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Sussex declares philosophy lecturer "redundant" then advertises for the courses he teaches! (UPDATED)

This looks bad: the whole point of "redundancy" in the UK is the claim that the position is not needed, but this suggests the opposite. UPDATE: Philosopher David Wallace writes: I think this is more complicated than it looks. The...

Sussex declares philosophy lecturer "redundant" then advertises for the courses he teaches!

This looks bad: the whole point of "redundancy" in the UK is the claim that the position is not needed, but this suggests the opposite.

Another UK academic (a law professor, no less) loses her job for having incorrect views about gender (UPDATED)

Oy veh. UPDATE: An academic in the UK writes: I know terminology is different in the US, but in the UK Almut Gadow isn't (or rather wasn't) a "law professor". As far as I can tell, she was employed as...

Another UK academic (a law professor, no less) loses her job for having incorrect views about gender

Oy veh.

Nathan Oseroff-Spicer still defaming philosophers: this time he falsely accuses a philosopher of plagiarism

Susan Neiman wrote a book, Left is not Work, that we noted here. Mr. Oseroff-Spicer, familiar to longtime readers as a paragon of crazed wokeness in philosophy, was bound not to like this book. That's not notable. What is notable...

An amusing takedown of those serial enemies of academic freedom, Michael Berube and Jennifer Ruth...

...written by an actual scholar, and defender, of academic freedom, law professor Matthew Finkin (Illinois). (Earlier items on the dangerous duo.)

Memorial conference at Princeton for Gilbert Harman

September 30-October 1.

Great moment in (somewhat) obscure rock 'n' roll: "Comin' Home," 1971

The duo Delaney & Bonnie had a lot of prominent friends with whom they played, and they enjoyed some modest success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, mostly for work with Eric Clapton. This is a song co-written with...

"Realist Jurisprudence: Selected Essays" in Spanish

Coming this fall, courtesy of Professor Francisco Mora-Sifuentes (a legal philosopher at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico) and published by Zela Grupo Editorial, the leading South American publisher of legal philosophy. These are Spanish translations of different English essays...

Hurka Fest at the University of Toronto

Coming up September 8-9, in honor of his retirement. (Readers know that I do not generally post conference announcements, but I do make an exception for memorial events and for events like this in honor of distinguished senior figures in...