October 2022
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Links to all the 2021 Scholarly Impact ranking posts (final version) (for citations during 2016-2020)
ORIGINALLY POSTED FEBRUARY 16, 2022 Top 50 law faculties in overall scholarly impact, 2016-2020 Top 25 law faculties in median scholarly impact, 2016-2020 10 Most-Cited Faculty in the US, 2016-2020 20 Most-Cited in Administrative and/or Environmental Law 10 Most-Cited in Antitrust 10 Most-Cited in Civil Procedure 10 Most-Cited in Commercial Law 20 Most-Cited in Constitutional…
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G.A. Cohen talks about The German Ideology…
…in 2009: (Thanks to Richard Marshall for the pointer.)
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Videos of philosophers edited to make them sound funny
We noted one of these little montages awhile back, and there are lots more! As one commenter on one video remarked, "This is the most niche YouTube channel ever."
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Rice University waives all applications fees for applicants with at least a 3.0 GPA
That will include the philosophy PhD program as well, of course. Are other schools also using fee waivers in this round? Please add links in the comments, or post (with a full name) about policies of particular philosophy programs. (Thanks to Gwen Bradford for the pointer.)
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Is US News an “authoritative” ranking of law schools?
I know this question will make readers of this blog laugh, even as they recognize the pernicious influence the USNews.com rankings have on legal education and the decisions of applicants. But I was struck when having lunch this past Spring with some talented LLM students from Japan and China that they seemed to assume the…
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30 “progressive” Democrats call on Biden to seek a “negotiated settlement” with Russia (UPDATED)
Here. Without U.S. and European military support, the war in Ukraine is over, which means a "negotiated settlement" is also going to include pressure in Ukraine to make concessions it will not want to make, although the letter doesn't mention that. Hopefully this letter will give some impetus to Biden to take steps to avoid…
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Sleepwalking into Armageddon, Part 2
MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 17, SINCE THE DISCUSSION IN THE COMMENTS CONTINUES–MORE COMMENTS WELCOME Reader Boris Dagaev calls my attention to this chilling interview at the Financial Times with Alexander Gabuev, who "before he left Russia…was a member of the country’s foreign policy elite as one of Russia’s leading experts on China," and now works…
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Blast from the past: Wright on McDowell…and the nature of “analytic philosophy”
Back in 2007, with discussion by readers.
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Physics–the “queen of the sciences”–dethroned
Philosopher Nancy Cartwright (Durham/UC San Diego) comments (drawing on themes form her well-known work). An excerpt: Instead of supposing that physics must be queen of all we survey, I recommend we construct our image of what an ultimate science might be like on the basis of what current science is like when it is most…
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Memorial collection of (open access) scholarship by and about Saul Kripke
Eric Piper, an editor at Wiley, writes: "The collection includes early journal articles published by Kripke in the Mathematical Logic Quarterly as well as more recent papers; articles from a 2022 Theoria special issue looking back at Naming and Necessity; and book chapters discussing his place in the field."
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Judge Ho heading to Yale, at invitation of Dean Gerken
So reports the Blog Emperor. Judge Ho's threatened boycott sure seems to have gotten Yale's attention!
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Rubin from Notre Dame to Missouri
Hannah Rubin (philosophy of biology, philosophy of science), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, will take up a tenured appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, Columbia, effective January 2023. (Thanks to Andre Ariew for the information.)
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Pascal’s wager reversed
Philosopher Saul Smilansky (Haifa) explains.
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Blast from the past: Best introductory books in philosophy of science and/or philosophy of particular sciences
Back in 2019, with reader suggestions.
[…] Brian Leiter has posted on the question: “The answer is still `emphatically’ yes. Lawprof Sloan Speck reviews some recent research…