Year in Review
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2025 in review, 4th quarter: October, November, December (moving to front from Dec. 31 for those who may have missed it)
October On dreading the AI future Journals that publish symposia on recent books? Still more on the authoritarianism unfolding daily Williamson “the bullet-biter” The U.S. “Insurrection Act” is our “Enabling Act” “Bloodless pedantry“ H1-B visas and the $100,000 fee: the latest November What is the University of Chicago’s “Committee on Social Thought”? Most cited living…
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2025 in review, 3rd quarter: July, August, September (moving to front from Dec. 30 for those who may have missed it)
July The SCOTUS decision on nationwide (or “universal”) injunctions Let’s remember some facts, the propaganda barrage of the Trumpistas notwithstanding The worst President in the history of the U.S. has now ruled for six months (a list of his malfeasance) Does your university/college have a faculty hiring freeze? August It did happen here The University…
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2025 in review, 2nd quarter: April, May, June (MOVING TO FRONT FROM DEC. 29 FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE MISSED IT)
April OUP’s policies on providing books for review An interview in the Shanghai Review of Books Information on the European job market? Getting ChatGPT to take a stand The Trump war on universities Another journal, this time in math, abandons Wiley Suitably scathing assessment of the first two months of Trump War on the universities,…
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2025 in review, 1st quarter: January, February, March (moving to front from Dec. 26, for those who may have missed it)
January What articles in general jurisprudence form the first quarter of the 21st-century should you read? PGR in the real world, an ongoing saga The monster child’s first day with political power Should book authors consent to have generative AI train on their work? Tonight we’ll learn something about the next four years in America…
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Philosophers who died, 2025 edition
Memorial notices for the following philosophers were included on the blog this past year: Barry Allen, Karl Ameriks, George Bealer, Tom Beauchamp, Paul Benacerraf, Margaret Boden, Harry Deutsch, Michael Friedman, Paul Kalligas, David Keyt, Jonathan Lear, Andrew Lugg, Alasdair MacIntyre, George Pappas, John Searle, Krister Segerberg, Lawrence Sklar, Joseph Ullian, Robert Paul Wolff. Memorial notices,…
I don’t disagree with David Wallace, the things he says are to my mind obviously true. But I have a…