Brian Leiter's Blog, page 1419

What's going on at Buffalo?

A non-academic named Interim President? Odd.

Vote for your favorite philosophy posts...

...here. Last year, they wisely ignored some of the vote results in selecting the finalists for review, and I assume they will do the same this year, though it looks to be a pretty good group of posts this year,...

Philosophy TV is Here!

Modelled on Bloggingheads, the aim here is for higher level philosophical discussion, which the current line-up of discussants (including Tamar Gendler, Eric Schwitzgebel, Craig Callender, Jonathan Schaffer, Joshua Knobe, and others) will certainly provide.

"Legal Formalism and Legal Realism: What is the Issue?"

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JULY 20, IN CASE ANYONE WHO (SENSIBLY!) DOESN'T READ BLOGS IN THE SUMMER MIGHT BE INTERESTED I have posted on SSRN a review essay of Brian Tamanaha's interesting recent book Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role...

Right-Wing Craziness about "Accountability" Will Destroy Texas A&M University

One can only hope this is a joke, or that the data will be ignored once collected. (We've noted this fiasco-in-the-making previously.)

New Philosopher' Carnival is...

...here.

What Obama Might Have More Accurately Said About the Criminal War of Aggression Against Iraq

Here. This being a high-minded, academic kind of place, let us also pause to remember some of the juvenile reasoning offered by putative intellectuals for the war of aggression against Iraq.

If you're living in Canada...

...you'll want to be aware of this effort to stop Fox-style lies and hate propaganda from migrating north.

Want to Rule Britain?

Study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford! (Thanks to Jonathan Wolff for the pointer.)

14 Tenured Professors at Southern Mississippi To Be Terminated

Not all in philosophy, obviously, but that's still a frightening number of careers and perhaps lives ruined. At a time when frivolous people are attacking tenure, and claiming that tenure means "lifetime jobs," terrible developments like this deserve notice.