June 2021
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Dotson from Michigan State to Michigan
Kristie Dotson (epistemology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race), Professor of Philosophy and African American and African Studies at Michigan State University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she will have a joint appointment beginning this fall with the Departments of Philosophy and Afroamerican and African Studies
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Yesterday’s montage maker has a whole YouTube channel…
…devoted to funny video montages of philosophers (as several readers pointed out after yesterday's post).
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Amartya Sen on India and the British Empire…
…in The Guardian.
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Proof from the capitalist marketplace that art beats philosophy
Painting of "A Philosopher Reading" sold for $9 million; actual philosopher reading never earned so much. (Thanks to Mark Couch for the pointer.)
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Blast from the past: the strange saga of the white feminist vs. her African-American colleague at Northwestern
Back in 2016 (and also here and here, with a cameo by philosopher Sally Haslanger.) Both the protagonists remain at Northwestern.
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Allais from UC San Diego to Johns Hopkins
Lucy Allais (Kant, moral psychology), holder of the Henry Allison Chair in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, where she will be roughly half-time (as she was at UCSD). She will continue to be part of the year at…
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Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche
Someone actually went to the trouble to produce this funny montage (based on this lecture at Lund): There's a lot of time to burn on the Internet!
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Mari Mikkola (Amsterdam) talks about hate speech and pornography…
…at the Brain in a Vat podcast.
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“Gender is not a spectrum”
Philosopher Rebecca Reilly-Cooper (Warwick) comments.
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Summer blogging
I'll be posting less regularly until early August. Professor Sisk and colleagues at St. Thomas are working on a new scholarly impact study, and I will make time for thost results as they become available.
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“Vain, lazy, and pompous”
MOVING TO FRONT FROM JUNE 24, COMMENTS ARE OPEN NOW, DISCUSSION OF THE IMPORT OF THIS RESEARCH WELCOME That's our guy John Locke, according to an account of a contemporary. (Thanks to David Zimmerman for the pointer.)
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The final nail in the coffin for the failed science of “implicit bias”?
Philosopher Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), a leading contributor to philosophy of cognitive science, shared with me his latest analysis of the empirical literature. (Professor Machery also was kind of enough to allow me to post the penultimate draft of the typescript: Download Machery Anomalies in Implicit Attitudes Research copy.) As Professor Machery summarizes the research:
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Great moments in live (folk) rock ‘n’ roll: Joni Mitchell, “Urge for Going,” 1966
This is a remarkable early clip from a somewhat corny Canadian music show (Mitchell's performance starts at about the one minute mark): (Thanks to Dan Jacobson for calling this to my attention.)
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Female law student in Scotland “investigated” by her university but then cleared…
…for (you probably guessed) expressing views about women. (Thanks to Cora Diamond for the pointer.)
I don’t think it’s that the philosophical debates will become irrelevant in your example, so much that your example demonstrates…