Brian Leiter's Blog, page 20

New APA Prize in ethics in honor of Stephen J. White...

...who taught philosophy at Northwestern and died tragically young.

What if AI is making our lives worse?

Philosopher Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin discusses.

Authoritarian rulers need friends in the capitalist class....

...and Shari Redstone, owner of Paramount (which owns CBS), is one.

Law professor Michael Klarman on Congressional Republicans: "One of the most shameful capitulations in American history"

Indeed.

8 philosophers elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

They are: Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins), Noel Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center), Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins), Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern), Liam Murphy (NYU), Peter Singer (Princeton), and Oystein Linnebo (Oslo). In addition, philosopher Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin) was elected in the Education section...

Blast from the past: Trump, the fascist wannabe

Back in 2015--I was right about one thing (he wanted to rule as a tyrant) and spectacularly wrong about another!

An interview with Graham Priest about Wittgenstein, paradox...

...truth, and non-Western philosophy.

"The Authoritarian Attack on Truth"

Philosopher Michae Lynch comments.

Statement from Jewish faculty at Northwestern University...

...on the attempts to weaponize anti-semitism to attack academic freedom and university autonomy.

Valparaiso University in Indiana axes philosophy program, major and minor,...

...and several other programs. The lone tenured philosopher remaining, Aaron Preston, will lose his job at the end of 2024-25, so will be in the market for new positions.