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Jan 10, 2010 · MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 7--UPDATED. I was sorry to learn that Professor Wolff died last night. He was, of course, well-known to readers of this blog for his many trenchant insights into contemporary events, to which I often linked, as well as his fascinating autobiography, to which we linked often a decade ago. Professor Wolff began his career as a Kant scholar, but became best-known as a ...
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In Memoriam: Robert Paul Wolff (1933-2025) MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 7--UPDATED I was sorry to learn that Professor Wolff died last night. He was, of course, well-known to readers of this blog for his many trenchant insights into contemporary events, to which I …
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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 ...
2024 in review, 4th quarter: October, November, December
6 hours ago · MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 27 October Einstein vs. Bergson on the nature of time Department of Education's OCR creates massive exception for faculty's contractual right to academic freedom Do your undergraduates have trouble reading whole books? (with extensive, and...
2024 in review, 1st quarter: January, February, March
3 days ago · MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 23, FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE MISSED IT DURING THE HOLIDAY BREAK January The financial future of UK universities (outside Oxbridge) Two PhDs in philosophy, but in different areas? Data on undergraduate philosophy majors in...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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May 2, 2022 · 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 ...