February 2024
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Against “diversity” statements in job applications
I confess I'm amazed the APA Blog published these "incorrect" thoughts, but good for them! These aren't the strongest arguments against the use of diversity statements, but I certainly agree they are a "waste of time," except as an end-run around legal prohibitions on using race/ethnicity as a factor in hiring.
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Chat GPT goes to law school, again
And its grades are improving, this time at the University of Maryland.
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Great moments in rock ‘n’ roll covers: Lemmy does AC/DC
Lemmy (of Motorhead fame) recorded this version of AC/DC's lead track, "It's a Long Way to the Top if You Want to Rock 'n' Roll" (from 1975) in 2006. It's hard to top the original, but this one is pretty good: Feel free to add links to other favorite AC/DC covers.
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Two more ACU/Dianoia departures: Fritz, Carter to UCL
Peter Fritz (logic, philosophy of logic, metaphysics), Professor of Philosophy ast the soon-to-be-defunct Diaonia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, and Sam Carter (philosophy of language, epistemology, logic), Senior Research Fellow at Dianoia, have both accepted permanent posts at University College London: Fritz as Associate Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, and Carter…
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MAGA crazy says it out loud: we will end democracy
Charming. I trust the Democrats will run this clip in many advertisements.
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MAGA crazy says it out loud: we will end democracy
Charming. I trust the Democrats will run this clip in many advertisements.
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Blast from the past: Adolph Reed on antiracist scholarship and activism
Back in 2018, and still very relevant.
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The Republican war on higher education (and academic freedom) comes to Indiana
From IHE: Indiana’s Republican-dominated state Senate wants to do both at once. Earlier this month it passed a bill that takes aim at both tenure and DEI in public colleges and universities, tying them together with language that shifts focus from racial or other notions of diversity toward what it calls “intellectual diversity.” Senate Bill 202,…
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Online Festschrift for Matti Eklund, organized by a colleague at Uppsala
But he's only 50! What a nice thing to do, with contributions by Daniel Korman, Eli Hirsch, Øystein Linnebom and others.
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“Woke Kindergarten”
That's the actual name of a business, and this sad story is a good example of how race-centric thinking is actually dangerous to the well-being of people, in this case, schoolchildren: A Hayward elementary school struggling to boost low test scores and dismal student attendance is spending $250,000 in federal money for an organization called Woke…
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Galen Strawson takes his campaign “against narrativity”…
…to the Dublin Review of Books.
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Which serious philosophy departments offer opportuities to study the post-Kantian Continental traditions in philosophy?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY, WITH UPDATES AND CORRECTIONS The landscape is certainly changing for students who want to get a solid philosophy education and be able to study the post-Kantian Continental traditions in philosophy. Columbia University, long a top choice for Anglophone students, is no longer one: Frederick Neuhouser (Hegel, German Idealism) is retiring…
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New preface to the Chinese edition of “Nietzsche on Morality”
This won't interest most readers, but here is the new preface I wrote at the request of the translator for the Chinese edition of Nietzsche on Morality (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2015), to be published by the Shanghai People's Publishing House. He wanted me to address the themes in my book that accounted for its substantial influence in…
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The “cosmic inquisitor”
Speaking of nuts in cyberspace, this is an amusing profile of a very loud one, whom we've encountered before.
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Against the ABA proposal to increased required “experiential” learning credits
Lawprof Joshua Silverstein's submission to the ABA raises some interesting issues: Download Silverstein Josh Comments Attachments re. Std 303 (and see also the attachments, including letters from then Stanford Dean Magill and UVA Dean Mahoney about the last proposal to increase the "experiential" learning requirement). (Earlier coverage.)
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…