5 天之前 · I've been periodically announcing open access books, sometimes in the Cambridge Elements series, where books are available for free for a couple of weeks or a month upon publication, and sometimes books for which authors have paid for permanet open access (see, e.g., OUP's terms). In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread periodically in which I invite authors ...

6 天之前 · News and views about philosophy—both the subject and the academic profession—as well as other aspects of university life and political culture, including academic freedom, neoliberalism, identity politics, and Marxism.

4 天之前 · I've been periodically announcing open access books, sometimes in the Cambridge Elements series, where books are available for free for a couple of weeks or a month upon publication, and sometimes books for which authors have paid for permanet open access (see, e.g., OUP's terms). In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread periodically in which I invite authors ...

2025年1月30日 · The monster child's first day with political power. Of all the stupid and venal things he did--declaring a fake "national emergency" at the Southern border, withdrawing from the Paris Climate accords, withdrawing from the World Health Organization--the most ominous was pardoning all those convicted for participation in the...

Reader Scott Newstok called my attention to this very interesting LRB review essay of John Guillory's latest attempt to look at the history and organization of literary studies as a field. A brief excerpt: For Guillory, the pivotal development in the whole story was the arrival of ‘criticism’ as the dominant approach in the 1920s and 1930s, whether in the form of I.A. Richards’s ...

The "undecided" or "waivering" voters have no idea what's going on and do not understand cause and effect. Consider this from the latest NYT polls showing an essential tie in the key Northern battleground states:. The polling results fit a recurring theme with voters in battleground states: Many tend to believe that Mr. Trump’s time in office helped people like them, and they worry that Ms ...

A soon-to-be PhD student writes: I am an incoming philosophy PhD student at a university in a major U.S. city. While I have been fortunate enough to receive funding and a stipend for the duration of my program, I find myself increasingly worried about getting by with rising inflation and costs of living — especially considering that the stipend is the same for all five years.

2022年5月2日 · A robust defense from his wife; this bit was striking:. As was widely reported, Princeton’s department last year voted to eliminate its language requirement for undergraduates.Now it has eliminated its most legendary language instructor. The great irony is that the elimination of the language requirement was, in part, to encourage students to take ancient languages other than Latin and Greek ...

2024年9月5日 · A new paper, slated for an issue of Midwest Studies in Philosophy on the topic of "Genealogy," edited by Yuval Avnur; the abstract:. Some philosophers associated with the post-Kantian Continental traditions in philosophy (for example, Marx and Nietzsche) think that the etiology of a belief can impugn the epistemic status of that belief, leading us, correctly, to be “suspicious” of it; let ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM SEPTEMBER 21--UPDATED. Professor Mills, a leading figure in political philosophy and philosophy of race, was, since 2016, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, before that having spent more than a quarter-century in the Chicago area, first at the University of Illinois at Chicago and then Northwestern University.