December 2022
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: the five best finds of 2022
As readers who follow this series know, it's gotten harder to find "obscure" fare worth sharing, so more recently, I've taken to re-upping older features from several years ago. But there were some good finds (at least by my light!) earlier this year. Here's my five favorites for 2022; feel free to add yours in…
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The University of California strike ended just before Xmas
Here's a recap of what transpired.
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Law & Philosophy Fellowship at University of Chicago for 2023-24
MOVING TO FRONT, ORIGINALLY POSTED NOVEMBER 9 The ad is now live here. Here's the description: The University of Chicago Law School seeks a Law & Philosophy Fellow, appointed with the rank of Lecturer, for the academic year 2023-24. This is a twelve-month appointment and is expected to begin July 1, 2023. Applications welcome from…
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More on the deadliness of Republican rule in the Covid era
A follower on Twitter calls to my attention this remarkable graph about Covid deaths per million.
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Republicans and Covid deaths
This is really stark evidence of the pathological dysfunction of this benighted country, in which one of the two major political parties is openly hostile to de minimis public health measures (recall that Americans died of Covid at a rate two to three times that [or more] of other normal countries): [B]y far the single group…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: the playlist!
Someone has compiled the full playlist of the songs featured on this blog over the years on YouTube!
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Blast from the past: On academic bad manners
Way back in 2003.
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Blast from the past: Should philosophers referee papers for free for for-profit journal publishers?
A lively discussion back in 2009.
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The UK is falling apart, an ongoing saga
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 20–AS THE COMMENTS SADLY CONFIRM, THE SITUATION IS INDEED GRIM I guess this is the legacy of Tory rule: Countless harrowing incidents have called attention to the ambulance problem in Britain, including that of an elderly man whose family covered him with a tarp as he waited seven hours after falling outdoors,…
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Probably not much new here until the New Year
I wish everyone a pleasant holiday break!
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In Memoriam: Penelope Mackie (1953-2022)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 15-UPDATED WITH BIRTH YEAR A well-known contributor to metaphysics, Professor Mackie spent most of her career at the University of Nottingham, where she was Associate Professor/Reader in Philosophy. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear. (My thanks to David Mackie for supplying the birth year.)
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JHP Book Prize for 2022
Professor Jean-Luc Solère, book review editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, has shared the following: The winner of the 2022 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize for the best book written in history of philosophy in 2021 is: Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto) for his Kant and the Law of War (Oxford University…
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A. Philip Randolph, a documentary
A propos last week's post: I happened upon this very good documentary about Randolph, which taught me several things I did not know (including that Randolph, unlike Du Bois, opposed WWI–pretty embarrassing for Du Bois!):
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Philosophy is a low-citation field
Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel looks at citation patterns across various disciplines, which confirms what casual observation would suggest: philosophy is not a high-citation field. As Professor Schwitzgebel notes: Philosophy ranks 126th of the 131 subfields [by one measure of citations]. The 25th-most-cited researcher in philosophy, Alva Noe, has 3,600 citations in the Scopus database. In the…
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Capitalism (more precisely, the neoliberal version that currently reigns) has destroyed the humanities, and we should not pretend otherwise
A propos this, a telling observation from a longtime reader: Remember how our generation was the “What are you going to do with that?” era, if anyone ventured to say that their major was in the humanities? Hardly anyone is now tempted by the humanities since the message that economic life in America is fundamentally…
I’ve only just heard this news and am sorry to read it. I was taught as an undergrad and postgrad…