Brian Leiter's Blog, page 26

"Peter Turchin's False Prophecy"

A quite interesting essay; a longish excerpt from near the end of the essay: The great compression was rooted in the reforms of the New Deal and the expansion of union power, but it was World War II and the...

Philosopher Aaron Preston talks about the history of analytic philosophy and "personalism"...

...with Richard Marshall at 3:16 AM.

Katja Thieme gets her moment of Internet fame

In a charitable spirit, I once described Professor Thieme--an Associate Professor of Teaching in the English Department at the University of British Columbia--as "rabid and deranged," and people like that inevitably become Internet famous at some moment given their lack...

Great moments in (somewhat) obscure rock 'n' roll: Professor Longhair, "Big Chief," 1980

Another paragon of "New Orleans blues" (like Dr. John, whom we featured two months back), there are many versions of "Big Chief" out there, but this is his 1980 version: Feel free to add links to other Professor Longhair favorites...

Psychologist at Harvard Business School sues her school and the blog that accused her of fraudulent research practices

We noted her case here; the complaint is here: Download Gino complaint. I will note that an innocent person should sue in a context like this, and doing so will subject her to even more searching inquiry and examination in...

This blog started 20 years ago today

You can see my remarks on the 14th anniversary (in the wake of the rise of the Wokerati in philosophy [see #6 in particular]) and the 10th. The biggest change since 2017 (the 14th anniversary) has been the rise of...

Fraser from Toronto back to Hong Kong

Chris Fraser, an expert in Chinese philosophy, who moved to the University of Toronto from the University of Hong Kong in 2021, has, according to his homepage, returned to Hong Kong "initially as Vice-Chancellor Visiting Professor" of philosophy at the...

I seem to be catching on in Asia

Last year, a Japanese translation of Nietzsche on Morality came out, and now I've learned a Chinese translation is in the works, to be published by the Shanghai People's Publishing House. (There was a Greek translation about a decade ago,...

Changes to philosophy pedagogical practices in light of AI?

Philosopher Klaas Kray (Toronto Metropolitan University) is collecting information from philosophy teachers.

"The Indian Pragmatist"

Here.