Brian Leiter's Blog, page 1435

Another Humanities Casualty of the UK Financial Crisis?

The Wellcome Trust is apparently pulling its financial support for the well-known History of Medicine Institute at University College London. There is a blog with news and a petition. At least this incident does not appear to involve mindless administrators...

Robert Paul Wolff Didn't Think Much of The Conference...

...but at least he's very funny about it. The portraits of Ackerman, Fletcher, and Weinrib are spot on. Of course, what strikes me is that, apart from Finnis and Murphy, there weren't, it appears, any serious "law and philosophy" folks...

Britain Has Voted...

...and while the mundane public worries about who is actually entitled to govern, readers here will surely want to know how the philosophers fared.

Most Cited Philosophers (born since 1900) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Here. I'm a little puzzled by the omission of H.L.A. Hart, but perhaps that is right--a casual, but not careful, search suggests he should be on the list. AN IMPORTANT CAVEAT: It appears Professor Schwitzgebel did not look at historical...

More Revealing Expenditure Choices by Middlesex "University" [sic]

Courtesy of Professor Protevi again.

Senator Lieberman of Connecticut Now to the Authoritarian Right of Glenn Beck

Impressive. Now imagine how these crypto-fascists will react if a serious terrorist act is successfully carried out in the U.S. (For non-U.S. readers who are fortunate enough to live in public cultures without the likes of Glenn Beck, you can...

What is Middlesex "University" [sic] Spending Its Money On, If Not Academic Subjects like Philosophy?

Why, administrators, of course. Can't have enough of those, and can't pay them enough, either.

It's election day in the UK!

And philosophers are on the ballot! Even a few Tories, which leads one commenter to observe: "I'm always surprised how educated people -nay, people trained to think analytically- can end up running for the Tories. Thinking freely and conservatising seem,...

Georgetown Makes Bid for South Florida's Kukla--SEE UPDATE

MOVING TO FRONT FROM MARCH 27--SEE UPDATE Rebecca Kukla (social epistemology, bioethics, philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, 18th-century philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida, has a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University....

On-Line Tutorial about Formal Methods in Political Philosophy...

...by the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, covering Rational Choice Theory, Collective Choice Theory, and Game Theory, and their use and abuse by philosophers. Some readers may find this very instructive.