Brian Leiter's Blog, page 9

More signs of the times: Duke Medicine to cut salaries of tenured faculty who do not meet certain external grant thresholds

Duke Medicine is, by all metrics, a major biomedical research center, so this is a quite dramatic move, coming at a time when, of course, NIH grants are much harder to get due to the Trumpistas. If this doesn't produce...

Are numbers real?

Eklund vs. Kodsi, at The Philosopher's Magazine.

Two philosophers elected to the British Academy

They are: Hasok Chang (Cambridge) and David Papineau (King's College, London).

Great moments in obscure rock 'n' roll: Tony Joe White, "Polk Salad Annie," 1969

The original "swamp rocker" (a mix of rockabilly, blues, and soul), Louisianan Tony Joe White had one top hit in his career, from his debut album, which he here performs on British TV in 1970: Please post links to other...

Let's remember some facts, the propaganda barrage of the Trumpistas notwithstanding

Because of the megaphone of the Trumpistas, aided and abetted by the mass media, it is easy to forget how much falsehood is being forced upon us on a daily basis, some of which is then taken up by the...

Hegel the political realist?

I'm skeptical, but philosopher Jake McNulty makes an interesting case.

A simply remarkable first-hand account of the Texas flood

Gripping and also hearbreaking.

The online Republican party has merged with fascists and racists...

...can the real party be far behind? An excerpt: The key ingredient to this online soup is extremism: from nativism to racial science, to casual neo-Nazism and textbook misogyny. Presented to followers via livestreams, memes and X posts, this deluge...

Bender from G��ttingen to LMU Munich

Sebastian Bender, "Assistant Professor" at the University of G��ttingen, has accepted appointment as Professor of Early Modern Philosophy ("Associate Professor" equivalent; "W2 Professor" in Munich's system) at LMU Munich. That's the second senior hire for LMU Munich this year.

Hedden from ANU to MIT

Brian Hedden (epistemology, decision theory, ethics [incl. ethics of AI]), Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, has accepted a senor offer from the Department of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.