Oh my: Twenty years ago, I paid a visit to Prof. Michael Broyde in his Emory University Law School office, to ask him to help me understand the Jewish legal doctrine of lashon hara–telling bad things about someone. I was interested in the relationship between...
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I have one sort of not awful thing to say about Brian Leiter: he's got what his favorite poet would call cojones. Let's review here, for those of you who.
I wanted to say a couple things about Paul's recent string of posts in order to emphasize why what's happening here is, in fact, important. First of all, I was.
Updated below This is a cautionary tale about, among other things, what happens when highly privileged people who should know better don't have the courage to stand up to an out of control internet bully and cyber stalker. Here's the series of events: (more…)
You probably thought this was about some other sexist academic, but it's actually about Vincent Hendricks, a philosopher who posted this on his website. Unlike that other sexist academic, Hendricks.
This is a story about one way in which a code of silence is enforced in legal academia. That code is unwritten, informal, and unacknowledged -- and all the more.
Although Brian Leiter beat me to it, this David Bernstein post is such a remarkable piece of work that I can't resist piling on. Angry about the possibility that someone might be criticized (with, properly in my view, no other consequences as far as...
In this week's installment, she contributes to the Ridiculous Martyrdom of Larry Summers by backing up nonsense spoken by Christina Hoff Sommers :How will we ever be able to talk.
Shortly after Christmas Brian Leiter linked to this Corey Robin essay on Arendt on totalitarianism, and posed a general question about the political relevance of Hannah Arendt's work. So far,.
The other day, Brian Leiter linked to this review (PDF) of David Buller's new book for MIT Press, Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature.This looks very promising for a number of reasons. First, like Paul Campos in the Obesity Myth...
Missed this on Friday. From the Globe and Mail, via Brian Leiter and Matt Yglesias: The formal announcement Thursday that Canada will refuse any further participation in the controversial U.S. missile-defence shield was.
Everyone's linking to this new blog started by Velleman, whose work I don't personally know, but who I know is a big name in philosophy. But the rest of the roster.