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Brian Leiter
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Here (the full essay is behind a paywall, alas–but here are some excerpts).
…for exercising her First Amendment rights after the murder of Charlie Kirk. She did not, however, get her job back, but my guess she will walk away with more than one million of the settlement. Hopefully these kinds of payouts will teach spineless administrators something the next time the exercise of First...
A propos this earlier post, another Exeter faculty member asks, [W]hy, even if they need to make savings, are these overwhelmingly concentrated on humanities and social sciences? 85% of all staff placed at risk of redundancy (445 out of 523 FTE) are based in HASS (humanities and social sciences). That amounts to a...
….as well as remarks by the four commentators: Hans Halvorson, James Ladyman, Michela Massimi, and Kyle Stanford.
This time from philosopher Richard Moran (Harvard), who makes some interesting points. Those following the debates about the report should read this.
Too many awful decisions since last week, it’s hard to know which one to single out, but Michael Dorf at Cornell is good on today’s decision gutting independent federal agencies and “empower[ing]…a corrupt, vindictive narcissist whose preferred replacements for subject-area experts are sycophantic ignoramuses.”
Here, almost a decade on from the defamatory harassment of her orchestrated by the “usual suspects” in academic philosophy. We first wrote about this misconduct here, and quite a bit thereafter. An amusing bit from the interview: Goldstein: Two hallmarks of the Hypatia crisis strike me as relevant to other academic...
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 after the 2024 PGR were reflected in the faculty list, because the editors knew...
…Professor Bruce Ackerman at Yale–an appropriate choice!
Seth Lazar (applied ethics, philosophy and AI), currently Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, has accepted a senior offer form the new School of Government and Policy at Johns Hopkins University (which is in Washington, DC, rather than Balitmore, where most of the university is located),...
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