May 2019
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New LSE philosophy podcast, “Out of the Vat”
Episode 1 features philosopher of physics Steven French (Leeds).
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An episode of HiPhi nation on the transgender debates in the UK
[LINK FIXED] It begins, unfortunately, with some silly sociology, which reports the breathtaking discovery (who would have guessed?) that the public is more concerned with trans women entering female-only spaces, than with trans men entering male-only spaces. Now one might have thought everyone knew that we have sex-segregated spaces importantly, but not only, for the…
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Another triumph of infantile stupidity and faux outrage, this one at Harvard…
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–UPDATED …as the university caves in to calls to oust a clinical law professor from his role as head of one of the residential colleges. Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy made all the right points about this a couple of months ago. UPDATE: A NYT story with more details. We're learning…
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Great moments in covers of “Oh Well”: Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes
This may be the best version after the original:
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Some questions raised by the “white paper” on “publication ethics [sic]”
From a post-doc philosopher elsewhere, concerning the latest mischief: 1) Some of the authors have actively worked to marginalize the view that transracialism can be similar to transgenderism. What can we do to protect, engage with, and make more visible views that are marginalized by marginalized groups? 2) Apparently, there is such a thing as…
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Twitter “believe it or not,” part 4: juvenile jackass confronts adult on-line
This episode is unusual only because an adult, the philosopher Leslie Green (Oxford & Queen's U) intervened after this grad student at Queen's had the outburst, below, after he insulted me out of the blue on Twitter and I blocked him: Mr. Jokic deleted his stupid tweet when confronted by an adult. But the real…
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On citation ethics and other topics from the “white paper” on “publication ethics [sic]”
Philosopher Mohan Matthen (Toronto) writes: It seemed that one aim of the White Paper exercise was to widen the scope of ethical concern, whether or not the authors were searching for vindication of the petitioners’ behaviour re Tuvel (though at times it was hard to resist the impression that this exactly was the aim.) But…
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More mischief afoot at the APA: there’s a vote to change the membership rules, giving the Executive Director Amy Ferrer authority to admit non-philosophers to the APA
A philosopher elsewhere writes: Thanks for the post on the APA elections. I wouldn’t have known they were occurring otherwise! It turns out, however, that the voting is not just about officers. There are also several proposals for changing the APA’s Bylaws. One of the items proposes to open up APA membership to people who may…
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More from attorney/philosopher John Bogart on the “white paper” on “publication ethics [sic]”
UPDATED WITH SECTION 3 MAY 9, 2019 Many thanks to Dr. Bogart for taking the trouble to write up the following, which he kindly gave permission to share: I have organized my comments into three categories: (1) Administrative issues, (2) Methodological Issues, and (3) Substantive Issues. Administrative Issues: There is no information on the…
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APA Member-at-large candidates for the Board of Officers: voting is now open
A philosopher elsewhere writes: Voting is now open at the APA. I saw this list of three candidates for member at large: https://www.apaonline.org/page/atlrg2019 I was wondering if you had an insight about which candidate would be best for those of us (who are I think in the majority) who don’t like what the APA blog…
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The “white paper” on “publication ethics [sic]” eviscerated
This is amusing; an excerpt: If you liked the Thieves’ Guild’s guide to the ethics of personal property, and if you found yourself moved to tears by the Arsonist’s Society’s guide to the ethics of firefighting, you will adore the Put-the-Shiv-in-Rebecca-Tuvel Gang’s guide to publishing ethics. Yes, three out of five of the authors of…
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Johns Hopkins students protest creation of armed police force
I confess I'm astonished that Johns Hopkins doesn't already have one, given their location.
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AAUP criticizes Vermont Law School’s revocation of faculty tenure
Correctly so, as far as I can see.
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A new paper on Foucault, genealogy, politcial realism, and the epistemic status of the human sciences
It's a descendant of a much older, unpublished paper, but this new and expanded version will appear in an issue of Inquiry on "Genealogy and Political Philosophy"; the abstract: Foucault’s corpus is animated by an ethical or political impulse, namely, to liberate individuals from a kind of oppression from which they suffer. This oppression, however,…
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Some more interesting comments on the “white paper” on “publication ethics [sic]”
John Bogart, an attorney who also has a PhD in philosophy, kindly gave permission to share his quite interesting and revealing comments about the "white paper," which he read through: There's not enough information about the composition of the focus groups to assess the value of the reported comments. It is not, e.g., the number…
Don’t click the transcript – it’s a mis-transcription that makes Harvey sound unhinged. The bit of it that’s visible without…