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Peter Ludlow asked ChatGPT to rank philosophers and departments…
…and the results are entertaining (and not wholly ridiculous, either, although some answers are bizarre): Download ChatGPT philosophy rankings
Where junior tenure-track faculty at the "top 20" PhD programs got their PhD, 2023-24 (corrected)
Here is where the current untenured tenure-track faculty in philosophy at the top twenty U.S. programs got their Ph.D. (or D.Phil.):
1. Harvard University (10)
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (7)
3. New York University (6)
4. Yale University (5)
5. Princeton University (4)
5. University of California, Berkeley (4)
7. Columbia University (3)…
Interview with Bob Goodin, former editor of JPP, in a Swedish philosophy journal, who discusses the disaster that "Open Access" has been for quality journals
Professor Goodin discusses the JPP fiasco, noted previously, although legal liability constrains what he can say:
I can’t say much about that episode, or dealings with Wiley around the journal more generally, without rendering myself liable to lawsuits for breach of ‘commercial-in-confidence’. Not, I hasten to add (to avoid other lawsuits), that they…
Mistranslation of Newton's First Law discovered after nearly 300 years…
…by philosopher Daniel Hoek at Virginia Tech!
A student Law Review Comment that solves a standing puzzle in First Amendment doctrine
Richard Stillman, a 3L here (with a PhD in philosophy), has just published a quite ingenious solution to the puzzle of what the Court’s test is for nonverbal “expressive” conduct, involving a judicious use of some philosophy of language. Free speech scholars should read this!
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2023/09/a-student-law-review-comment-that-solves-a-standing-puzzle-in-first-amendment-doctrine.html
Plato's Cave raising the rent
Sign of the times. (Thanks to Ethan Seidenberg for the pointer.)
Philosopher's Annual, ten top papers from 2022
From Patrick Grim:
The Philosopher’s Annual volume 42
from the literature of 2022
James Allen (Toronto), “Radicalism and Moderation in the New Academy,” from Phronesis
Elizabeth Barnes (Virginia), “Gender without Gender Identity: The Case of Cognitive Disability,” from Mind
Richard Bradley (LSE), “Impartial Evaluation under Ambiguity,” from Ethics
Sarah Buss (Michigan), “Personal ideals and the…
"Realist Jurisprudence: Selected Essays"
A Spanish translation by Dr. Francisco M. Mora-Sifuentes of eight of my essays on realist jurisprudence and related themes (with a new preface by me and an introduction by Dr. Natalia Scavuzzo from the University of Genoa) is now available from Zela, the leading South American publisher of legal philosophy.
God bless England…
…it may be a dying country, but its academics still know how to speak plainly. Here is the Cambridge Faculty of Divinity’s own accounting of the holders of the “Ely Professorship:”
John Martin Creed was born on 14 October 1889 in Leicester, the son of a local Vicar. He was educated at Wyggeston…