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Lateral moves/retirements since the 2024 Philosophical Gourmet Report: 2024-25 edition
Published: May 2, 2025 14:26
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...
Brake from Rice to Wisconsin/Madison
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/05/brake-from-rice-to-wisconsinmadison.html
Published: May 1, 2025 15:40
Elizabeth Brake (ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, she she will start next…
Law prof Michael Dorf on Trump's lawlessness
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/04/law-prof-michael-dorf-on-trumps-lawlessness.html
Published: April 30, 2025 18:04
A remarkable catalogue, that deserves to be shared widely. Unless the courts, the other branches of government and civil society get serious about this soon, we're doomed. (As Professor Dorf notes, only one law professor of the 35 that the...
Federal judge frees Columbia philosophy student unlawfully detained by the Trumpistas
Published: April 30, 2025 15:42
Good, but now it remains to be seen what the next move of the fascists will be.
Art of the aphorism, part 2
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/04/art-of-the-aphorism-part-2.html
Published: April 30, 2025 13:53
"We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we end by disguising ourselves from ourselves." --La Rochefoucauld
In Memoriam: Karl Ameriks (1947-2025)
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/04/in-memoriam-karl-ameriks-1947-2025.html
Published: April 29, 2025 20:59
Professor Ameriks, a longtime member of the philosophy faculty at the University of Notre Dame, where he was emeritus, was an internationally renowned expert on Kant and German Idealism. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor…
DOE's Office of Civil Rights finds Penn in voilation of Title IX...
Published: April 29, 2025 15:06
...for letting a trans woman compete on the women's swimmng team. It's not clear to me what "investigation" was actually undertaken, but at least the proposed remedies do not involve cutting off federal funding for health and science research! In...
Now the National Science Foundation starts cancelling grants
Published: April 29, 2025 12:18
A report from Northwestern University, but I don't know how widespread this is yet. The targets at Northwestern are all "DEI"-related in some sense or others. Are cancellations reaching beyond that, and is this affecting other schools? Links to more...
Virtual dissertation groups, 2025
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/04/virtual-dissertation-groups-2025.html
Published: April 29, 2025 11:09
From Joshua Smart: Virtual Dissertation Groups (VDG) is shifting to a summer schedule. Open sign ups for this summers’ groups go through Saturday, May 10th at www.jasmartphilosophy.com/virtual-dissertation-groups. What it is: Virtual Dissertation Groups is…
Lateral moves/retirements since the 2024 Philosophical Gourmet Report: 2024-25 edition
Published: April 28, 2025 22:15
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...
Art of the aphorism
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/04/art-of-the-aphorism.html
Published: April 28, 2025 13:17
"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily." --La Rochefoucauld
The media's mostly incompetent coverage of Trump's illegal rampage against the universities
Published: April 28, 2025 12:05
Josh Marshall makes the key point, using the New York Times as his target: I wanted to point your attention to this recent article from the Times on the battle between Trump and Harvard University. It captures the Times’ feature...
Consciousness and the allegedly "unified, objective" world
Published: April 28, 2025 10:55
Philosopher Christian List comments.
Great moments in obscure rock 'n' roll: Rory Gallagher, "Bullfrog Blues," live in 1976 and 1980
Published: April 26, 2025 21:07
ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 13, 2016 From the band Taste in the late 1960s, through his solo performances into the 1990s, the great Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher was a "big name" throughout Europe, but never got the same level of recognition...
More on the capricious deportation of human beings to the El Salvador concentration camp
Published: April 25, 2025 15:11
A striking account from NYT columnist Michelle Goldberg.
New APA Prize in ethics in honor of Stephen J. White...
Published: April 24, 2025 15:31
...who taught philosophy at Northwestern and died tragically young.
What if AI is making our lives worse?
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/04/what-if-ai-is-making-your-life-worse.html
Published: April 24, 2025 14:41
Philosopher Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin discusses.
Authoritarian rulers need friends in the capitalist class....
Published: April 24, 2025 12:35
...and Shari Redstone, owner of Paramount (which owns CBS), is one.
Law professor Michael Klarman on Congressional Republicans: "One of the most shameful capitulations in American history"
Published: April 24, 2025 11:20
Indeed.