August 2021
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Can science explain “near-death experiences”?
Various scientists and philosopher John Martin Fischer (UC Riverside) comment in this article.
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Is NYU Shanghai really part of NYU?
Or is NYU merely a "minority shareholder" in a Chinese university? Anyone thinking about working or studying there will want to look into this.
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“Seeing Clearly: A Buddhist Guide to Life”
Ricardo Lopes interviews philosopher Nic Bommarito (Simon Fraser) at The Dissenter.
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Chicago alumni and fellows on the teaching market, 2021-22
MOVING TO FRONT FOR LAST TIME: ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 10. MANY THANKS TO THOSE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN IN TOUCH; ADDITIONAL INQUIRIES WELCOME. This post is strictly for schools that expect to do hiring this year. In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me to get a copy of the…
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Who is vaccinated against COVID and who is not?
Interesting poll (based on self-reports, however) of the demographic breakdown of those who say they have been vaccinated against COVID: Whites: 66 percent Blacks: 76 percent Latinos: 71 percent Urban residents: 79 percent Suburban residents: 67 percent Rural residents: 52 percent White evangelicals: 59 percent Democrats: 88 percent Independents: 60 percent Republicans: 55 percent Republicans…
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Philosophy of rhinos?
Philosopher Craig Callender (UC San Diego) suggested to me that this category should be added to the PGR; I assured him I'd raise it with Professors Brogaard and Pynes! The suggestion did remind me of an old essay by my colleague (now Judge) Frank Easterbrook on why there was no course on "The Law of…
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Top 50 law faculties in scholarly impact, 2021
Professor Greg Sisk & colleagues at the University of St. Thomas have updated their scholarly impact rankings (last edition), looking at mean and median citations to tenured faculty scholarship for the years 2016-2020 inclusive, using fall 2021 faculty rosters as the benchmark (so, e.g., faculty on indefinite leave in government service are not counted). (Sisk et…
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University of Iowa reverses course on what faculty can say about COVID matters
Iowa is another ass-backwards state (like Alabama), where the Repug leadership cannot cope with the reality which the public health catastrophe of COVID presents. Fortunately, the University of Iowa decided to rescind purported restrictions on faculty speech related to masking and vaccines. (Thanks to a philosophy professor there for the pointer.) This presents a…
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Signs of the COVID times: Rice shifts to on-line classes for now
MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 20–UPDATED Here. Texas, like Florida, is a disaster area, thanks in large part to Republican Governors who have thrown up obstacles to all sensible public health measures. UPDATE: Testing errors led to Rice administrators thinking the situation was worse than it really was. (Thanks to Matt Lister for the pointer.)
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University of Chicago Law School now accepting applications for Bigelow Fellowships
You can apply here. You can see the academic placement of past Bigelow Fellows here (scroll down).
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Draft faculty lists for UK, Canadian, and Australasian departments for 2021 PGR
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY Professor Christopher Pynes, co-editor of the PGR, has now shared with me the draft faculty lists for Anglophone departments outside the U.S. for the 2021 PGR, on which he welcomes feedback ASAP (his contact information is on the draft, and please direct all questions and comments to him): Download PGR…
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US News is *not* going to produce its own scholarly impact rankings using HeinOnLine
A recent article made me realize that it is not generally known that USNews.com has decided not to try to produce its own scholarly impact ranking, which will (happily) leave the field to Professor Gregory Sisk and colleagues at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) (their new study should be out next week). Prior iterations…
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Richard Marshall interview Samuel Fleischacker (Illinois/Chicago), Part 2…
…here. (Part 1 here.)
I would note that there are a lot of structural reasons why senior staff might produce less research than people…