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Brian Leiter
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A balanced account of the controversy that started on social media.
Professor Berman, who spent his career at Trinity College Dublin, was well-known for his work on Berkeley and also on Schopenhauer, and also wrote widely on Irish philosophy. The TCD memorial notice is here. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Berman or for those who wish to comment on...
After my prior blog service provider closed last year, I returned to Twitter to help build traffic for the blog at its new WordPress location (this one). That served its purpose–indeed, the blog is now running nearly 250,000 views per month even in summer. So I am returning to Bluesky, and will post blog links there...
Professor Soble, emeritus at the University of New Orleans, died last year. Philosopher Raja Halwani at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago kindly shared this lovely tribute to his friend and collaborator: A Tribute to Alan Soble Raja Halwani Alan Soble died on March 5, 2025. I didn’t know that he had died,...
Ships stuck because of the Strait of Hormuz blockage are breeding grounds for biological disaster.
Up to one-third of the faculty may be terminated, although in the law school, Chicago-Kent, it appears the number is lower (maybe one-fifth by some accounts). If readers have more details, please email me. The main source of the budgetary crisis is the decline in the enrollment of international students, no doubt...
Last January, we had a thread about how to protect the integrity of philosophy graduate admissions given the possibility that applicants might be using LLMs to generate some or all of their writing samples. I thought it would be useful to have a follow-up thread to see what worked and what didn’t. For those new to...
Oy veh. This comes on the heels of cuts in prior years at Lincoln. This round of cuts will affect philosophy, among many other units. The British university system is in serious crisis (although not because of “market ideology” [as the preceding piece says], but because of an unstable halfway house between “market...
Wittgenstein and Kant. Pretty weird! Has anyone tried these? Are they any good? (Thanks to Guy Elgat for the pointer.)
Robert Hopkins (aesthetics, philosophy of mind), Professor of Philosophy at New York University, will take up a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford University in October 2026.
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