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Since the Middlesex Administrators Are Confused About What "Universities" Do...

...perhaps someone should send them a copy of this book, which is, alas, all-too-timely.

Call for an Academic Boycott of Middlesex!

The petition is here, and it has the support of the philosophy faculty at Middlesex. I would, of course, urge all readers to sign, and I would also urge academics in other fields to sign and would ask philosophers to...

Joyce from Sydney to Victoria University/Wellington

Richard Joyce, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a leading writer in metaethics and moral psychology, has accepted an appointment as Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University, Wellington--where he will join Simon Keller, one of the...

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

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 are few and far between, and McMaster has an unusually...

More on the Middlesex Insanity

This site has more information and details about the suspension of students and faculty who were protesting the decision to eliminate the school's most highly RAE-rated program. In the United States, this kind of heavy-handed behavior by the administration would...

Seeking a "Minister for Women and Equalities"? Pick Someone Hostile to Gay Men and Women, Of Course

That's what the new Tory government has done in choosing Theresa May. N.A.T. Coleman (Michigan), who flagged this issue for me, summarizes the case against her in response to a column in The Guardian claiming that the petition against her...

More ACLS Fellowship News for 2010

Several philosophy faculty have won awards from the American Council of Learned Society fellowship competitions (full lists are here). ACLS Fellowships: Matthew Boyle (Harvard) and Tyler Burge (UCLA). Ryskamp Reearch Fellowship: Elisabeth Camp (Penn). Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured...

It's Now Official: The Middlesex Administration is Bonkers

They have suspended professors who participated with students in a sit-in protesting the elimination of the philosophy program. Protevi has details. Suspension?!?

The Attack on Academic Freedom at University of Virginia, Part II

A propos our earlier item, Richard Schragger, a law professor at UVA, has shared with me a copy of a very good letter (here: Download Letter to BOV RE CID May 18) he and many colleagues have sent to the...

The Wicked Never Rest, Part 719

In this case,the ruling class.