January 2020
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New Books in January
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays edited by Alexander Lefebvre & Nils F. Schott (Cambridge University Press, 2020). An Ethical Guidebook to the Zombie Apocalypse: How to Keep Your Brain without Losing Your Heart by Bryan Hall (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). Free Will, Responsibility, and Crime: An…
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Historian Victoria Bynum (Texas State U) responds to editor of AHR
Her response, to the AHR editor's sneering, is very strong; an excerpt: Despite your disclaimer that “in principle” being white should not “invalidate” the views of 1619 critics, in fact the skin color of historians critical of the 1619 Project has been scorned (and far worse) over and over again in the Twitterverse—by historians as…
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Bird from KCL to Cambridge
Alexander Bird (philosophy of science and medicine, metaphysics & epistemology), currently at King's College London, will succeed Huw Price (philosophy of science, physics, and language) as the Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, effective October. Price will continue on a half-time basis at Cambridge as Director of Research at the Leverhulme Centre for…
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Saul Kripke discusses Wittgenstein…
…at IAITV.
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Best introductory texts to ancient Greek and Roman philosophy (or particular figures in ancient philosophy)?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 28–MORE COMMENTS WELCOME Continuing with our new series about the best introductory texts in various areas of philosophy, I now invite readers to name what they think are the best introductory texts to ancient Greek and Roman philosophy (or particular figures in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy [e.g., introductions to…
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Rostron & Levit’s guide to submitting to law reviews updated
Their message follows: Dear Colleagues, We just updated our charts about law journal submissions, expedites, and rankings from different sources for the Spring 2020 submission season covering the 203 main journals of each law school. We have created hyperlinks for each law review to take you directly to the law review’s submissions page. Again the…
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How often does the NYT run articles highlighting ads attacking particular candidates….
…other than Trump, of course. Not that often, but the prudent wing of the ruling class no doubt deems this newsworthy. Can Sanders beat Trump? Who knows? Could Trump get the Republican nomination in 2016? Who knew? Could Trump be elected President? Who knew? But the ruling class knows what it can't abide and their…
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Brazilian Taliban
The fascist Bolsonaro picks a creationist to lead the government's higher education agency.
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Wilfrid Sellars, a personal recollection…
…from his second wife, who survived him (she is now deceased). It recounts how they met, some aspects of his career, and his death due to alcoholism. It also includes some of her slightly odd metaphysical reflections, those can be passed over (she was no naturalist, Sellarsian or otherwise).
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Does membership in the Federalist Society or American Constitutional Society undermine the appearance of judicial impartiality? (Michael Simkovic)
A draft judicial ethics advisory opinion would discourage judges and their clerks and staff attorneys from being members of either the conservative/libertarian Federalist Society or the liberal/progressive American Constitutional Society because of concerns that membership in such overtly ideological / political organizations could create an appearance of partisanship that could undermine perceptions of judicial impartiality. …
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Were you rejected in one of the University of California job searches utilizing the unlawful “diversity statements”? (UPDATED)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 23–UPDATED Pro bono legal representation may be available–read on. As we've noted on several occasions, schools in the UC System have begun requiring applicants for faculty positions to submit a diversity statement. In most searches, these statements have been evaluated holistically as part of an overall application. However, several UC…
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“In the shadow of Auschwitz”
Philosopher Jason Stanley comments.
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Conscientious objection to providing medical services?
Philosopher Jerry Dworkin discusses.
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Law professors are more religious than scientists, but it probably doesn’t matter much (Michael Simkovic)
At Taxprof blog, Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine) covers a study by James Lindgren (Northwestern) about the religious beliefs and practices of law professors. Lindgren compares law professors to the overall U.S. population and finds that law professors are more likely to express doubts about the existence of God. This study is part of a line…
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Philosopher Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) profiled…
…in the Financial Times.
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…