December 2021
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PGR 2021 Preview: Anglophone programs by “median” score
MOVING TO FRONT FROM SATURDAY, FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE MISSED IT Below the fold are the Anglophone programs with a median score of 3.0 or higher:
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Faculty under 50 on the “most cited” lists (CORRECTED)
Lawprof Scott Dodson (Hastings) kindly shared a list of faculty under the age of 50 who have appeared on the "most-cited" lists for the period 2016-2020. Law schools with three or more faculty on the "under 50" list are: Chicago (7), Harvard (7), Yale (7), Georgetown (6), NYU (5), William & Mary (3). On a…
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New Yorker article on “mind-reading” technology
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 5–SEE ESP. INTERESTING COMMENTS FROM NED BLOCK AND MOHAN MATTHEN; MORE COMMENTS WELCOME An interesting read, but I'm curious what readers–especially, but not only, philosophers–make of this claim about the purported upshot of the new technologies for tracking meaning in the brain: Now we know what [thoughts] really are: patterns…
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New Yorker article on “mind-reading” technology
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 5–SEE ESP. INTERESTING COMMENTS FROM NED BLOCK AND MOHAN MATTHEN; MORE COMMENTS WELCOME An interesting read, but I'm curious what readers–especially, but not only, philosophers–make of this claim about the purported upshot of the new technologies for tracking meaning in the brain: Now we know what [thoughts] really are: patterns…
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Philosopher Silvia de Toffoli receives grant for more than one million euros for project in philosophy of mathematics
Silvia de Toffoli, currently a postdoc at Princeton, has been named a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, which she will take up at the Department of Philosophy at Linköping University (Sweden). Her project aims "to develop a theory of how mathematical knowledge is generated and shared in practice" and to show "how mathematical objectivity can be achieved…
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Philosopher Silvia de Toffoli receives grant for more than one million euros for project in philosophy of mathematics
Silvia de Toffoli, currently a postdoc at Princeton, has been named a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, which she will take up at the Department of Philosophy at Linköping University (Sweden). Her project aims "to develop a theory of how mathematical knowledge is generated and shared in practice" and to show "how mathematical objectivity can be achieved…
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“The shadow CV”
Courtesy of philosopher Eric Mandelbaum (Baruch/CUNY).
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“The shadow CV”
Courtesy of philosopher Eric Mandelbaum (Baruch/CUNY).
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Still more on whether there have been changes in NSF funding related to “diversity” etc.
Two mathematicians had written to observe that NSF applications include an "impact" portion, in which "diversity" (etc.) was likely to be mentioned, which might explain the results of the study purporting to find an increase in such terms in funded projects. But now other readers have written in to point out that the original study…
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Still more on whether there have been changes in NSF funding related to “diversity” etc.
Two mathematicians had written to observe that NSF applications include an "impact" portion, in which "diversity" (etc.) was likely to be mentioned, which might explain the results of the study purporting to find an increase in such terms in funded projects. But now other readers have written in to point out that the original study…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Black Cat Bones, “Sylvester’s Blues,” 1969
British blues rock band of the late 1960s, an earlier incarnation included Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke, who later found great success with the band Free; the lineup that recorded this number from the band's one-and-only album included only one musician who went on to later fame and fortune: Rod Price, the slide guitarist for…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Black Cat Bones, “Sylvester’s Blues,” 1969
British blues rock band of the late 1960s, an earlier incarnation included Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke, who later found great success with the band Free; the lineup that recorded this number from the band's one-and-only album included only one musician who went on to later fame and fortune: Rod Price, the slide guitarist for…
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Changes in projects funded by the National Science Foundation since 1990
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 8–IMPORTANT UPDATES This study misuses the word "politicized" in an ideologically tendentious way, but has clearly identified a surprising trend: As of 2020, across all fields 30.4% of successful grant abstracts contained at least one of the terms “equity,” “diversity,” “inclusion,” “gender,” “marginalize,” “underrepresented,” or “disparity.” This is up from…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…