August 2021
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The end of Oxford’s dominance in jurisprudence: Leslie Green to leave Oxford
Leslie Green, Professor of the Philosophy of Law at Oxford University since 2006, has resigned his Chair effective the end of September. (He will continue with his part-time appointment at Queen's University in Canada.) With the untimely death of John Gardner in 2019,the filling of his prior Chair with a moral philosopher, Timothy Endicott's taking…
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Schools with “mandatory” mask policies: what is the enforcement mechanism?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–ADDITIONAL COMMENTS WELCOME A professor elsewhere at a school with a "mandatory" mask policy is wondering about how he should go about enforcing it, and is looking for suggestions. Obviously asking for compliance is the first step, but what of the student won't comply? What about a student who wears the…
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Zheng from Yale-NUS College to Glasgow
Robin Zheng (ethics, moral psychology, feminist philosophy), currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, will take up a permanent post as Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, effective January 2022. (Thanks to David Bain for the information.)
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Is COVID vaccine efficacy waning?
This is an informative overview of what we know; some excerpts: “[Vaccine] efficacy drops with Delta. That is indisputable,” says Leif Erik Sander, an infectious disease expert at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. But exactly how much it drops differs across studies. In a report this week analyzing weekly reports on nursing home residents…
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Philosopher’s Annual, ten top papers of 2020
Professor Grim and the other editors sent this out to the Nominating Editors not long ago (I've added school affiliations): Our thanks to the Nominating Editors for a wonderful set of initial nominations and for extremely useful survey input and comments. This year’s final selection: The Philosopher’s Annual volume 40 from the literature of 2020…
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An interview with philosopher Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open U)
Intelligent and illuminating, as one would expect!
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“The whole country is the Reichstag”
A bracing essay from Adolph Reed, Jr., who really is our most astute socio-economic critic these days; a couple of excerpts, below, but I encourage folks to read it all. The right-wing political alliance anchored by the Republican party and Trumpism coheres around a single concrete objective—taking absolute power in the U.S. as soon and…
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10 Most-Cited Commercial Law Scholars in the U.S., 2016-2020
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty in commercial law (including contracts and bankruptcy) in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to…
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Guess who’s 251 today?
And we're still not rid of him!
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Blast from the past: what are “cognate faculty” for PGR purposes?
Back in 2014, but timely again. Professor Pynes asked me to share this, in light of his current efforts to finalize the faculty lists for the 2021 PGR.
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10 Most-Cited Tax Scholars in the U.S., 2016-2020
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited tax professors in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. Faculty for whom roughly…
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Virtue signalling and public morality
Philosopher Anthony Appiah (NYU) and others discuss at IAITV.
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Blackburn v. Parfit
Back in 2011, and it led to a good discussion in the comments which are worth reading!
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10 Most-Cited Law Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited active law professors in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. (Law professors not…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii