January 2025
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Queloz on “The Ethics of Conceptualization”
Available for free download from OUP in advacne of its official publication in a month. (I think the link is now fixed.)
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The metaphysical foundations of logic, with help from Kant and Hegel
Philosopher Jacob McNulty (Yale) discusses.
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Anti-immigrant czar annoyed that his victims know their legal rights
This is a remarkable admission. If only the victims were ignorant of what the law requires his job would be so much easier!
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The Trump order “pausing” federal government payments…
…has been rescinded, as most readers will know (one court had already enjoined it, another was poised to do the same). The "pause" was outrageous, as we already noted, so what is going on with the monster child and his fascist minions? Here's my best interpretation. We know that Trump wants to contest the constitutionality
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Apologies if I don’t reply to your emails…
…too much going on, and I have to prioritize emails from colleagues and students right now. I appreciate tips and pointers for the blog, and am trying to keep up with those! Thank you.
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British academic life, an on-going story of hardship
The latest: The sheer amount of work seems to be increasing exponentially, and not just in terms of scale but the number of vectors it’s all happening on too. It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and
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Blast from the past: Negotiating a job with multiple offers in hand
It still happens! This is from 2007, with reader comments.
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Life expectancy in the U.S. and educational attainment (a fairly good proxy for economic class)
What one would have expected: the "educated" live longer.
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Trump’s unlawful attempt to “impound” federal monies that Congress authorized be spent
Law professor Steven Vladeck explains the constitutional and legal issues; a few excerpts: In essence, the Trump administration is claiming the unilateral power to at least temporarily “impound” tens of billions of dollars of appropriated funds—in direct conflict with Congress’s constitutional power of the purse, and in even more flagrant violation of the Impoundment Control
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