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The following is the text of my Facebook post on Sunday, March 22. That FB post is set to Public,…
Alan Musgrave: Life and Work We mourn the death of Emeritus Professor Alan Musgrave (1940-2026) who will be remembered as…
Second this; seems about time for a new round of temperature check.
Now that it’s been a couple of years since the splintering of JPP and PPA to Political Philosophy and Free…
My experience on Pangram is that it does not (seem to) give many false positives, but that it does allow…
Professor Halbach raises three concerns. One is about the availability of PDFs of OUP monographs. Another is about version discrepancies…
Besides MIT, Brown, Penn, and the University of Southern California have all declined. Again, if any school accepts the compact, then academics must boycott that university, and treat it as a pariah.
CHE has a useful piece by some leading academic freedom experts (David Rabban, Robert Post, Keith Whittington) and other academic defenders of free expression and academic freedom that explains the problems with the “compact.”
I am saddened to hear of Professor Reynolds’ passing. He was kind enough to sit on my masters thesis committee…