October 2021
-
Cancel culture, redux
It's certainly pathetic when right-wingers only give attention to free expression issues when it's their ox being gored, but it's even more pathetic when those nominally on the left pretend that there aren't serious problems with free expression in the academy and the broader culture emerging from the neoliberal identity-politics movement. This article is a…
-
Cancel culture, redux
It's certainly pathetic when right-wingers only give attention to free expression issues when it's their ox being gored, but it's even more pathetic when those nominally on the left pretend that there aren't serious problems with free expression in the academy and the broader culture emerging from the neoliberal identity-politics movement. This article is a…
-
PGR surveys, reminder
Professor Pynes asked me to remind those who took the surveys in 2014 or 2017 of the following: "University systems have become far more aggressive in blocking external emails," especially those with embedded links. Professor Pynes asks that "folks who have participated in the past, who haven't gotten an invitation, but want to participate [should]…
-
PGR surveys, reminder
Professor Pynes asked me to remind those who took the surveys in 2014 or 2017 of the following: "University systems have become far more aggressive in blocking external emails," especially those with embedded links. Professor Pynes asks that "folks who have participated in the past, who haven't gotten an invitation, but want to participate [should]…
-
Blast from the past: Janiak & Mercer on forgotten early modern female philosophers
Back in 2015, with some discussion in the comments as well.
-
Blast from the past: Janiak & Mercer on forgotten early modern female philosophers
Back in 2015, with some discussion in the comments as well.
-
Right-wing newspapers have a selective interest in freedom of expression, part 373
The Washington Free Beacon broke a story about a diversity bureaucrat gone mad at Yale Law School, and yesterday ran a follow-up on the reaction of legal academics. It included this quote: Martha Nussbaum, a left-wing legal theorist at the University of Chicago, said it "would be appalling and chilling" for any administrator to suggest…
-
Right-wing newspapers have a selective interest in freedom of expression, part 373
The Washington Free Beacon broke a story about a diversity bureaucrat gone mad at Yale Law School, and yesterday ran a follow-up on the reaction of legal academics. It included this quote: Martha Nussbaum, a left-wing legal theorist at the University of Chicago, said it "would be appalling and chilling" for any administrator to suggest…
-
Spinoza and religion
Interesting book review at the TLS.
-
Spinoza and religion
Interesting book review at the TLS.
-
Richard Marshall interviews Friedrich Nietzsche (Basel, retired)…
…at 3:16 AM. Nietzsche is in fine form! Richard really brings out the best in his interviewees.
-
Richard Marshall interviews Friedrich Nietzsche (Basel, retired)…
…at 3:16 AM. Nietzsche is in fine form! Richard really brings out the best in his interviewees.
-
Is it even lawful to consider “diversity” in hiring?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 9, SINCE TIMELY AGAIN (ALSO SEE THE INSTRUCTIVE DISCUSSION IN THE COMMENTS) In a discussion of the earlier poll, one junior faculty member asked: I was a bit surprised to see so many people admit to doing more than #1 [i.e,. outreach to candidates from underrepresented groups]. My impression was…
-
Is it even lawful to consider “diversity” in hiring?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 9, SINCE TIMELY AGAIN (ALSO SEE THE INSTRUCTIVE DISCUSSION IN THE COMMENTS) In a discussion of the earlier poll, one junior faculty member asked: I was a bit surprised to see so many people admit to doing more than #1 [i.e,. outreach to candidates from underrepresented groups]. My impression was…
-
White’s Professorship in Moral Philosophy at Oxford endowed and renamed
Oxford's announcement is here. Some friends on FB were puzzled that the endowment wasn't used to create a new Chair. I suspect the explanation is that the White's Professorship was not endowed at all, but supported by regular university funds, and that this endowment will take some of the strain off of Oxford's budget, which…
I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…