March 2022
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Blast from the past: Most important Anglophone philosophers since WWII up until 2000
Back in 2015, with a discussion of the results.
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“Extremism”
Philosopher Quassim Cassam (Warwick) discusses the concept in this video of a lecture in Belfast.
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Ristroph v. Sklansky
Here and here. I've not read enough of the work of either of these authors to have an opinion on the merits.
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Where untenured tenure-track faculty at the U.S. “top ten” earned their PhD, 2022 (CORRECTED)
Tenure-track junior faculty at the U.S. "top ten" programs earned their Ph.D.s in philosophy from the following programs: 1. New York University (5) 1. Princeton University (5) 3. Rutgers University, New Brunswick (4) 4. Harvard University (3) 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (3) 6. Columbia University (2) 6. Oxford University (2) 6. University of Southern…
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2023 Rescher Medal awarded to Christine Korsgaard
Announcement here.
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It looks like Stanford epidemiologist John Ioannidis has lost his mind
We noted early on during the Covid fiasco one of his peculiar interventions, but his latest "publication" (basically trashing his critics for having lower citation counts) is bizarre.
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Blast from the past: Annals of Twitter hypocrisy: the case of “condescension from below”
Back in 2018, but not much has changed on Twitter, as we've noted before.
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Ukrainian philosopher Yermolenko Volodymyr on living in the midst of war
A lot of very striking observations on his Twitter account, including here, here, here, and here. (More about Volodymyr here.) (Thanks to Anthony Couture for calling this to my attention.)
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science “Popper Prize” for 2021 goes to…
…Eddy Keming Chen (UC San Diego), with honorable mention going to papers by Vera Hartenstein (Math, LMU Munich) & Mario Hubert (Caltech), and by Lauren Ross (UC Irvine).
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University of Montreal responds correctly to petition attacking professor for expressing “incorrect” views about Russia and Ukraine
Sometimes schools do get it right. (Thanks to Stephen Rive for the pointer.)
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Gillman & Chemerinsky: student hecklers are bad for free speech on campus, state legislatures quite a bit worse
Exactly right. It's no surprise that the crypto-fascists in America ignore the Repug war on academic freedom and free speech; it's more disheartening when those on the putative "left" whitewash the bad behavior by students on campus (e.g.). As Professors Gillman and Chemerinsky write: The student protestors and their allies would undoubtedly make the case…
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“Class struggle unionism”
This is interesting, and probably right.
That list of questions has a beauty to it, I swear.