Brian Leiter's Blog, page 2

A philosopher's "reply to the reviewers"

This is amusing. (Thanks to John Martin Fischer for the pointer.)

Heads up: the blog format may change for a couple of days....

...as part of the process of exporting to Wordpress. Don't worry, the world is not ending (yet!).

Speaking of authoritarian suppression of speech, Texas State University needs to be sued...

...for firing a tenured history professor for completely lawful political speech (what he is reported to have said comes nowhere near legally actionable "incitement" to violence--it is not even close). I hope the AFA and FIRE are on this one,...

Authoritarian suppression of political speech now slipping across the border to Canada

Unsurprisingly, given the way the U.S. is going, those who reacted incorrectly to the murder of a far right activist this past week have been losing their jobs, even in academia. The sheer hypocrisy of the Republican Party when it...

Women earn an increasing share of PhDs in philosophy (more than a third now)

Interesting data via Professor Schwitzgebel. I can imagine a couple of factors that have contributed to this trend, which seems to have gotten under way in the early part of the last decade. First, starting about 15 yeras ago, many...

Open access philosophy books: a thread, part III

The last thread had 22 subnissions, so I thought it's time for a third thread. Instructions as before: In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread periodically in which I invite authors...

Political violence has unintended consequences

I have very little to add to what Ezra Klein said about the horrific public murder yesterday of a far right activist, the latest ugly event in a series of attacks on public political figures. We don't yet know whether...

Blast from the past: Most influential works of Anglophone philosophy published 2000 and onwards (based on 2020 citations)

Back in 2020.

A song for the most dangerous imbecile in America, RFK Jr. ("Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard")

Fascism comes to the classroom at Texas A&M

This is the insane but predictable consequence of Trump and the Texas Repugs. The teacher, a senior lecturer, was fired. As incidents like this multiply, public universities in Texas will be finished as major research institutions. What a disaster.