of Laura Kipnis at Northwestern to the case of John McAdams at Marquette. As the cyber-cheerleader for the New Infantilism, he consistently favors punishing people for speech offensive to the children,…
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Philosopher on “Jeopardy”
Back in 1985, it's Jay Rosenberg, late of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Is the tide finally turning on the New Infantilists and “thought police” in academic philosophy?
I get an increasing number of messages like the following (in this case from a recently tenured philosopher), which are a hopeful sign I think: I have been meaning for a while now to write you to say that I owe you an apology for some disparaging things I've said about you in the past,…
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Syracuse admits first class of (mostly) on-line JD students
Interesting development.
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“Legal Positivism as a Realist Theory of Law”
Rough draft here, ultimately forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism.
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John Finnis and Hastings Rashdall
Some interesting (and amusing) observations from legal philosopher Les Green (Oxford). I have one small disgreement, I think, with Green. He writes: Consider whether, when Hastings Rashdall retired from New College, Oxford, they should have gone looking for a replacement to defend his articulate, philosophical form of racism, or whether they should have kept Rashdall…
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Quantum physics and objective reality
Philosopher Chris Timpson (Oxford) and physicists discuss.
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Another day, another group of students with open contempt for academic freedom
Oxford students, apparently having discovered that legal philosopher and reactionary Catholic John Finnis has written foolish and sometimes quite ugly things about gay people for years, are now demanding that he be removed from teaching. Finnis would, in his teaching, have to abide by anti-discrimination rules and law, but there is no allegation that he…
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Fascist Bolsonaro’s foreign policy will be anti-Wittgensteinian!
Who would have guessed? (Thanks to Chris Bertram for the pointer.)
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii