September 2024
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Steve Pyke, famed photographer of philosophers and many others, interviewed…
…at Aesthetics for Birds. I sat for him in his NYC studio for the second series, and it was a lot of fun, and he was kind enough to let me use the photo in various places, including at the bottom of my home page.
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Blast from the past: Transparency about refereeing
Back in 2019, with reader discussion.
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“The Impact of PhD studies on mental health”
A Swedish study, not encouraging (except the last line): We study the impact of PhD studies on mental health care uptake using Swedish administrative records of prescriptions for psychiatric medication for the full population of PhD students. First, we provide descriptive evidence that PhD students collect psychiatric medication at a higher rate than a matched…
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20 most cited Corporate Law & Securities Regulation faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
The Blog Emperor has the details. Those are some big numbers! Their Dean Ken Randall is experienced and savvy (he oversaw Alabama's rise to distinction in the early 2000s), but will have his work cut out for him. Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law corporate law & securities faculty…
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More on the coming crisis of antiobiotic-resistant microbes
Following up on last week, this grim appraisal appeared in Science: In 2019, while attending the annual conference of the American Society for Microbiology, I listened to an interview with Carl Nathan, a renowned tuberculosis researcher. During the conversation, Nathan shared that in 1948 he was among the first group of civilians to receive penicillin…
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A new translation of Marx’s Capital…
…amusingly reviewed by James Miller. Professor Miller notes: Marx asked Engels, in one of the German reviews he wrote, to summarize “Capital” simply, using language that Marx helpfully supplied: It showed how “present society, economically considered, is pregnant with a new, higher form,” and it revealed in human civilization “the same gradual process of…
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Rousseau on Trump’s lies about Haitan immigrants…
…with some help from political theorist David Lay Williams.
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The new timetable of the law school hiring market
Because I've been working with Chicago alums and fellows on the teaching market since 2008 (and doing the same at UT Austin before that), I've been witness to the changing timetable since the pandemic killed the "meat market" in Washington, DC (thank goodness!) and Zoom took over. Here's my perception, but I've opened comments for…
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Academic freedom abolished at Penn
Very embarrassing for a major research unversity. Penn faculty will need to watch their mouths! Somehow Northwestern, a roughly peer university to Penn, has managed to permit an actual Nazi apologist to remain on its faculty for decades, without violating its contractual obligations to uphold the AAUP requirements of academic freedom. (I guess the writing…
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Academic freedom abolished at Penn
IF YOU ARE COMING HERE VIA THE DISHONEST RICHARD PAINTER, SCROLL DOWN TO THE 6/12/2025 UPDATE. The University of Pennsylvania has sanctioned Amy Wax for her offensive extramural speech, even though it is clearly protected under the applicable AAUP standards governing extramural speech (earlier coverage). (The sanction does not involve revocation of tenure, but rather…
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Talk about election interference
Does anyone doubt that Netanyahu picked this moment to escalate a war with Hezbollah in Lebanon (and, by proxy, Iran) in order to try to help Trump? The clueless voters who decide elections will pick up something about a conflagration in the Mideast, and will think, "We need a tough guy in office [not a…
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In Memoriam: Max Cresswell (1939-2024)
Emeritus at Victoria University of Wellington, where he spent most of his career, Professor Cresswell was well-known internationally for his contributions to logic (esp. modal logic), philosophy of logic, and formal semantics. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Cresswell, or for those who wish to comment on the significance of his…
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In Memoriam: Max Cresswell (1939-2024)
Emeritus at Victoria University of Wellington, where he spent most of his career, Professor Cresswell was well-known internationally for his contributions to logic (esp. modal logic), philosophy of logic, and formal semantics. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Cresswell, or for those who wish to comment on the significance of his…
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10 most cited Tax Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law tax law faculty 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 for…
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Want to write philosophy in an attractive setting in nature in Estonia?
There is a call for proposals for Theda Rehbock’s Philosophy Residency 2024/2025 in Susimetsa, Pärnu County, Estonia: Download Call for applications_2024_2025_Philosophy Residency. Note that this is free! (Thanks to Margit Sutrop for sharing this with me.)
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii