2014 in review (September): more Salaita, the "cosmopolitan ideal," the "September Smear" campaign, Scotland

I continued coverage of the Salaita travesty at Illinois, including here and here; this piece about ignorance of philosophy and the cosmopolitan ideal provoked a lot of discussion (falling into by now predictable patterns); with less than a week to go before the start of the PGR surveys, the smear campaign launched on September 23 with Sally Haslanger and longtime PGR hater David Velleman posting, without context and without warning, private e-mails sent many months earlier to Carrie Jenkins and Noelle McAfee, stripped of all context in order to maximize the damage.  This was followed on September 24 by the boycott statement on behalf of Jenkins (but not McAfee!), signed by Haslanger and other friends/colleagues of Jenkins.  Meanwhile, and far more importantly, philosophers advised Scotland what to do, successfully apparently!