August 2019
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Dirty Tricks, “Too Much Wine,” 1975
Another strong number from the debut album of this short-lived British rock band:
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New Books in August
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum (Harvard University Press, 2019). Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt by Alec Ryrie (Harvard University Press, 2019). Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood by Ziyad Marar (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Witcraft: The Invention…
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Philosophers behaving bizarrely in cyberspace: Dan Hicks edition
Dan Hicks has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, and is taking up a tenure-track position at the University of California, Merced this year. Congratulations to him! But for reasons known only to his therapist, or perhaps known to no one, he decided to attack Robert Paul Wolff (at Professor Wolff's…
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In Memoriam: Norman Lefstein (1937-2019)
Professor Lefstein taught for many years at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill before serving nearly fifteen years as Dean at the McKinney School of Law at Indiana University, Indianapolis, where he was emreitus. The McKinney memorial notice is here.
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What can be done about Boris Johnson’s attempted coup?
This is informative (via MIchael Rosen on Facebook).
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Several senior hires for the Australian Catholic University-Melbourne, including Hawthorne from USC
Readers may recall that the ACU's new Dianoia Institute of Philosophy recruited Stephen Finlay (metaethics) from USC and has now made a number of other senior hires (faculty coming in as "Senior Research Fellows" or, in the case of Hawthorne, "Professor"), including: Samuel Baron (philosophy of time, philosophy of mathematics, metaphilosophy) from the University of…
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Virtual Dissertation Groups, once again
Philosopher Joshua Smart (Ohio State) asked me to share this announcement: Virtual Dissertation Groups VDG is a free service that connects graduate students to provide feedback on dissertation work. Members are grouped with two others working in the same general area of philosophy. About once a month, one member sends some work (3-6K words) to…
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Talks, syllabi, CV, links etc…
…are all updated at my personal page, for anyone who's interested. I look forward to meeting readers at some of my talks this coming academic year!
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On the replication crisis in psychology
An interesting read; from the conclusion: The replication crisis, if nothing else, has shown that productivity is not intrinsically valuable. Much of what psychology has produced has been shown, empirically, to be a waste of time, effort, and money. As Gibson put it: our gains are puny, our science ill-founded. As a subject, it is…
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“Nietzsche’s Naturalism: Neither Liberal Nor Illiberal”
This is a penultimate version of my contribution to the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism, being edited by Mario Del Caro and David Macarthur.
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Human rights vs. laudable aspirations
Philosopher John Tasioulas (KCL) comments.
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As I first observed more than five years ago…
…philosopher Rachel McKinnon (Charleston) is unhinged, and everything since has served to confirm that, including the ugliness noted here. However, it is not the job of the College of Charleston to police her public statements. Her public speech, albeit tasteless and often worse, is not unlawful, and is none of the College's business. UPDATE: A…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…