May 2025
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Chinese Huayan metaphysics of reality
Interesting.
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University of Utah goes crazy
Philosopher Cynthia Stark (Chair of the Department) describes the mayhem created by dumb legislation; an excerpt: The state has…banned Pride flags in public spaces (and in faculty offices if they can be seen through a window), and now requires faculty to post their syllabi in a publicly searchable database… [A]s the coup de grâce for academic freedom…
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Richard Marshall interviews Henry Sidgwick…
…at 3:16 am.
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Peter Carruthers discusses his new book, “Explaining our Actions”…
…at the Brains Blog.
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Terry Reid, “Tinker Tailor,” 1968
Terry Reid was the British blues rock singer who was Jimmy Page's first choice as lead singer for the band he was forming that became Led Zeppelin. Reid turned Page down, and recommended Robert Plant, and the "rest is history" as they say. Reid recorded many albums and singles, but never achieved significant success. But…
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Lange from North Carolina to Rutgers
Marc Lange (philosophy of science and physics), currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolinat at Chapel Hill, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he will start this fall.
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Pavese from Cornell to Oxford
Carlotta Pavese (philosophy of mind & cognitive science, epistemology, philosophy of language), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, has accepted a professorship at Oxford University, with a Fellowship at St. Catherine's College.
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APA announces Spring prizes…
…including the Dewey Lecturers, the Lebowitz Prize, and the Romanell Lecture, among others.
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“Against the Metaphysical Turn in Recent American Jurisprudence”
A new paper that may be of interest to those who follow literature in jurisprudence; it will appear in my forthcoming book, From a Realist Point of View (Oxford University Press, 2026), which will include previously published papers (some revised a lot), plus new material (including this chapter), all related to realism in legal and…
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“Against the Metaphysical Turn in Recent American Jurisprudence”
A new paper that may be of interest to those who follow literature in jurisprudence; it will appear in my forthcoming book, From a Realist Point of View (Oxford University Press, 2026), which will include previously published papers (some revised a lot), plus new material (including this chapter), all related to realism in legal and…
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Princeton, the richest university in the U.S., asks all departments to make plans for permanent 5-10% budget cuts, warns of possible lay-offs
Yikes! The linked article suggests the looming increase in endowment tax is the culprit, since Princeton would pay the highest rate: [The House bill] still uses the same $500,00 per-student threshold for the original 1.4 percent endowment tax, which was passed during the first Trump administration in 2017. From there the tax rate increases in…
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Law schools should oppose an ABA proposal to double the experiential learning credits from 6 to 12
The ABA is up to mischief again, which needs to be opposed for the sake of law students. Here's what I wrote the last time this awful idea was being floated: Law schools differ, in their student bodies, in their employment outcomes. Law students differ, in their personal and professional goals, and in their…
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Legal challenges to the actions of the Trump Administration
All in once place, via thje Just Security site! (Thanks to John Bullock for the pointer.)
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Congratulations to the Chicago alumni and Fellows who accepted tenure-track jobs in law schools this year
They are: Tony B. Derron, who will join the faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is currently a Bigelow Fellow at the Law School. He received his J.D. from Yale in 2018, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review, and Lead Editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. …
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…