October 2020
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Dimitri, “Got a Dog Named Sally,” 1967
Dutch psychedelic band, this is certainly a catchy tune, very much of its moment:
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Another university succeeding despite COVID
This time Cornell University–but, in typical journalistic hysteria-mongering, the article treats this as "rare" rather than the norm.
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All eyes on Pennsylvania
More election worries. If Biden takes Florida, this won't matter, but that's a big "if."
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Coronavirus infection: it’s not just the nose, it’s also importantly the mouth!
This is interesting. (Thanks to Dr. David Ozonoff for the pointer.)
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In Memoriam: J. Adam Morton (1945-2020)
MOVING TO THE FRONT FROM OCTOBER 27–UPDATED Professor Morton's work ranged widely across epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of the emotions and other areas. He taught in the 1970s at Princeton University, where he also took his PhD, and then for more than two decades at the University of Bristol, and then held a Canada…
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Another philosopher on the autism spectrum…
…reflects on the issues we've been discussing.
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Where should students interested in post-Kantian German Idealism be applying this year in the US…
…given that two strong choices, Columbia and Chicago, have both suspended admissions. Even if they hadn't, Johns Hopkins would be one of the top choices anyway (Michelle Kosch, Yitzhak Melamed, Dean Moyar), and deserves a serious look from all students interested in post-Kantian Idealism. Other schools with tenure-stream faculty members (including at least one tenured)…
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Blast from the past: when Kathleen Stock had to complain to the APA Blog about the misconduct of one of its then-editors (Nathan Oseroff)
Back in 2018. (The APA Blog subsequently adopted policies to protect against the kind of misconduct Nathan Oseroff engaged in.) Those crazies seem to have quieted down since their reign of social media "terror" a year or two ago.
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Law & Philosophy Fellowship at University of Chicago for 2020-21
The ad is here. Fit with the Workshop theme (bolded below), as usual, is crucial. Here's the core text of the ad: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL. The University of Chicago Law School seeks a Law and Philosophy Fellow, appointed with the rank of Lecturer, for the academic year 2021-22. This is a twelve-month…
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“Fundamentalism is the mortal enemy of all civilized humanity,” redux
Case in point. RAWA knew.
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On interpreting the works of great philosophers
Lots of wisdom here, as usual, from Robert Paul Wolff; an excerpt: [I] you are presented with Hilary Hahn and Itzhak Perlman playing the [Beethoven Violin] Concerto, it would be absurd to say that one of them must be doing it wrong since they are doing it differently. I believe that the same can be…
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A lot of anxiety, resentment, self-deception, and sour grapes about the law teaching job market…
…on display here, especially in many of the comments (and there's also pushback in the comments). The law teaching job market is very far from a "lottery" (as one commenter put it); if it were a lottery, it wouldn't be possible to predict fairly well how candidates will fare. It is true that the law…
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More thoughts on living with autism and social interaction
A very smart former student of mine from the University of Texas, Mark Engelson, who is on the autism spectrum, writes: I read the post you shared on the blog with great interest, and I share your doubts about ableism. There are things that I do (at times, not at others) that can be deeply…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii