March 2019
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Contrapoints (Natalie Wynne) purports to take on Gender Critical Feminism…
…in a new video on YouTube. She makes a few good points, and is funny as usual, but it's not in the end a good-faith engagement. Among other rhetorical tricks, she associates (and cites) garbage from Reddit (!) threads on transgender issues with the Gender Critical position, but nowhere actually engages actual arguments of Gender…
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New Books in March
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: The Power of Cute by Simon May (Princeton University Press, 2019). The Moral Psychology of Gratitude edited by Robert Roberts & Daniel Telech (Routledge, 2019). Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives edited by Allan McCay & Michael Sevel (Routledge, 2019). Plato: Charmides trans.…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Sir Lord Baltimore,” “Kingdom Come,” 1970
Another tune from Brooklyn-bred proto-heavy metal band Sir Lord Baltimore, the tilte track of their debut album:
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Robert Holub on Nietzsche
Strictly for those interested in Nietzsche.
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New tenure-track appointments and postdocs for 2018-19
Lots of new postings at PhilJobs; if you've recently accepted a job or post-doc, post your information there.
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De Cruz from Oxford Brookes to Saint Louis University
Helen De Cruz (philosophy of religion, philosophy of cognitive science, experimental philosophy), Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she will take up the Danforth Chair in Philosophy this August. (Thanks to Scott Ragland for the…
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Jorjani vs. NJIT update
According to this rather brief news report, the defamation claim was dismissed (as expected), but it looks like his other claims may be going forward (which would make sense given that they turn on real factual issues yet to be determined).
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Twitter “believe it or not,” part 2
Philosopher Rachel McKinnon (Charleston) would like "cis" women to "die in a grease fire." (I've been on the road, but various folks have been tweeting this at me over the last 24 hours.) UPDATE: Several readers report that Professor McKinnon's account has been suspended for "abusive" behavior, which is hardly surprising–the only thing that is…
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9th annual Bonn summer school on German philosophy
This year the theme is "hermeneutics." I don't usually post announcements of summer schools, but this one–organized by my friend and part-time colleague Michael Forster and Markus Gabriel–I've participated in for several years (not this year, however), and I do comment it to interested students. The deadline for applications is April 1!
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Moral philosophers aren’t especially ethical in their behavior
No surprise there. (Thanks to Robert McGarvey for the pointer.)
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“Ask a philosopher” on the radio…
…in New York.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy “visualized”
I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but it looks neat! (Thanks to Vincent Abruzzo for the pointer.)
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The Mueller Report
Two years ago, I noted that, "I've had a lot to say about Trump, not much about the Trump-Russia sideshow that's been raging in Washington, which has seemed to me either a non-story or a distraction. Trump's admiration for Putin is easy to explain purely in terms of his psychological disturbance, without recourse to any…
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Jason Jorjani sued New Jersey Institute of Technology last year
Political theorist Ronald Beiner called to my attention that Jason Jorjani–whose charming political views we have covered at various intervals–apparently did not have his lectureship renewed in the wake of the NYT expose and has since sued the university and various officials there for violating his First Amendment rights and defaming him. I doubt he…
This is a load of cobblers. Philosophers need to read more Searle & watch less 2001. Computers, however fancy, are…