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> These are obviously two different things, but my sense is that part of the…paradigm shift that resulted in infinitely…
In memory of the inventor of this ingenious argument and its faithful reporter, both recently lost: “Is the ontological argument…
I did not know Timothy Smiley well, and his pioneering joint book on Plural Logics is sitting on my shelves…
Smiley cowrote the single best introduction to his field (formally and otherwise) I think will ever be written. I’m grateful…
Worldly Indeterminacy, by Chien-hsing Ho, at Oxford University Press. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/book/63418. Description The book provides a framework to support…
This is exactly right. I’m a writer, and this is already accepted by the literary reading public: the human origin…
July
Lateral hires with tenure or on tenure-track, 2018-19
Amy Wax, again, and academic freedom and the duties of administrators
August
Ten lateral moves that made law professors take notice during 2018-19
A memorable commencement address
Law schools by number of graduates in the first FAR
A strange reaction to Professor Kronman's point about diversity
Dear John, I hope you’re sitting down. I knew John Hagelin when I was in high school fifty years ago.…