April 2019
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Cariani from Northwestern to Maryland
Fabrizio Cariani (philosophy of language, philosophical logic, epistemology), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, to begin in the 2020-21 academic year. That's the second major senior hire for the Maryland Department in philosophy of language and cognate…
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New Books in April
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Saving People from the Harm of Death edited by Espen Gamlund & Carl Tollef Solberg (Oxford University Press, 2019). Happiness by Alain Badiou (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Medieval Philosophy: A Multicultural Reader edited by Bruce V. Foltz (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). The Future of Academic Freedom…
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Open letter protesting the defunding of philosophy and sociology in Brazil
It is available for signatures here. I have signed, and I encourage readers to sign as well. (Thanks to Sergio Tennenbaum for the pointer.)
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Wallace from USC to Pittsburgh
David Wallace, a leading figure in philosophy of physics who is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, has accepted the Mellon Chair at the University of Pittsburgh, with appointments in History & Philosophy of Science and in Philosophy. This should move Pitt into the very top ranks for philosophy of physics…
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One philosopher among 2019 Carnegie Fellows
JeeLoo Liu (Cal State-Fullerton) has won support for a project on Confucian robot ethics. The full list of 2019 fellows is here.
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Avital Ronell will be back in the classroom this fall…
…teaching from experience, as it were. (Thanks to many different readers who sent this along.)
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Ontario goes crazy, sets out to destroy its excellent universities
The Canadian province of Ontario has some of Canada's, and the world's, most successful research universities, including the University of Toronto, Queen's University in Kingston, McMaster University, York University in Toronto, and the University of Western Ontario. But the provincial government has now been taken over by neoliberal yahoos, and this is their plan for…
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Stanford University to stop subsidizing its university press
IHE has the details. The IHE article says, bizarrely, that philosophy is one of the leading areas SUP publishes in, but that's rather obviously not true. The only notable publication in that area I can think of are new English translations of Nietzsche's collected works, which have been slowly trickling out.
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More anti-intellectual mischief from the Brazilian fascist Bolsonaro
He plans to stop providing federal funding for the study of philosophy and sociology.
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Texas moves to regulate male masturbation
About time this threat to all the future humans in a man's semen got some protection.
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2019 Rescher Medal in Systematic Philosophy to Columbia’s Philip Kitcher
I was asked to share the following announcement, which I'm pleased to do: The University of Pittsburgh announces its award of the 2019 Nicholas Rescher Medal for Systematic Philosophy to Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Philip Kitcher has published extensively in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology,…
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Congratulations to Chicago Alumni and Fellows who secured tenure-track jobs this year on the teaching market (UPDATED)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 22 Another strong year for Chicago alums and Fellows on the teaching market. Although there were clearly more schools hiring this year, demand was remarkably weak in certain areas, like intellectual property. Happily, almost all our candidate secured offers, and several secured multiple offers. Here they are (with one omission…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Roy Young, “I’m a Loner,” 1973
British rock musician who performed and recorded in many different genres over the course of nearly fifty years, although with not much success on this side of the Atlantic. This was the b-side of a 1973 single:
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“Modern Naturalisms: Hume, Spinoza, Nietzsche”
Aaron Garrett and Paul Katsafanas conceived a great conference, from which I expect to learn a lot today and tomorrow:
“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”