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University of Utah goes crazy
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/05/university-of-utah-goes-crazy.html
Published: May 19, 2025 16:50
Philosopher Cynthia Stark (Chair of the Department) describes the mayhem created by dumb legislation; an excerpt: The state has...banned Pride flags in public spaces (and in faculty offices if they can be seen through a window), and now requires faculty...
Richard Marshall interviews Henry Sidgwick...
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/05/richard-marshall-interviews-henry-sidgwick.html
Published: May 19, 2025 12:56
...at 3:16 am.
Peter Carruthers discusses his new book, "Explaining our Actions"...
Published: May 19, 2025 11:32
...at the Brains Blog.
Great moments in obscure rock 'n' roll: Terry Reid, "Tinker Tailor," 1968
Published: May 17, 2025 23:07
Terry Reid was the British blues rock singer who was Jimmy Page's first choice as lead singer for the band he was forming that became Led Zeppelin. Reid turned Page down, and recommended Robert Plant, and the "rest is history"...
Lange from North Carolina to Rutgers
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/05/lange-from-north-carolina-to-rutgers.html
Published: May 17, 2025 22:54
Marc Lange (philosophy of science and physics), currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolinat at Chapel Hill, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he will start…
Pavese from Cornell to Oxford
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/05/pavese-from-cornell-to-oxford.html
Published: May 15, 2025 15:44
Carlotta Pavese (philosophy of mind & cognitive science, philosophy of language), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, has accepted a professorship at Oxford University, with a Fellowship at St. Catherine's College.
APA announces Spring prizes...
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/05/apa-announces-spring-prizes.html
Published: May 15, 2025 15:02
...including the Dewey Lecturers, the Lebowitz Prize, and the Romanell Lecture, among others.
Lateral moves/retirements since the 2024 Philosophical Gourmet Report: 2024-25 edition
Published: May 15, 2025 14:02
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...
"Against the Metaphysical Turn in Recent American Jurisprudence"
Published: May 14, 2025 22:18
A new paper that may be of interest to those who follow literature in jurisprudence; it will appear in my forthcoming book, From a Realist Point of View (Oxford University Press, 2026), which will include previously published papers (some revised...
Princeton, the richest university in the U.S., asks all departments to make plans for permanent 5-10% budget cuts, warns of possible lay-offs
Published: May 14, 2025 13:50
Yikes! The linked article suggests the looming increase in endowment tax is the culprit, since Princeton would pay the highest rate: [The House bill] still uses the same $500,00 per-student threshold for the original 1.4 percent endowment tax, which was...
A wide-ranging interview with philosopher Galen Strawson
Published: May 14, 2025 13:15
Here.
Legal challenges to the actions of the Trump Administration
Published: May 13, 2025 15:54
All in once place, via thje Just Security site! (Thanks to John Bullock for the pointer.)
Philosopher Alex Guerrero talks about lottocracy...
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/05/philosopher-alex-guerrero-talks-about-lottocracy.html
Published: May 13, 2025 11:41
...at Brain in a Vat.
Republican proposals for endowment tax coming into focus
Published: May 12, 2025 14:02
CHE reports (drawing on various sources, which have slightly different details): [T]he proposed new system would be tiered, and only colleges with endowments valued at more than $750,000 per student would pay a higher tax rate. (Currently, colleges that…
Spacetime, Einstein, and the Hole Argument
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/05/spacetime-einstein-and-the-hole-argument.html
Published: May 12, 2025 12:39
Philosopher John Norton discusses at IAITV.
Trumpistas threatening to suspend habeas corpus for migrants
Published: May 12, 2025 11:31
Trump's henchman Stephen Miller, who not only thinks like Joseph Goebbels but looks like him (see below the fold), has indicated that they are "thinking" [sic] of suspending habeas corpus for migrants. Law professor Stephen Vladeck has a clear…