October 2019
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New Books in October
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Bergson by Mark Sinclair (London: Routledge, 2020) (this is in the Routledge Philosophers series) Merleau-Ponty, 2nd edition by Taylor Carman (London: Routledge, 2020) (this is in the Routledge Philosophers series) Leibniz, 2nd edition by Nicholas Jolley (London: Routledge, 2020) (this is in the Routledge…
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Our old friend Lawrence VanDyke just got whacked by the American Bar Association
It seems like not much has changed in the last fifteen years.
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Nominee for 9th Circuit Lawrence VanDyke deemed “unqualified” by ABA…
…based on interviews with dozens of lawyers and judges who had worked with him and found him “arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to-day practice,” and who also described a "lack of humility," and an "'entitlement' temperament." That certainly well describes his reaction to being called out for his idiotic apologia…
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Kiosk philosophy
UC Irvine edition.
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Letters of recommendation are essential…
…even if some people write useless letters, as they do. But the arguments here are not sensible (for example, "prestige bias" is a canard, as we've noted before). As a senior philosopher elsewhere wrote to me last week: In many years on hiring committees I have found these letters extremely valuable in distinguishing the A…
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G.A. Cohen does Gilbert Ryle
Being reminded this morning of G.A. Cohen's brilliant impersonations and comedy routines, I happened upon one I had not see before, which is a gem:
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Michigan drops its “Bias Response Team” after appeals court rules against the University
A brief report from IHE, with links. (Earlier coverage.)
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Marxian economist/philosopher John Roemer (Yale) interviewed
Here. This gives a nice overview of the different dimensions of his work over time. UPDATE: And let's not forget G.A. Cohen's "Marxist Boxing Match: Roemer v. Habermas." Don't miss what referee Leon Trotsky tells the fighters. (Thanks to Jeff Ketland for the pointer.)
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Philosopher Susan Schneider (UConn) on the BBC…
…talking about our robot overlords of the future! Since they will have advanced intelligence, they will presumably be Marxists, so this could work out well!
I’m a software engineer who works at “AI adjacent” startups, and I think this article is a bit dramatic, but…