Brian Leiter's Blog, page 22

Reader experiences with peer review?

A reader writes: How do people feel about peer review? Does it really help? Has it made papers better in authors��� experience? There is an overwhelming amount of commentary about how peer review is no longer in any sense the...

Nagel on J.L. Austin and his role in WWII...

...at the London Review of Books. A side of Austin most won't have known! (Thanks to Christopher Morris and David Zimmerman for pointers.)

Highlights from the summer blog: June

Now that my summer blogging quasi-hiatus is ending (see here for the new schedule), here are some summer highlights, for those who may have missed them, starting with June: In Memoriam: Henry E. Allison (1937-2023) In Memoriam: Richard W. Miller...

More on the film about Spinoza's ex-communication

From an Israeli newspaper. (Earlier coverage: here and here.) (Thanks to David Livingstone Smith for the pointer.)

More on the Harvard Business School professor accused of fraud who is now suing

We noted the case here and here, and now Professor Gino's law school colleaige Larry Lessig has written in her defense: Data Colada [a blog] offers compelling evidence that the data in four papers were manipulated. But as they plainly...

Article on whether U.S. legal system is ready for the "challenge of A.I. to human values" includes citations that seem to have been made up by Chat GPT!

Legal philosopher Matthew Kramer (Cambridge) called this article to my attention; Professor Kramer explains: [T]here is a citation to the book LEGAL POSITIVISM: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION by Matthew H. Kramer and published by the Edinburgh University Press. The problem is...

MacIntyre on the moral philosophy of the 20th-century...

...and a synoptic account of the evolution of his own views. I found his explanation of the relevance of Marxism to his intellectual evolution particularly interesting: Marx and Engels had argued that every morality is the morality of some particular...

In Memoriam: Stephen Gaukroger (1950-2023)

Emeritus at the University of Sydney, Professor Gaukgroger was a leading scholar of early modern philosophy and science. His Google Scholar page gives a good sense of the range of his work and erudition. Comments are open for remembrances from...

Blast from the past: "Bullying and harassment" at UBC

Back in 2015. I wonder if it is still as dysfunctional today?

Nearly $3 million from Templeton Foundation to Notre Dame...

...to develop courses on "human flourishing," under the direction of philosopher Meghan Sullivan.