February 2020
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Brownlee from Warwick to British Columbia
Kimberly Brownlee (moral, political & legal philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, effective July 2020. This will further solidify UBC's place as the #2 department in Canada, after the University of Toronto.
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Britain’s UCU calls for more strikes by academic staff (LINK NOW FIXED)
Philosopher Alexander Douglas (St Andrews) is skeptical.
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APA extends voting rights to graduate students
Announcement here. Will this change the APA? If so, how? I've no idea! Thoughts from readers welcome, especially those more engaged with the APA.
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Moral grandstanding at the Oscar ceremonies?
Philosophers Justin Tosi (Texas Tech) and Brandon Warmke (Bowling Green) comment. The discussion is quite nuanced, making it all the more remarkable that it appears on the CNN website! (Thanks to Alan White for the pointer.)
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Law review EICs at the top 16 law schools are all currently women
A conference in their honor was recently held in Washington, DC. (Top 16, by the way, is a far more sensible demarcation than "top 14," which designates nothing of significance in the real world.)
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The Attorney General of the United States appears to be a fascist
This is beyond shocking: this is what one expects in Russia and Hungary and Poland; this is what one expects when the rule of law is dying. Attorney General Barr is a disgrace to the legal profession. One can only hope the sentencing judge ignores the Department of Justice's recommendation to reduce the sentence for…
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Not a great piece of “public philosophy”: on Strawson and the coronavirus
I've noted with appreciation some of philosopher Regina Rini's past public work, but her debut essay for a new "ethics" series at the TLS is neither a good piece of work nor a good advertisement for philosophy. The subject is the arrival of the novel coronavirus in Toronto, where Professor Rini teaches (at York University):…
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Good news for unmarried fornicators in Virginia
You'll soon be legal!
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Blog Emperor links to “the College Fix” regarding his pet issue du jour
Here. (The College Fix is part of the right-wing media-sphere devoted to attacking universities.) Here's the relevant part of my exchange with the student author, Troy Sargent, of the College Fix piece now deemed newsworthy. Mr. Sargent: I am a reporter with the College Fix and appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions. …
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Will it come down to Sanders and Bloomberg?
If you take a look at the national and state polls at 538, the big story is the rise of Bloomberg in the "Super Tuesday" states and nationally. With Biden poised to come in 4th or 5th in New Hampshire, after a bad loss in Iowa, his only hope is South Carolina, where he probably…
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“Creepy Pete”
This is actually pretty apt: “We had the belief that in the face of exhaustion and cynicism and division, in spite of every trampled norm and every poisonous tweak,” [Mayor Pete] said, “that a rising majority of Americans was hungry for action and ready for new answers.” What action? What answers? What is this? The…
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When will the EU cut off funding to the fascists in its midst?
The EU has done nothing about Orban in Hungary, what about PiS in Poland? (Even the Financial Times, which presumably has the ear of the EU ruling class, is worried!)
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On the experience of being in a “manic” state
Philosopher Paul Lodge (Oxford) comments. (Thanks to Daniel Kodsi for the pointer.)
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In case anyone forgot that Rush Limbaugh is the scum of the earth (with apologies to scum)…
…a small sampling, but one that does no justice to the extent to which he has damaged the polity and the democracy over the last thirty years.
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Who controls a journal: the editorial board or the publisher?
The entire editorial board of the European Law Journal has resigned in a dispute with publisher, Wiley, over who the new editors will be. Legally, it looks like Wiley can appoint the editors, but the credibility of the journal is now shattered. (Thanks to Matt Kramer for the pointer.)
Nietzsche’s Ecce homo, Notebooks and Letters: 1888-1889. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. ©2023 Daniel Fidel Ferrer. All rights reserved. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs…