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The NRC Rankings Aren't Officially Released Until This Afternoon...

...but already serious mistakes are being alleged in the data collection and processing. "Garbage in, garbage out," as the first link puts it. (I should add that inaccurate data appears to be the least of the problems.)

Harvard and Marty Peretz Redux

Robert Paul Wolff has the details of the event. Kudos to Professor Wolff for doing the right thing!

The National Research Council Will Release Its Rankings of Graduate Programs for 2005-06 Tomorrow

I'll have more to say then, but now seems a good time to bring forward Ned Block's earlier comments about the methodology and its peculiarities: I am not criticizing using polling to derive rankings. That is what the PGR does...

"Gender and Philosophical Intuition"

Wesley Buckwalter (CUNY) and Stephen Stich (Rutgers) have posted this remarkable paper on SSRN: In recent years, there has been much concern expressed about the under-representation of women in academic philosophy. Our goal in this paper is to call attention...

New Philosophy Major Approved for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi--So How Does One Recruit Majors?

Philosopher Don Berkich (Texas A&M-Corpus Christi) writes: In the midst of all the bad news for philosophy from Middlesex and Southern Mississippi, it may be heartening to announce that the Texas A&M System board approved the Philosophy Major at A&M-Corpus...

3 Quarks Philosophy Blogging Prizes

Here. Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia) is clearly a very generous critic! In the comments, "Tomkow," one of the winners, suggests all philosophy will soon be blogged. I'm not sure if he was joking.

Weimar America?

My former colleague Sandy Levinson (Texas) comments.

Speaking of commenting policies...

...I have one too, and newer readers might want to take a look at it, though they may have already inferred its contours.

Sorry for the No News Day

Once each year, the University of Chicago Law School hosts its alumni on the law teaching market for a day of mock job talks and interviews before the hiring convention, and I am one of the organizers of the event--which...

"Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science"

A new group blog, featuring a diverse cast of philosophers, including many who will be well-known to readers of this blog as incisive commenters on threads here, including Mark Lance, Eric Schliesser, Jon Cogburn, and John Protevi--hopefully, they won't stop...