Brian Leiter's Blog, page 1436

Woody Allen: Reading Too Much Schopenhauer?

So it would seem!

Please sign the petition in support of Philosophy at Middlesex...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 29--TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE, PLEASE SIGN IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO! ...here. The international outcry did, in fact, cause administrators at King's College, London to revise some (alas, not all) of their...

Speaking of Oxford Bibliographies Online...

...Duncan Pritchard (Edinburgh) informs me the philosophy site will go live soon.

"The Demarcation Problem in Jurisprudence: A New Case for Skepticism"

This is a draft of my contribution to the international jurisprudence conference at the University of Girona in Spain; the abstract: Legal philosophers have been preoccupied with specifying the differences between two systems of normative guidance that are omnipresent in...

"Given the extent to which the US rightwing movement relies on the deliberate promotion of ignorance...

how can anyone, regadless of their philosophical views on conservatism, libertarianism and so on, associate with this movement and maintain any intellectual integrity. The converse question for the left, is whether there is any benefit in engaging intellectually with anyone...

How the Academic Job Market Used to Work

From a recent installment of the memoirs of Robert Paul Wolff: The time has come for me to tell the story of how I was hired by Columbia University. This is all going to sound very odd to younger readers,...

A curious article on the Oxford Bibliographies Online Project...

...from IHE, which seems intent on generating controversy where there is none. Many philosophers have probably seen draft entries on various philosophy blogs. I myself have done the Nietzsche entry, and (with Michael Sevel) the entry on Legal Positivism. The...

On the Middlesex Fiasco

Excellent commentary, as always, from Iain Pears.

Arizona's Craziness Moves from Immigration into the Universities and Public Schools

Astonishing story here. (Thanks to Bennett Gilbert for the pointer.)

Owens from Sheffield to Reading

David Owens (epistemology, metaphysics, ethics), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading, to start this fall. That's a major pick-up for Reading, which already...