Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

Great moments in obscure rock 'n' roll: Jericho Jones, "Freedom," 1971

We haven't featured this Israeli rock band in several years, which also performed at times under the name "The Churchills" and sometimes just "Jericho."   This is another number from their 1971 album memorably titled Junkies Monkeys & Donkeys:

Please feel free to add links to any favorite numbers by Jericho Jones/Churchills/Jericho.

Summer quasi-hiatus is ending, more regular blogging resumes next week

Thanks, as always, for reading.

Some other lateral moves with tenure reflected in the updated PGR lists from the other day

I don't have additional information about these, except that they will all take effect by 2025 I take it (the benchmark for the upcoming PGR surveys):

Michelle Kosch (19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy) from Cornell University to New York University.

Matthew Soteriou (philosophy of mind) from King's College, London to the University of Pittsburgh.

"Marx" will be published on September 5

MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 14

UPDATE:  The book is out in the U.S.; I received my copies today, and I know a professor at Northwestern who also got his copy.  Thanks again to all those wh pre-ordered, I hope you will have your book in hand very soon.

=====August 14 post follows======

But I'm told it may ship even sooner, so order now.  Two of the referees for Routledge kindly identified themselves and agreed to blurb the book.  Allen Buchanan (emeritus Duke; Laureate Professor, U Arizona), author of Marx and Justice:  The Radical Critique of Liberalism (1982), said:

"A tour de force. Not only the best available introduction to Marx’s thought and to post-Marx Marxist theories, but also of interest to specialists. The organization is excellent, and the writing is always clear and jargon-free. It covers all the main topics that a book on Marx should address. It is remarkably fair and balanced, sympathetic to Marx’s ideas, but also appropriately critical of them." 

David Leopold (Oxford), author of The Young Karl Marx (2007), said:

"A philosophical introduction to Marx which manages to be genuinely accessible without avoiding controversy or consigning its subject to history. Edwards and Leiter bring Marx into a productive conversation with current work in the social sciences in order to develop and defend distinctive accounts of his views on history, ideology, and capitalism. A very welcome addition to the literature." 

I want to share a further set of comments from another referee report (whose author we do not know), not only because it is laudatory, but because it gives a really good sense of the book:

Fraser to MIT

Rachel Fraser (epistemology, philosophy of language, social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, aesthetics), who had been Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University, and was slated to take up a post at the now defunct Diaonia Institute at the Australian Catholic University, has accepted a tenured appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she will start in Spring 2025. 

Owens from KCL to Oxford

David Owens (moral and political philosophy, epistemology), Professor of Philosophy at King's College, London has been elected to the White's Chair in Moral Philosophy (now officially the Sekyra and White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy) at Oxford University.  Jeff McMahan held the Chair from 2014 until his mandatory retirement.

Two hires with tenure for UNC-Chapel Hill: Keiser from Leeds, Marechal from UCSD (start date corrected)

Jessica Keiser (philosophy of language, social & political philosophy), Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, and Patricia Marechal (ancient philosophy), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, have both accepted appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy (with tenure) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, effective July 2025.

(Thanks to Alex Worsnip for the information.)

Reality is paradoxical

An interview with Graham Priest.

Closures of private nonprofit colleges in the U.S. have increased dramatically in recent years

A chart at the Wall Street Journal shows that in 2010, 13 colleges closed in the U.S.; by 2015, that nuber jumped to 30, and by 2018, it jumped to 68.  Every year since, the number of closures has been in the 50s or 60s, with 14 already in 2024.  The article notes:

The pace of closures is expected to continue as federal Covid-19 funding dries up and applications drop due to a reduced birthrate, according to analysts and educators. The rise in prices is also one reason many young Americans are re-evaluating the overall value of a four-year degree.

Most at risk of closing are rural liberal arts schools with fewer than 1,000 students. Students are often drawn to their niche programs, tiny class sizes and defined sense of community.

