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Blast from the past: reflections on the 10th anniversary of the blog…
…back in August 2013. All of it still rings true today.
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Why the younger generation is angry and voting differently than their elders in many different countries
Interesting data on how different age groups have been faring economically.
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The annual American Academy of Arts & Sciences “the rich get richer,” 2016 edition
Here are the schools with the most newly elected Fellows to the Academy across all categories; an * indicates a school that did unusually well compared to recent years; an # indicates a school that had an unusually weak showing this year. 1. University of California, Berkeley (9) 2. Harvard University (7) 2. Princeton University (7)…
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Best Anglophone moral philosophers in the post-WWII period
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–IF YOU HAVEN'T VOTED YET, PLEASE DO SO IF YOU HAVE VIEWS ABOUT MORAL PHILOSOPHY Here. When I started these polls earlier in the year, I aggregated moral & political philosophy, but in response to suggestions, I thought I'd try disaggregating them (and also adding a few philosophers who were omitted…
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Dickinson College, having now fired a tenured professor without process or cause, wants to hire a scab…
…to cover his courses. (Under the circumstances, I will not acknowledge the reader, himself a job seeker, who called this development to my attention.)
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Ludlow and Northwestern undergraduate settle their lawsuits against each other, and both criticize Northwestern
The undergraduate who first sued Northwestern for Title IX violations and then sued Peter Ludlow, and whom Ludlow then counter-sued for defamation, have now settled their lawsuits against each other. Prof. Ludlow's statement on the settlement is here: Download Ludlowstatement Ms. Ha's statement (from last fall) is here: Download HaStatement
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More on “recent trends” in philosophy degrees awarded…
…from Rob Townsend at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Annals of strange reviews of strange books
From the usually excellent Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (which frequently falls short in this particular area, alas, I am guessing because one can't get serious philosophers to review stuff like this): As the Anglophone reception and appreciation of François Laruelle's work grows, it is worth reminding ourselves of the radicality of its ambition to be…
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Carrie Jenkins’s electric scooter and other revelations
This post is strictly for those following the pathetic saga that began with the fall 2014 smear campaign to take down the Philosophical Gourmet Report published by Wiley-Blackwell (hereafter, "PGR"). For nearly 17 months, we've been involved in an extended negotiation and appeals process, first with the University of British Columbia, now with the Office of the Information and Privacy…
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Five philosophers elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
They are: Margaret Gilbert (UC Irvine), Shelly Kagan (Yale), Helen Longino (Stanford), Vann McGee (MIT), and James Wooward (Pittsburgh).
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Tenure-track and post-doc hiring of philosophy PhDs, 2015-16
PhilJobs seems to be collecting most of the tenure-track hires this year, and I encourage those who secured jobs to submit their information there. I still get occasional requests to post junior hiring information. Christopher Peacocke, the Chair at Columbia, for example, wrote to report two new tenure-track hires there: Melissa Fusco (UC Berkeley) as Assistant…
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“Fuck Donald Trump”
The rap video. (Lots of naughty words, so the sensitive should avoid watching.)
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Now this is the strangest philosophy-related list yet!
Via Weinberg's "heap" comes this bizarre listing of philosophers with at least 1,000 followers on Twitter listed by how well their books have been selling on Amazon! I've no idea what this means; I'm guessing "nothing," though one must marvel at someone undertaking to compile this!
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Bernecker accepts Humboldt Professorship at Cologne (with a continuing one quarter per year at UC Irvine)
Sven Bernecker (epistemology), Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, has accepted a Humboldt Professorship at the University of Cologne, effective July 2016. Bernecker retains a fractional appointment at UC Irvine where he will spend one quarter each year.
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Rebecca Schuman, quite possibly the dumbest person writing about academia in the U.S….
…thinks we could solve the sexual harassment problem in certain disciplines by "banning" independent studies between faculty and students. Her evidence consists of a few anecdotes. But that's enough to be published on the web. But there's an important epistemic question here: should the rantings of a failed academic (times are very tough, but all the…
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McMahan’s defense of “effective altruism” (EA) against the philosophical critics
Jeff McMahan (Oxford) kindly gave me permission to share his articulate and compelling defense of EA against its philosophical critics, which will appear in The Philosopher's Magazine: Download McMahan Philosophical Critiques of Effective Altruism 4-18-16 FINAL McMahan makes a number of good points, and I am sympathetic to most of what he says in reply to…
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The dissolution of the Republican Party?
This is hopeful. To be sure, there will still be tens of millions of benighted Americans, their minds clouded by religion or simple ignorance, who will remain loyal to the crazed ideology that is the current Republican Party, but without a formal organization, they will become irrelevant to electoral outcomes. And then the U.S. might…
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Randian hack (with an undergraduate degree in philosophy) appears before Senate Committee on climate change posing…
…as a "philosopher." Yikes! (Thanks to Lawrence Torcello for the pointer.)
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Thought experiment lab
The blog.
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The ideology of neoliberalism
Not bad for a journalistic piece.
