Brian Leiter's Blog, page 19

In Memoriam: Karl Ameriks (1947-2025)

Professor Ameriks, a longtime member of the philosophy faculty at the University of Notre Dame, where he was emeritus, was an internationally renowned expert on Kant and German Idealism. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Ameriks...

DOE's Office of Civil Rights finds Penn in violation of Title IX...

...for letting a trans woman compete on the women's swimmng team. It's not clear to me what "investigation" was actually undertaken, but at least the proposed remedies do not involve cutting off federal funding for health and science research! In...

Now the National Science Foundation starts cancelling grants

A report from Northwestern University, but I don't know how widespread this is yet. The targets at Northwestern are all "DEI"-related in some sense or others. Are cancellations reaching beyond that, and is this affecting other schools? Links to more...

Virtual dissertation groups, 2025

From Joshua Smart: Virtual Dissertation Groups (VDG) is shifting to a summer schedule. Open sign ups for this summers��� groups go through Saturday, May 10th at www.jasmartphilosophy.com/virtual-dis.... What it is: Virtual Dissertation Groups is a free service for those currently...

Lateral moves/retirements since the 2024 Philosophical Gourmet Report: 2024-25 edition

In addition to the separate posts announcing (generally tenured) faculty moves, I will keep a running list of all lateral moves (and retirements and deaths) not reflected in the faculty lists for the 2024 PGR (some moves that took place...

Art of the aphorism

"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily." --La Rochefoucauld

The media's mostly incompetent coverage of Trump's illegal rampage against the universities

Josh Marshall makes the key point, using the New York Times as his target: I wanted to point your attention to this recent article from the Times on the battle between Trump and Harvard University. It captures the Times��� feature...

Consciousness and the allegedly "unified, objective" world

Philosopher Christian List comments.

Great moments in obscure rock 'n' roll: Rory Gallagher, "Bullfrog Blues," live in 1976 and 1980

ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 13, 2016 From the band Taste in the late 1960s, through his solo performances into the 1990s, the great Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher was a "big name" throughout Europe, but never got the same level of recognition...

More on the capricious deportation of human beings to the El Salvador concentration camp

A striking account from NYT columnist Michelle Goldberg.