February 2021
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Hairy Chapter, “There’s a Kind of Nothing,” 1971
German hard/acid rock band, this is the lead number of their debut album:
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New editors of the journal “Analysis” announced
Philosopher Ben Colburn (Glasgow), Secretary to the Analysis Trust, asked me to share this announcement, which I'm happy to do: The Analysis Trust is delighted to announce that it has appointed Dr Stacie Friend, Dr David Liggins and Dr Lee Walters as joint editors of Analysis from September 2021 onwards. We would like to thank…
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Looking back on 50 years of legal education
Via my colleague Will Baude on Twitter, I came across this interesting conversation between Louis Michael Seidman (Georgetown) and Mark Tushnet (Harvard) reflecting on their half-century in legal education. Tushnet, unsurprisingly, overstates the significance of Critical Legal Studies (which has had no discernible longterm impact, unlike legal realism), but that's a quibble. Do see the…
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Blast from the past: against “secret” waitlists in PhD admissions
Back in 2017, but timely again. Do see the discussion as well.
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First, the fake “napping while Black” scandal at Yale, now the fake “eating while Black” scandal at Smith
1/22 UPDATE: Four months ago, Richard Painter began viciously attacking Sarah Braasch, as part of his unhinged vendetta against me (one of his own Minnesota colleagues had to call out his lies about me!). Despite acknowledging Ms. Braasch's mental health problems, Painter has continued to harass her on a regular basis. As I wrote previously…
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Williamson on the “necessity of realism”
Once again at IAITV.
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In Memoriam: Fabrizio Mondadori (1943-2021)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 22–UPDATED A specialist in early modern philosophy, metaphysics and philosophy of language, Professor Mondadori spent most of his career at the excellent terminal MA program in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. An obituary is here (although it states wrongly he taught early on at Penn State–it was at…
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McGill University announces return to in-person classes in fall 2021
Here. Have other schools already announced fall plans? Feel free to include links to announcements in the comments.
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In Memoriam: Richard N. Boyd (1942-2021)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 22–UPDATED A longtime member of the philosophy faculty at Cornell, where he was emeritus, Professor Boyd was especially well-known for his forms of scientific and moral realism. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear. UPDATE: The Cornell memorial notice is here. (Thanks to John Doris…
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Blast from the past: the most important Western philosophers of all time?
A poll and discussion, back in 2017.
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The “California variant” of the coronavirus
Reasons to be worried? Links to better-informed discussions of this development welcome. UPDATE: This article is quite misleading; see the link in the first comment.
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MC Hammer, rapper and online defender of philosophy
Sometimes philosophy finds friends in surprising places. (Thanks to Mark Brenchley for the pointers.)
I am a freelance editor that works entirely for major university presses. I’ve even been brought in when outsourced book…