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Georgetown’s ties to a fascist philosopher?
The student newspaper exposes an embarrassing connection.
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Grannie, “Leaving,” 1971
Yet another British band, this one more a mix between Traffic and the Marshall Tucker Band–alas the rest of the album isn't as good as this tune:
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Scharp from Ohio State to St. Andrews
Kevin Scharp (philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics, philosophy of science, history of analytic philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University, has accepted appointment as Reader in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. ADDENDUM: In addition, Prof. Scharp's partner, the philosopher Alison Duncan Kerr (philosophy of mind, moral psychology, metaethics), currently a Lecturer…
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“Faculty Against Rape” letter on AAUP report on Title IX is really a letter by some philosophy faculty and grad students…
…some of whom were involved in the disgraceful Kipnis affair (which they actually have the audacity to revisit and try to rationalize in this new letter–and see also). Here's the letter. I would guess from the content that one of the primary authors was the author of the FP blog post we discussed awhile back.…
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Cornell’s Chignell has senior offers from Penn, North Carolina
Andrew Chignell (Kant, early modern philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of religion, aesthetics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, has senior offers from the Departments of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Advertising update for May
There's still one top and one 2nd from the top spot available in May, as well as 3rd from the top spots ($700, $600, $500 respectively). Prospective advertisers can click on the "public stats" link (bottom of the left hand sidebar) to see the volume of traffic here, which has been averaging over 10,000 visits per day, and nearly…
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Philosophy professor in Kuwait charged with “blasphemy” for suggesting the Constitution of Kuwait should take precedence over the Quaran
Our allies the Kuwaitis. (Thanks to Graham Oddie for the pointer.)
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Dickinson College has now terminated tenured philosophy professor Crispin Sartwell
MOVING TO FRONT–ORIGINALLY POSTED APRIL 9 (UPDATED, AND UPDATED AGAIN ON APRIL 12, APRIL 14) Professor Sartwell reports this development on his blog, though he has also shared with me the documentation confirming that this is, indeed, what has transpired. (Our earlier coverage of his case.) I have assisted him in finding a suitable Pennsylvania…
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The Fall 2014 PGR as seen from Fall 2016: a post for students deciding on graduate schools for 2016-17
MOVING TO FRONT–ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 30, 2016 What follows is my best judgment as to how the faculty changes in the interim should lead prospective PhD students to think about the relevant hierarchy of PhD programs in the U.S. and elsewhere compared to the 2014 survey results. Rather than offer a guestimate about an ordinal rank,…
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The real threat in public bathrooms?
Republican politicians.
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Rauner’s Newest IBHE Appointee and University Layoffs
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner recently appointed, Jack Thomas to the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE). Readers may remember my earlier guest post about the IBHE and program evaluations. Dr. Thomas is also the President of WIU. Today, President Thomas announced layoffs for 110 non-instructional staff. This is on top of the faculty layoffs announced…
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Philosophy PhD Applicants: You Have Until April 15th to Decide!
UPDATE: Moving to the front as a reminder (and I've had some reports, from faculty and students, of schools trying to force earlier decisions) ======================= A philosopher at a PhD program writes: "For the first time I'm involved with grad admissions, and we're already hearing from our candidates that we have waitlisted for fellowships that…
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We know the PGR site is down (thanks for e-mailing!)…
…but don't know why, but this happens periodically. Brit Brogaard is sending an inquiry to Blackwell.
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Pietroski from Maryland to Rutgers
Paul Pietroski (philosophy of language), Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park, has accepted appointment as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, effective fall 2017.
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Professor salaries up 3.4% in 2015-16
IHE has the details of the latest AAUP survey. IHE also reports the ten highest paying private and public research universities: Top Private University Faculty Salaries for Full Professors, 2015-16 (Average) 1. Columbia University $236,300 2. University of Chicago $232,400 3. Stanford University $229,600 4. Harvard University $220,200 5. Princeton University $215,900 6. New York…
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Bruce Rauner is a disgrace
Send him back to his country club. But seriously, this is why the Greeks used lotteries, to avoid having self-serving spoiled bozos running the polity.
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Dasgupta from Princeton to Berkeley
Shamik Dasgupta (metaphysics, philosophy of science), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, has accepted at tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, where he will be moving (he reports) "this summer."
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Matthew Ratcliffe. 2023. Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience. MIT Press (open access with no time limit) https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5524/Grief-WorldsA-Study-of-Emotional-Experience “Experiences…
Free Robot Labour: Marx, Automation, and the Future of AI by Jamie Terence Kelly https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-26782-5 Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 Permanently Open…
Nietzsche’s Ecce homo, Notebooks and Letters: 1888-1889. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. ©2023 Daniel Fidel Ferrer. All rights reserved. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…
I am reading 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 with mixed feelings. It is, in various ways, moderate and careful, and it certainly…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that
Cambridge makes new volumes in its Elements series freely available for a couple of weeks following publication. My own “Innateness…