August 2024
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Jericho Jones, “Freedom,” 1971
We haven't featured this Israeli rock band in several years, which also performed at times under the name "The Churchills" and sometimes just "Jericho." This is another number from their 1971 album memorably titled Junkies Monkeys & Donkeys: Please feel free to add links to any favorite numbers by Jericho Jones/Churchills/Jericho.
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Summer quasi-hiatus is ending, more regular blogging resumes next week
Thanks, as always, for reading.
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Chicago Alumni & Fellows on the law teaching market, 2024-25
MOVING TO FRONT, ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 12 This post is strictly for schools that expect to do hiring this year. In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me to get a copy of the narrative profiles of our candidates who are on the entry-level market this year and participating in the…
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Some other lateral moves with tenure reflected in the updated PGR lists from the other day
I don't have additional information about these, except that they will all take effect by 2025 I take it (the benchmark for the upcoming PGR surveys): Michelle Kosch (19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy) from Cornell University to New York University. Matthew Soteriou (philosophy of mind) from King's College, London to the University of Pittsburgh.
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“Marx” will be published on September 5
MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 14 UPDATE: The book is out in the U.S.; I received my copies today, and I know a professor at Northwestern who also got his copy. Thanks again to all those wh pre-ordered, I hope you will have your book in hand very soon. =====August 14 post follows====== But I'm…
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Fraser to MIT
Rachel Fraser (epistemology, philosophy of language, social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, aesthetics), who had been Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University, and was slated to take up a post at the now defunct Diaonia Institute at the Australian Catholic University, has accepted a tenured appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts…
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Owens from KCL to Oxford
David Owens (moral and political philosophy, epistemology), Professor of Philosophy at King's College, London has been elected to the White's Chair in Moral Philosophy (now officially the Sekyra and White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy) at Oxford University. Jeff McMahan held the Chair from 2014 until his mandatory retirement.
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10 most cited Law & Technology faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty in law & technology (including Internet law, informational privacy, cybersecurity, AI/robotocs) in the U.S. for the period 2019-2023 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 database did expand a bit since then). …
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Two hires with tenure for UNC-Chapel Hill: Keiser from Leeds, Marechal from UCSD (start date corrected)
Jessica Keiser (philosophy of language, social & political philosophy), Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, and Patricia Marechal (ancient philosophy), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, have both accepted appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy (with tenure) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, effective July 2025.…
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Reality is paradoxical
An interview with Graham Priest.
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Closures of private nonprofit colleges in the U.S. have increased dramatically in recent years
A chart at the Wall Street Journal shows that in 2010, 13 colleges closed in the U.S.; by 2015, that nuber jumped to 30, and by 2018, it jumped to 68. Every year since, the number of closures has been in the 50s or 60s, with 14 already in 2024. The article notes: The pace of closures…
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More tenured faculty get the axe in Wisconsin, thanks to the awful former Governor Scott Walker
This time it's faculty at two branch campuses of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee: The board overseeing Wisconsin public universities voted to lay off 32 tenured University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors, marking the first large-scale application of a Republican policy put in place nearly a decade ago. UW-Milwaukee closed its Washington County campus at the end…
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20 most cited Constitutional Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law faculty in constitutional law in the U.S. for the period 2019-2023 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. Faculty…
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2024 Lakatos Award in philosophy of science goes to Barcelona’s Carl Hoefer
Announcement here. Let me add a word about the announcement of awards and prizes. There are a lot of them now in philosophy (which is great for those recognized), but it is not my policy or practice to announce all of them. I do try to take note of those that seem particularly important and…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Flower Travellin Band, “How Many More Times,” late 1960s
ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 29, 2019–COMMENTS NOW OPEN They don't get much more obscure than this Japanese pscyhedelic/progressive/hard rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s, that enjoyed no commercial success even in Japan, but has long had a small cult following. They began by doing covers of various British blues rock numbers, of which…
Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy (Harvard University Press & Center for the Study of World Religions, 2026) Permanently…