July 2019
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New Books in July
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Death, Immortality, and Meaning in Life by John Martin Fischer (Oxford University Press, 2019). On Mercy by Malcolm Bull (Princeton University Press, 2019). The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, volume 14: Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Summer 1882-Winter 1883/84) trans.…
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Tuvel-style mobbing comes to sociology: young Marxist sociologist pens critque of Black Lives Matter and its academic reception…
…and is now being pilloried because–you guessed it–he’s white, didn’t cite scholars of the preferred identity, etc. etc. etc. The peer-reviewed article is here and the “open letter” of defamation is here. (For those who don’t recall the spectacular misconduct by some feminist philosophers in the Tuvel case, see here and here.) Black Lives Matter…
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Nathan Oseroff and Christa Peterson are not victims, they are wrongdoers
Kate Manne (yes that Kate Manne) is now on Twitter misrepresenting (or just lying about?) their abusive treatment of gay and feminist philosophers like Kathleen Stock, Holly Lawford-Smith, Leslie Green and others: for details, see here and here (the update). (Oseroff apologized for his misconduct, because that's what it was, but he's been dissembling about…
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Philosophy professor at Queen’s/Canada awarded 25K for university’s mistreatment of her
A strange and complex case; the finding against the university is certainly damning. (Thanks to Steve Yates for the pointer.)
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Amia Srinivasan to be next Chichele Professor of Social & Political Theory at Oxford
Professor Srinivasan, who has an eclectic set of interests ranging across epistemology, moral and political philosophy, and the history of philosophy (including post-Kantian European philosophy), is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oxford and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. There was, I am told, something of a struggle as to whether the Chichele…
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Part I of Arash Abizadeh’s “Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics” available free on-line until August 31
Professor Abizadeh, a political theorist at McGill, was awarded the 2019 Canadian Philosophical Association Biennial Book Prize (English), and in recognition Cambridge University Press has made part of the book available for free through the end of August at http://ow.ly/Rqvf50vcvPw. (Thanks to Victoria Willingale for the pointer.)
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Who said it? Philosopher or football manager
This is rather amusing, and not so easy! (It's mistitled as being about "Continental philosophers," but it's not.) (Thanks to Phil Gasper for the pointer.)
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Busy week, not much blogging
As some friends know, we're in the process of helping my father move into assisted living, a complicated business, including of course moving him out of the apartment he's occupied for the last eleven years. So there will be less new materials the next couple of weeks, although I'll try to get things, like memorial…
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In Memoriam: Tom Campbell (1938-2019)
Professor Campbell, who wrote widely in legal, political and moral philosophy (especially on rights and human rights), taught for more than twenty years in Scotland, at the Universities of Glasgow and Stirling, before joining the Australian National University law faculty in 1990. He retired in 2001, and was at the time of his death an…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Jerusalem, “Frustration,” 1972
Britsh hard rock band, that toured widely as an opening act for major hard rock acts in the early 1970s, this is the b-side of the one single from their one and only album:
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In Memoriam: Bryan Magee (1930-2019)
He may have been the best "popularizer" of philosophy of the last fifty years. We noted this lovely profile of him earlier this year. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear.
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The purge of academics in Turkey by the fascist Erdogan
A chilling account.
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Blast from the past: speaker controversies at the Society for Christian Philosophers and the Society for Analytical Feminism
Both back in 2016. Philosophy hasn't gotten much saner since!
David J. Gunkel «Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond» (MIT, 2023) Link:…