This is not a trend that is going to hit the selective liberal arts colleges (the kinds of schools in the US News "national liberal arts colleges' rankings), but it is going to hit a lot of regional colleges in the years ahead.

More tenured faculty get the axe in Wisconsin, thanks to the awful former Governor Scott Walker

This time it's faculty at two branch campuses of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee:

The board overseeing Wisconsin public universities voted to lay off 32 tenured University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors, marking the first large-scale application of a Republican policy put in place nearly a decade ago.

UW-Milwaukee closed its Washington County campus at the end of the 2023-24 school year, and its Waukesha campus will shutter after the spring 2025 semester. Faculty at the two campuses worked in an academic unit called the College of General Studies. The UW Board of Regents on Thursday eliminated the college, and with it, the professors' jobs.

"It's always the people who make the least who get cut first, right?" asked Tait Szabo, an associate professor of philosophy for the branch campuses, at a rally held before the vote. He said he had given 17 years to the UW System and ended his academic career earning about $56,000. Milwaukee isn't brimming with other philosophy faculty jobs for him to apply for, but his family has established roots in the area, leaving Szabo in limbo.

"That's just my story," he said. "Now multiply it by about 30, plus all the staff ... already laid off"....

2024 Lakatos Award in philosophy of science goes to Barcelona's Carl Hoefer

Announcement here.

Let me add a word about the announcement of awards and prizes.  There are a lot of them now in philosophy (which is great for those recognized), but it is not my policy or practice to announce all of them.  I do try to take note of those that seem particularly important and well-established:  the Lakatos Award is a case in point, since it has a distinguished track record.  I don't have, off the top of my head, a full list of such awards/prizes, but they include, e.g., NEH Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowships, some article and book prizes (e.g., Journal of the History of Philosophy), and major academic honor society memberships.  Please feel free to send me prize/award announcements, even if you're unsure whether it's the kind the blog usually covers.  Thank you.

Great moments in obscure rock 'n' roll: Flower Travellin Band, "How Many More Times," late 1960s

ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 29, 2019--COMMENTS NOW OPEN

They don't get much more obscure than this Japanese pscyhedelic/progressive/hard rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s, that enjoyed no commercial success even in Japan, but has long had a small cult following.   They began by doing covers of various British blues rock numbers, of which this is one--a rather distinctive version of the song Led Zeppelin ripped off from Howlin' Wolf and Albert King and made famous:

If anyone knows the precise year of this recording, please post in the comments, along with links to any other "Flower Travellin Band" favorites!

In Memoriam: George M. Wilson (1942-2024)

Professor Wilson, who was emeritus at the University of Southern California (and taught for many years before that at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Davis), was well-known for work in philosophy of action, philosophy of language, and philosophy of film.  Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Wilson or for those who wish to comment on the significance of his work.  Please feel free to post links to obituaries and memorial notices as well.

(Thanks to his brother, the philosopher Mark Wilson, for the information.)

In Memoriam: Robert Stern (1962-2024)

Professor Stern, well-known for his work on Kant and Hegel, died yesterday of the terminal illness he discussed in this interview we noted last fall.  Professor Stern spent his academic career at the University of Sheffield.   Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Stern or for those who wish to comment on the significance of his work.  Please feel free to post links to obituaries or memorial notices as well.

(Thanks to Matt Kramer for the pointer.)  

In Memoriam: Alvin I. Goldman (1938-2024)

MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 9--UPDATED

For a long time the most important and influential epistemologist in the Anglophone world, Professor Goldman was emeritus at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, but during his long career also taught at the Universities of Arizona, Illinois/Chicago, and Michigan/Ann Arbor.  He died on August 4.  He also made important contributions to the philosophy of mind and action.  Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Goldman, or for those who wish to comment on the significance of his work.

UPDATE:  The Rutgers memorial notice.

