Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
Brian Leiter
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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...
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...
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...
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.
There’s a website that answers this pressing question! It’s an interesting snapshot of philosophy and elite intellectual culture at the time. Among the guests was the logician Henry Sheffer, about whom we learn: Henry Maurice Sheffer...
A propos this, another old study from 2006: This study examined which schools are most successful at placing their graduates in “top” law school teaching positions. “Top” law schools for this purpose meant schools that either (1) are...
…in CHE. What happened to his wife, the evolutionary biologist Carol Hooven, is really awful, and should perhaps remind the zealots that there are human costs to their sanctimonious crusades. Byrne does not come off, per the article’s...
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...
…and its disproportionate effect on the humanities and social sciences. I was sad to see that she felt the need to say this early on: “Important skills and capabilities – qualities we know employers value and the economy needs – are...
I recently got some information from Oxford University Press about book sales. Readers who wonder, “How much do philosophy books sell?” may find this interesting. I should note that Nietzsche books typically do well (by academic...
Professor Hill was a leading moral philosopher, known especially for his work on Kantian ethics. He was emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught from 1984 until his retirement in 2017 (he taught at...
…it might have occurred to him that murdering another country’s head of state (who was also a major religious figure) would result in threats like this to him and his family (see also). Of course, one suspects that the Iranians won’t...
The saga continues: philosopher Warren Goldfarb (emeritus, Harvard) shared the email below with me, suspecting it too was a scam: From: Amy Bloom <amybloom1254@gmail.com> Subject: Reflections on Logic, Philosophy, and Cultural Narratives...