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Great moments in obscure rock 'n' roll: Terry Reid, "Tinker Tailor," 1968

Terry Reid was the British blues rock singer who was Jimmy Page's first choice as lead singer for the band he was forming that became Led Zeppelin. Reid turned Page down, and recommended Robert Plant, and the "rest is history"...

Lange from North Carolina to Rutgers

Marc Lange (philosophy of science and physics), currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolinat at Chapel Hill, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he will start this...

Pavese from Cornell to Oxford

Carlotta Pavese (philosophy of mind & cognitive science, philosophy of language), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, has accepted a professorship at Oxford University, with a Fellowship at St. Catherine's College.

APA announces Spring prizes...

...including the Dewey Lecturers, the Lebowitz Prize, and the Romanell Lecture, among others.

"Against the Metaphysical Turn in Recent American Jurisprudence"

A new paper that may be of interest to those who follow literature in jurisprudence; it will appear in my forthcoming book, From a Realist Point of View (Oxford University Press, 2026), which will include previously published papers (some revised...

Princeton, the richest university in the U.S., asks all departments to make plans for permanent 5-10% budget cuts, warns of possible lay-offs

Yikes! The linked article suggests the looming increase in endowment tax is the culprit, since Princeton would pay the highest rate: [The House bill] still uses the same $500,00 per-student threshold for the original 1.4 percent endowment tax, which was...

A wide-ranging interview with philosopher Galen Strawson

Here.

Legal challenges to the actions of the Trump Administration

All in once place, via thje Just Security site! (Thanks to John Bullock for the pointer.)

Philosopher Alex Guerrero talks about lottocracy...

...at Brain in a Vat.

Republican proposals for endowment tax coming into focus

CHE reports (drawing on various sources, which have slightly different details): [T]he proposed new system would be tiered, and only colleges with endowments valued at more than $750,000 per student would pay a higher tax rate. (Currently, colleges that have...