Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
Brian Leiter
News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world’s most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.
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…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...
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...
….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...
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:...
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...
…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...
One story, how many others?
Amusing piece in The Economist. It would be nice if we had some actual figures on the number of philosophers being hired. Luciano Floridi “describes the scale of departures from philosophy departments as a ‘haemorrhaging,'” which is...
So reports the BBC. I reached out to the well-known philosopher of science and biology, John Dupre, at Exter, who tells me he has received a possible redundancy notice, although he is already 80% retired. He adds: I expect I’ll go...
And it doesn’t mince words. In this case, the task was assigned to EJ Spode, “who assembled the following crack team of elite scholars to work as a totally independent group to address the issues raised in the charge: Somerset Maugham,...
Jonathan Kramnick, a philosophically-minded English professor at Yale, has an interesting response to the “Boghossian Report” which is worth reading. Professor Kramnick agrees with the Report that, “When scholarship becomes subordinated...
Everyone should read this. Although Trump is a colossal screw up whose support is collapsing thanks to his incompetence, he has laid the foundation for massive political repression, for which the midterm elections seem the likely trigger...