November 2023
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Harvard Law Review “on-line” pulls article that expressed incorrect views about Israel and Palestine
What an embarrassment. When one considers all the actual crap published by Harvard and other student-edited law reviews, the idea that this decision has anything to do with the "quality" of the essay, as opposed to its point of view, is beyond absurd.
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ABA considering increasing *required* experiential hours, which is a terrible idea
This won't have any benefits for legal education (and certainly won't make it more "practical"), although it will be a windfall for those who teach in these areas. There may be schools whose student body and local legal markets mean that it would make sense for them to require more "experiential" courses and clinics; but…
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Blast from the past: What areas are most important for a strong PhD program in philosophy?
Back in 2012, with reader discussion. A useful data point for sociologists and historians of the Anglophone profession.
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll covers: Paul Gilbert, “Great White Buffalo,” 2016
Paul Gilbert is probably best-known as the guitarist for the 1990s hard rock band Mr. Big, but this cover comes from a more recent solo album. His version of the old Ted Nugent/Amboy Dukes song is really quite good, I think (unlike Nugent, one can understand the lyrics in Gilbert's rendering–although I usually prefer not to…
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Dutch Le Pen wins big in election in Netherlands
Pretty wild: Anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders won a huge victory in Dutch elections, according to a near complete count of the vote early Thursday, in a stunning lurch to the far right for a nation once famed as a beacon of tolerance. The result will send shockwaves through Europe, where far-right ideology is on the rise, and…
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Heideger, Carnap, and nothing
Philosophy Graham Priest comments.
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Blast from the past: Personal ads of the philosophers
Back in 2006 and 2005, including Kant, Nietzsche, Socrates, Hume. [Hume link fixed.] Feel free to add your own in the comments.
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Colorado summer school in philosophy for 2024
Philosopher David Boonin (Colorado) tells me the topic for 2024 will be "Natural Questions," which will deal with "questions involving the distinction between the natural and the artificial or conventional. Specific issues to be discussed may involve claims about human nature, the state of nature, or natural rights; realism about such subjects as moral principles,…
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Goldstein from Dianoia/ACU to Hong Kong
Simon Goldstein (philosophy of language, epistemology, AI safety), currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the soon-to-be-disbanded Dianoia Institute at the Australian Catholic University, has accepted appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, effective January 2024. (Thanks to Justin Tiwald for the information.)
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In Memoriam: Jeroen Groenendijk (1949-2023)
A longtime member of the faculty at the Univeristy of Amsterdam, where he also did his degrees, Professor Groenenduk was especially well-known for the application of logical methods in the semantics and pragmatics of natural language in works that were of great interest to linguistis and philosophers of language. The Amsterdam memorial notice is here. Comments…
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In Memoriam: David Gauthier (1932-2023)
MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOVEMBER 12–UPDATED Via his former student Claire Finkelstein on Twitter, I learned that Professor Gauthier died on November 9. He was emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, whose department he joined in 1980 after more than twenty years at the University of Toronto. He was well-known for his contributions to political…
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Khalidi v. Benhabib on the “Philosophers for Palestine” letter
Philosopher Muhammad Ali Khalidi has responded to Seyla Benhabib's response (excerpted here) to the original "Philosophers for Palestine" letter (noted and discussed here). Professor Khalidi contests certain attributions that Professor Benhabib made about what the letter signatories believe, accusing her of an "intention to mislead" and also a "smear." I assume Professor Benhabib would argue…
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In Memoriam: Gerald Frug (1939-2023)
A longtime member of the Harvard law faculty, where he was emeritus, Professor Frug was a leading scholar of local government law. The Harvard memorial notice is here.
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Israel/Gaza links for November 20
Israel's "options" for Gaza after Hamas. None are particularly realistic, it seems to be, but it seems increasingly clear that emptying Gaza (or most of Gaza) of Palestinians is what the Israeli right wants. Biden has proposed an international force, to be followed by the Palestinian Authority, which "controls" the West Bank. The latter will…
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Philosopher and former Stanford Provost John Etchemendy on how Stanford confronted the Westboro Baptist Church on campus…
…and it didn't require a DEI office.
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…