Brian Leiter's Blog, page 5

Jack White, redux

I heard from lots of readers after my confession of not knowing who Mr. White (born Gillis) was, but suffice it to say, now I am informed! While I can't say I care for The White Stripes (his first band...

Lateral moves/retirements since the 2024 Philosophical Gourmet Report: 2025-26 edition

In addition to the separate posts announcing (generally tenured) faculty moves, I will keep a running list of all lateral moves (and retirements and deaths) not reflected in the faculty lists for the 2024 PGR (some moves that took place...

Penelope Maddy interviewed...

...by Nathan Ballantyne at The Workbench.

In Memoriam: Harry Deutsch (1942-2025)

Emeritus at Illinois State University, Professor Detusch was a leading contributor to philosophical logic and cognate areas during his long career. There is a memorial notice here, and do see the first comment by Nathan Salmon. Comments are open for...

Rock musician Jack White on Donald Trump

I'd never heard of White prior to this, but kudos to this guy for pulling no punches with the monster child: We'll know democracy and the rule of law are fully gone when people can't say things like this about...

More on the UChicago Humanities Division

The last proposal from the Humanities Dean (noted here) met with a lot of pushback, so the Dean issued a revised plan, more in line with that a faculty committee had recommended: "We will have a pause for all PhD...

Blast from the past: best/most important books in ethics of the last 200 years

Poll results, with reader discussion, back in 2011.

A beautifully apt description of Trump from historian Jack Rakove

Here: His overt acts, craven ambition, delusional beliefs, erratic behaviors, perpetual dishonesty, and mental capacities lie so many norms of deviation apart from all his presidential counterparts that he has to be taken as a unique case. There are other...

CHOICE reviews Edwards & Leiter on Marx

Gratifying to see this review of our book from Choice, which influences what libraries buy in particular: Karl Marx is simultaneously one of the most important and most mischaracterized philosophers of the last 200 years. And yet there has been...

Philosopher's Annual, 2024

Patrick Grim, the editor, has shared the results of this past year's selection process. I am pleased to see two papers I voted for (Riggle, Wodak) made the final cut! (I didn't vote/comment one way or the other on any...