Brian Leiter's Blog, page 1424

The NY Times Philosophy Blog, Again

Timothy Williamson (Oxford) has a very successful short piece in the most recent installment. (I have not really kept up with it the last few weeks, so there may have been other rewarding items.)

A fine excoriation of Mark C. Taylor

Thanks to Daniel O'Connell for calling my attention to this: Taylor's data-free ruminations bear as much connection to the actual world of higher education as Scientology does to particle physics. He's the fellow that bemoaned per-course salaries "as low as"...

Another Informative Piece on the Hauser Scandal at Harvard

Here. This was, to my mind, the most striking bit: Whatever the problems in Dr. Hauser's lab, they eventually led to an insurrection among his staff, said Michael Tomasello, a psychologist who is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for...

"Read Ayn Rand"

As far as I can gather, this is not a joke. (Thanks to Jack Beaudoin for the pointer.)

Mark Taylor's Continuing Damage

"No ideas and the ability to express them: that's a journalist," said Karl Kraus. But as a corollary: "No ability to discern good from bad ideas, and the ability to repeat the worst ones: that's a journalist too." And since...

Soak the super rich...

...and leave the law professors alone.

There are relatively few Stanford professors who are candidates for the death penalty...

...under international law precedents, but Professor Rice is one. But Professor Gilbert is more forgiving.

There are relatively few Stanford professors who are candidates for hanging...

...under international law precedents, but Professor Rice is one. But Professor Gilbert is more forgiving.

Putting a Price on Academic Freedom

One school has settled on a number. (Thanks to C.E. Emmer for the pointer.)

In Memorian: Mary Anne Warren (1946-2010)

A feminist philosopher, Professor Warren taught for many years at San Francisco State University, and was especially well-known for widely anthologized and discussed work in bioethics, especially on abortion. (As with Professor Mueller, if anyone knows the year of Professor...