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For Chicago Students: Next Year's Teaching

This is strictly for University of Chicago students, regarding my teaching next year: For 2010-11, I'll be doing the Law & Philosophy Workshop (with Ben Laurence) on the general topic of "Disagreement". This is open to JD and PhD students...

More fun with Columbia's Tenure-Bashing Mark C. Taylor

Here; an excerpt: I've been bumped off course by Mark C. Taylor's recent end-of-career proposal to retire the entire institution of tenure along with himself. This has caused me to think about things I would have preferred not to be...

The Real Ethical Scandal in Congress

This seems right, though just the tip of an iceberg of morally abhorrent behavior by elected representativ. Consider the fact that Congress is populated with members who opposed a morally decent healthcare system or who supported the criminal war of...

Deformations of Democracy Watch, Part 918

This time in California.

Thoughts on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy--"a disciplinary treasure"

A senior philosopher writes: Have you thought about commenting, or inviting discussion, of the entries in SEP? I'm a big fan of the project, and contributed several pieces, but my RSS feed of recent entries has raised my brows in...

Nice Opportunity for Graduate Students Working In and Around Philosophy of Law

MOVING TO FRONT FROM MAY 26: THE DEADLINE IS APPROACHING! At McMaster University in Hamilton (about an hour from Toronto) next May. I don't usually do these kinds of announcements, but opportunities like this for students in philosophy of law...

Philosophers' Annual: Ten Best Papers of 2009

They are: Selim Berker (Harvard), "The Normative Insignificance of Neuroscience", Philosophy & Public Affairs 37:4, 293-329 Rachael Briggs (Sydney), "Distorted Reflection", Philosophical Review 118:1, 59-85 James Dreier (Brown), "Relativism (and Expressivism) and the Problem of Disagreement", Philosophical Perspectives 23:1, 79-110...

Anglophone "Left" Political Philosophy, Part 2

Here.

Another Round of Attacks on Academic Freedom in Israel

This time Sociology is the target. Isn't it nice to know that the right-wingers everywhere are the same? (Thanks to Alon Harel for the pointer.) UPDATE: Still more ugliness from the Israeli right. Discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always...

Another Round of Attacks in Academic Freedom in Israel

This time Sociology is the target. Isn't it nice to know that the right-wingers everywhere are the same? (Thanks to Alon Harel for the pointer.)