August 2019
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Philosophy, and tenured faculty jobs, under threat at St. Cloud State University
I was asked to share this statement about ominous developments at St. Cloud State University; I encourage readers to e-mail the administrators mentioned at the end: The philosophy department at St. Cloud State University is under threat and we are appealing to the philosophy community for help. The administration is proposing retrenchment of faculty in…
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Chicago Alumni and Fellows on the law teaching market, 2019-20
MOVING TO FRONT–ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 7 This post is strictly for schools that expect to do hiring this year. In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me at bleiter@uchicago.edu to get a copy of the narrative profiles of our candidates, including hyperlinks to their homepages. All these candidates will be in…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Hard Stuff, “Jay Time,” 1972
We haven't featured this British hard rock band, spun off from Atomic Rooster, in a good while; here's the lead number from their debut album:
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In Memoriam: Barry Stroud (1935-2019)
MOVING TO FRONT (ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 10)–UPDATED A longtime member of the faculty at Berkeley, Professor Stroud wrote widely and influentially on both historical and systematic topics, including skepticism, Hume, Wittgenstein, and realism. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear. UPDATE: Some charming photos courtesy of one of his daughters. ANOTHER: A…
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Philosopher’s Annual: Ten top articles from the 2018 literature
Editor Patrick Grim just shared this announcement with the nominating editors: The Philosopher’s Annual volume 38 from the literature of 2018 Mark J. Alfano, J. Adam Carter & Marc Cheong, “Technological Seduction and Self-Radicalization,” from the Journal of the American Philosophical Association Jc Beall, “The Simple Argument for Subsclassical Logic,” from Philosophical Issues Selim Berker,…
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Legally, UK academics lack tenure…but what does that really mean?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 12–UPDATED This is useful, from philosopher Michael Otsuka (LSE). (He tells me it was vetted by employment lawyers.) One thing he doesn't mention, but is worth noting, is that when tenure was abolished by Thatcher, academic freedom received statutory protection at the same time. (The protection is more narrow in…
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15 years ago today, on this blog…
…the smear campaign on John Kerry's war service.
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295 most-cited authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Courtesy of Professor Schwitzgebel. Do note the counting principles: for example, the list includes only authors born since 1900 and, more importantly, each author is only counted once per entry (even if, e.g., the author has six or seven entries in the bibliography). Obviously the distribution of SEP topics affects the results, as Professor Schwitzgebel…
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“How to make the right decision”
A video of a talk by philosopher J. McKenzie Alexander (LSE).
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What it’s like being a transgender woman
Philosopher Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open U) recounts her experience frankly and movingly.
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New Rambler Review…
….is back.
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Faculty orientation
The schedule.
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Law schools by number of graduates (JD, LLM and SJD) in the first FAR, 2019
There were 335 total applicants in the first FAR; here are the candidates by law school attended (for JD, LLM, and/or SJD): Harvard University (36) Yale University (35) Georgetown University (22) New York University (20) Stanford University (17) Columbia University (13) University of Michigan (13) University of California, Berkeley (11) University of Pennsylvania (11) University…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…