Brian Leiter's Blog, page 1437

Remember Monty Python's the German Philosophers vs. the Greek Philosophers in Football?

It's back.

In Memoriam: David J. Furley (1922-2010)

UPDATE: Moving to front from February 18: see Update. Obituary here. Professor Furley was a distinguished scholar of classical philosophy, emeritus profesor of classics at Princeton, and former director of the Program in Classical Philosophy there. (Thanks to Sean Kelsey...

John Searle (Berkeley) Elected to American Philosophical Society

A full list of new members is here; Searle was the only philosopher elected this year.

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

...here. The international outcry did, in fact, cause administrators at King's College, London to revise some (alas, not all) of their plans. We may hope that a similar response in this case will have some effect. As a commenter on...

Middlesex University in the U.K. Cuts Its Highest RAE-Rated Program in Its Entirety!

And it's the Philosophy Department. What could be the explanation for this bizarre decision? Thoughts from readers. Signed comments strongly preferred.

Unionizing Grad Students...

...at NYU again. Earlier discussions here and here.

"On the Human," Again

So my 2,500 words on "Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement: Developing an Argument from Nietzsche" generated some 25,000 words of generally quite interesting and illuminating commentary (moral realists came out in force, as I had hoped!), to which I am,...

What do people in the audience think about during a philosophy talk?

This is funny, but do not read it if you're about to give a talk! (Thanks to Adam Kolber for the pointer.)

Leitgeb from Bristol to Ludwig Maximilians U (Munich)

Hannes Leitgeb, professor of philosophy and mathematics at the University of Bristol, has turned down the other senior offers reported last fall and accepted a Chair and an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University at Munich, where...

A moratorium on PhD Admissions?

Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA) writes: Perhaps, in light of the economic crisis, the bleak job market, the hiring freezes across the country, and the backlog of recent PhD's waiting for tenure-track jobs to open up (and so available for TA-ships and...