September 2021
-
10 Most-Cited Evidence Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty writing on evidence 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…
-
Faculty governance crisis at the College of Staten Island (part of the CUNY system)…
…where the President of the College, having received a vote of "no confidence" from the faculty, is now attempting a naked power grab. The New York chapter of the AAUP has also weighed in. Comments are open for those with more information, links to news stories, etc.
-
Nothing is too trivial to nonetheless inspire a grievance
Many in the STEM fields now use "JEDI" as the acronym for "justice, equality, diversity, and inclusion." This, however, is offensive according to these academics (mostly from education schools). One mathematician who sent this to me, singled out this passage from the article: [T]he Jedi are inappropriate symbols for justice work. They are a religious…
-
Sag v. Sisk on scholarly impact rankings
Professor Matthew Sag (Loyola/Chicago) called my attention to his recent critique of and alternative to Professor Sisk's scholarly impact rankings. I have not had an opportunity to look at his paper, but I did read his blog post. Professor Sag states: Gregory Sisk and his team release these rankings of the top 67 or so…
-
Peter Singer invited to give a Zoom talk about “Pandemic Ethics” by the Philosophy Department at Rhodes College…
…and now there is an uproar because Singer holds incorrect views, for example, about euthanasia, infanticide and the disabled. An uproar is fine, what isn't fine are the demands that his event (slated for tomorrow) be cancelled, which have come from, among others, the History faculty and the Anthropology/Sociology/African Studies Program at Rhodes. For example,…
-
Commitment to diversity more important than scientific competence in biology job ad
Biologist Jerry Coyne (Chicago) comments. (Thanks to Gregory Mayer for the pointer.)
-
In Memoriam: Charles W. Mills (1951-2021)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM SEPTEMBER 21–UPDATED Professor Mills, a leading figure in political philosophy and philosophy of race, was, since 2016, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, before that having spent more than a quarter-century in the Chicago area, first at the University of Illinois at…
-
Greene from UCL to UC Santa Barbara
Amanda Greene (political philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College London, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she will start as Associate Professor in fall 2022. This is the second recent major appointment in value theory by UCSB from the UK, after…
-
German election results are encouraging
A full breakdown here: the Greens and the Social Democrats both saw significant increases in their share of the vote, while the crypto-fascist AfD lost ground. Some of the gains for the Greens probably came from losses for The Left, the democratic socialist party. The Greens are not as progressive, but the Greens, thanks to…
-
What if the earth was cut in half?
I'm sure many readers have been worrying about this; remarkably, there's a site with an answer.
-
Maclure from Laval to McGill
Jocelyn Maclure (ethics, political philosophy, including issues related to AI) has left his tenured position at Laval University to take up a tenured position in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University, where he will also hold a new endowed chair in "Technology and Human Nature"
-
A. Philip Randolph and Vernon Jordan: an anecdote
A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was the great civil and labor rights leader of the last century, whom I've occasionally mentioned here before. When I was a high school student, my father had given me a biography of Randolph by Jervis Anderson, which made a profound impression on me at the time: this was a great…
“given the actual number of career-worthy jobs (i.e. not per-course or adjunct positions)” The “id est” seems mistaken. Many tenure-track…