September 2021
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10 Most-Cited Civil Procedure Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty in civil procedure 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…
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Draft faculty lists (FINAL draft) for ALL Departments for the 2021 PGR
MOVING TO FRONT–TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY FOR FEEDBACK/CORRECTIONS Professor Christopher Pynes, co-editor of the PGR, has shared with me the FINAL draft of the faculty lists for the 2021 PGR, on which he welcomes feedback not later than September 27 (his contact information is on the draft, and please direct all questions and comments…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Three Man Army, “Polecat Woman,” 1974
British hard rock trio active in the early 70s, this is the lead number from their third album:
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“Agency and Responsibility Research Group”
MOVING TO FRONT FROM SEPTEMBER 21–UPDATED Here, courtesy of philosopher Thomas Nadelhoffer (Charleston). UPDATE: Upcoming talks this semester are by Derk Pereboom (9/30), Christian List (10/27), and Carolina Sartorio (12/03).
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Philosopher Arif Ahmed on challenges for academic freedom at his school, Cambridge University
Here, and with lessons for those who teach elsewhere.
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Discussing Nietzsche, moral psychology, naturalism, and related topics…
…with Ricardo Lopes at The Dissenter. The particular focus is my Moral Psychology with Nietzsche, but we ranged over other issues as well.
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Open letter protesting Midwestern State’s treatment of Nathan Jun
Here (and prior coverage).
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The philistinism of the philosophers
From an essay by philosopher Justin Smith (Paris VII): The political philosopher Jake McNulty reminded me recently of a wonderful observation of Adorno’s: that it was not the artists with firm political convictions expressed through their art, such as Bertolt Brecht, who ended up truly revolutionizing their historical moment, but those such as Samuel Beckett,…
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Top 25 law schools based on MEDIAN scholarly impact, 2021
The Sisk rankings of law schools by scholarly impact, gives more weight to mean impact than median impact (the overall scores is based on 2x the mean impact plus 1x the median impact). One reason it is interesting to look solely at median impact is that it tells us something about scholarly impact at a…
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Richard Painter, the man “without a moral compass”
A brief follow-up on this post earlier in the week, about Richard Painter's harassment of an innocent third party, Sarah Braasch, based on falsehoods (Richard lies a lot)–below the fold, for anyone interested.
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Hamkins, Montero from Oxford, CUNY to Notre Dame
Joel Hamkins (logic, philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics), currently Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University, and Barbara Montero (philosophy of mind and cognitive science, philosophy of dance), currently Professor of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island and the City University of New York Graduate Center, have both accepted senior offers from the Department of…
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“Anti-realism” and the analytic-continental divide
Philosopher Lee Braver (South Florida) comments. Of course, Derrida really is a charlatan, but he is the exception and not the norm in the post-Kantian traditions in Continental European philosophy.
I just published in the new PPA and can say it was one of the most difficult, rigorous R&R’s of…