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I ignore these emails, or I ask the sender to communicate from a real email address if the issue seems important. I promise to protect, as I have for a quarter-century now, the identities of faculty ...

Their letter to University leadership (earlier coverage): Dear President Cudd, Provost Chabon, Dean Rosenstiel, Associate Dean Carlson, and Associate Dean Oslund, We, the faculty of the Department of ...

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 ...

The penulimate version on SSRN, for a volume that OUP will publish on the legal philosophy of Leslie Green. The abstract: Leslie Green raised an important challenge to my reconstruction of the ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 24, 2024, FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE MISSED IT April Marx's critique of Stirner "On Gutting the Liberal Arts" "Law is a Moral Practice" (it isn't, actually, except sometimes ...

In the flurry of execcutive orders by the monster child, I missed this one; as CHE explains: Decades of higher-ed hiring and employment practices aimed at avoiding discrimination could be upended ...

Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in Canada. The situation in the U.S., where many (but certainly not all) of the top programs are ...

Political philosopher David Owen (at the University of Southampton in the UK) posted about this topic on FB, and then kindly offered to draft something for the blog, since it seemed to me this is ...