Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
"News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture ... and a bit of poetry."
Author: One of the authors is Brian Leiter, a law professor at the University of Chicago; another is Bill Edmundson of Georgia State University College of Law. Leiter also posts at Brian Leiter's Law School Reports.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Legal Theory • Georgia State University • University of Chicago • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
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Why it is not fruitful to discuss Nietzsche interpretation with postmodernists
Here and also here. (Thanks to Ryan Lake for the pointer.)
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Do the "Folk" Really Believe in Objective Standards of Moral Right and Wrong...
...or are they cultural relativists?
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Real Moral Education
Here. (Thanks to Adrian Bardon for the pointer.)
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Kierkegaard in the NY Times
Here.
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The Neoliberal Paradigm in Higher Education...
...has been preparing the demise of "public" research universities for 25 years now. Those that become de facto privates like Michigan will survive as major research universities, and those that don't will see their former…
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In Memoriam: Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
The NY Times obituary is here. Although his most influential work was in anthropology, it raised interesting philosophical issues and, of course, played a major role in the development of structuralism in French philosophy in…
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Are You the Chair of a Search Committee? Check Your Junk E-Mail Folder!
Sergio Tennenbaum (Toronto) writes with a useful reminder: Some departments seem to be sending job candidates' letters of recommendation by email to the head of the search committee. I don't know if these are supposed…
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Simon Blackburn on the "Impact" of Philosophy
Very funny.
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Interested in Legal Philosophy: Just a PhD in Philosophy, or a JD as Well?
A student writes with a variation on a question I have gotten from others over the years: I'm coming to the end of my undergraduate career and am, naturally, thinking about my next destination. Being…
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How Judith Butler Writes Her Books and Articles
The secret revealed at last!