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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A propos this, here’s another older scholarly impact study (from June 2014): The last scholarly impact study, from 2012, conducted by Prof. Greg Sisk and colleagues at St. Thomas, using the methodology I have used previously, did not...
His former colleague Neil Feit kindly shared it with me: Amended Complaint for Civil-Rights Violations – Kershnar v KolisonDownload You can start reading from paragraph 52 onwards for a case study in how not to handle a public relations...
These four university President have participated in drafting a new “call to action” from Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive turned Secretary of Education, to the nation’s universities. Crow and Martin are no surprise, but...
This is strictly for those interested in Nietzsche (and Bernard Williams). A propos this post, here is the paper for those who do not have access to Google Drive (the Afterword starts at p. 21 of the typescript): Ch. 8 Bernard Williams...
Information about this organization and its events here. As legal philosopher Barbara Baum Levenbook (a member of the Executive Committee) wrote to me: The mission of The Collective is to promote and support women in legal philosophy and...
Based on my in-box and conversations with others, these were 10 moves that transpired this past year that were thought to be the biggest hiring coups: *Alejandro Camacho (environmental law, natural resources law) from the University of...
A balanced account of the controversy that started on social media.
Professor Berman, who spent his career at Trinity College Dublin, was well-known for his work on Berkeley and also on Schopenhauer, and also wrote widely on Irish philosophy. The TCD memorial notice is here. Comments are open for...
After my prior blog service provider closed last year, I returned to Twitter to help build traffic for the blog at its new WordPress location (this one). That served its purpose–indeed, the blog is now running nearly 250,000 views per...
Professor Soble, emeritus at the University of New Orleans, died last year. Philosopher Raja Halwani at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago kindly shared this lovely tribute to his friend and collaborator: A Tribute to Alan Soble...
Ships stuck because of the Strait of Hormuz blockage are breeding grounds for biological disaster.
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.)