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Brian Leiter
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In the choices of positions for those currently in law teaching positions (e.g., “Professor,” “Lecturer” etc.), there is no provision for those who are “teaching” professors or “professors from practice” (or “professor of the practice”), which are increasingly common titles. Please think about adding those!...
Philosopher Daniel Wodak writes: I was wondering if you had any advice on the following issue, which might be a good topic for your blog. CUP asked me to sign an addendum authorizing them to in effect use the text of my Element in training LLMs, with the promise that I’d get 20% of unspecified royalties. This...
Let’s hope it happens, but this will require the prudent wing of the ruling class, i.e., the Democrats, to ‘betray’ the (short-term) interests of their class, much as FDR did. (As some readers will know, FDR was regularly accused of being a traitor to his class, whereas in reality he saved them from extinction.)
Professor Graham was well-known for his work in philosophy of mind, psychology and psychiatry. Philosopher Eddy Nahamias at Georgia State kindly shared this obituary: After a long illness, George Graham died at his home in Birmingham, Alabama on July 2, 2026. After earning his BA in philosophy from Fordham in 1967,...
My thanks to Adrian Kreutz (Amsterdam) for this friendly review of my latest book, about which he writes: Leiter’s new volume…is both a fantastic foray into, and recapitulation of, the many forms realism has taken in philosophy and jurisprudence. It builds on the American tradition, but goes beyond that—or, in any...
The CHE reporter Stephanie Lee does a really good job trying to get Professor Rouse to actually answer questions, but Professor Rouse’s responses mostly serve to confirm the doubts expressed about her field in the Boghossian Report. It’s a shame, because I am a huge fan of a lot of work done in anthropology. One of...
Here. I haven’t had time to compare this to Professor Kramnick’s rejoinder to the official Report, but if any readers have taken the time to examine both Appiah’s report on literary studies, and Kramnick’s essay, please feel free to post your assessment. Signed comments will be preferred (i.e., full name and valid...
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An interesting case. It seems like the right decision: firing a tenured professor was wildly disproportionate to the offense, given the professor’s strong record. It was no doubt crucial that the San Jose State faculty is unionized.
Ms. Kierans is the daughter of an old friend; she is now a student at the University of Virginia. The friend did not ask me to post this, but I told the old friend I would because I was so impressed with her “indie-style” music and her stunning voice. Her songs are available on Spotify, Apple etc. I don’t have a...
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