July 2024
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McGinnis from Missouri/St. Louis to Toronto
Jon McGinnis (medieval philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, will become Professor of Classical Islamic Philosophy at the University of Toronto, with appointments in the Department of Philosophy and Centre for Medieval Studies, effective August 1.
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Jing Huang on Nietzsche’s Nachlass and the question what notes he wanted “burned”
For those interested in Nietzsche studies, a discussion of a 2019 article.
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An interview with Neuhouser on Rousseau and amour-propre
Another interview by Johnathan Bi, as part of his series on great books and ideas we noted previously. Mr. Bi has a nice way of connecting the philosophical ideas to meaningful events in his own life, in a way that I imagine will resonate with other young people. The interview is worth watching, and is…
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Happy July 4th to my American readers!
Celebrate freedom, burn the flag.
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Another ACU philosopher gets the axe
The ACU disaster isn't over, it appears. Stephen Finlay's employment at ACU has reportedly been terminated effective June 14th, and he is now unexpectedly unemployed for the 2024-25 academic year. He has put out an announcement on Facebook saying that he is looking for emergency stop-gap employment, including temporary and part-time roles. You can contact…
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The Trump immunity decision
Two views: less alarmed, very alarmed. The DC Circuit decision in the same case represents the (sensible) road not taken. Suffice it to say, the U.S. is doomed, especially if Biden doesn't drop out of the race–if he does, we still might not dodge the Trump bullett (or bomb). But the next civilized President really…
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Glasgow’s Alan Weir: from the brink of death to a festschrift nearly a decade later!
One of my oldest philosophy friends, Alex Miller (University of Otago), shared this remarkable story: I was wondering if you would be able to note on your blog a Festschrift celebration of the work of my great friend Alan Weir that has just come out. Alan had to retire early from his post at Glasgow…
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“How to Cabin the Realist Indeterminacy Thesis: On Green, Positivism, and the Sources of Law”
The penulimate version on SSRN, for a volume that OUP will publish on the legal philosophy of Leslie Green. The abstract: Leslie Green raised an important challenge to my reconstruction of the American Legal Realist (ALR) arguments for the indeterminacy of law and legal reasoning: how can those arguments be limited, as I claim, to…
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“How to Cabin the Realist Indeterminacy Thesis: On Green, Positivism, and the Sources of Law”
The penulimate version on SSRN, for a volume that OUP will publish on the legal philosophy of Leslie Green. The abstract: Leslie Green raised an important challenge to my reconstruction of the American Legal Realist (ALR) arguments for the indeterminacy of law and legal reasoning: how can those arguments be limited, as I claim, to…
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Sleepwalking into disaster: the response to learning that Emperor Biden has no clothes
I've been tweeting various things about this all weekend, but let me summarize here: 1. Biden was always a middling speaker with limited brainpower, but the disastrous debate performance took that to a wholly new level: he has been hobbled by his age more than the Democratics had let on. This was not just a…
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Dorsey from Kansas to Oxford
Dale Dorsey (ethics, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas,will become Professor of Moral Philosophy and Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, effective September 2025.
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…