The risk of accidental nuclear war, redux

This makes for chilling reading.   Did you know that the U.S. could not retaliate against a nuclear strike from North Korea without sending its land-based missiles over Russian territory, and Russia's missile detection technology is inferior to ours, so they are less reliable at tracking the course of a nuclear missile, and thus more likely to think they are being attacked.  Some President better get a handle on this situation, and Congress really needs to reign in control of use of nuclear weapons, before every other issue is moot.  And the situation will get worse as the technology "improves," and nuclear warheads are attached to hypersonic missiles, so that instead of six minutes to figure out what is happening, leaders will have 2 minutes or less.  This does not end well.

UPDATE:  Philosopher David Wallace writes:

[W]hile I thought there was a lot of interesting content in Jacobsen’s book, and while it’s right to remind people that the stresses on the President could lead to catastrophe, I found the way her scenario played out to be really implausible. The reason for launch-on-warning is that the Russians might launch an attack large enough to destroy the US’s land-based missiles before they’re fired, so you need to fire them immediately. (FWIW I think that argument ceased to be plausible once we developed accurate submarine-launched missiles, and getting rid of launch-on-warning would be a very good idea.) But there is zero possibility that NK could destroy US missile siloes like that, since its arsenal isn’t nearly large enough (and in Jacobsen’s scenario it’s obvious they’re not trying to). I don’t see why the US wouldn’t respond to a small-scale NK attack by prioritizing getting the president out of DC and then considering a response at relative leisure (including taking the time to talk to the Russians and Chinese).  (Disclaimer: I don’t have genuine professional expertise in this, though I’ve had a lay interest for many years.)

Philosopher's Annual, ten top papers from 2023

Philosopher Patrick Grim shared this year's selections announcement:

The Philosopher’s Annual volume 43

from the literature of 2023

Mark Alznauer, “Untrue Concepts in Hegel’s Logic,” from the Journal of the History of Philosophy

Bradford Cokelet, “Competitive Virtue Ethics and Narrow Morality,” from Philosophical Studies

Kevin Dorst, “Rational Polarization,” from the Philosophical Review

Melissa Fusco, “Absolution of a Causal Decision Theorist,” from Noûs

Tyler Knowlton, Paul Pietroski, Alexander Williams, Justin Haberda, and Jeffrey Lidz, “Psycholinguistic Evidence for Restricted Quantification,” from Natural Language Semantics

Berislav Marušić and Stephen J. White, “Disagreement and Alienation,” from Philosophical Perspectives

Joshua Mendelsohn, “Aristotle’s Argument for the Necessity of What We Understand,” from Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Jacob M. Nebel, “Ethics without Numbers,” from Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

Jeffrey Sanford Russell, “On Two Arguments for Fanaticism,” from Noûs

Vida Yao, “Eros and Anxiety,” from Synthese

"Methods of Philosophy"

Ten lectures (in China) by Timothy Williamson.

Trump can still win this election (lawfully)

Those who are big consumers of "election news" and "polls"--which probably includes many readers of this blog--probably have the sense that Harris is going to win this election.   God knows (if S/He existed, that is) I hope the monster child is defeated, and Harris/Walz prevail.   But the reality is that this is very, very far from a sure thing.  The NYT "poll tracker," whose averages are weighted towards polls with more reliable track records, shows Harris leading Trump by just two points nationally, and shows her leading by similarly small margins, or just tied, in all the key battleground states.  2020 polls badly underestimated Trump's support, despite having been burned in 2016 for the same problem.  Are they now accurate?  I have no confidence they are, especially if the underlying problem (as many suspect) is that more Trump voters don't respond to polls.  In 2020, the gold standard NYT/Siena poll had Biden up by 14 points nationally right before the election; Biden's actual margin of victory was 4.5%.  All the good TikTok vibes for Harris are nice and happy, but they don't mean much, since TikTok is not, shall we say, representative of the population at large.  I'd be a lot more comfortable if Harris's margin were more like 5-6%, rather than 2%.   The fact that it is still close is, by itself, appalling, but telling about the pathological condition of the United States.

Philosophy podcasts

Courtesy of Jason Chen, a full list here, and new ones each week here.

U.S. law faculties ranked by scholarly impact

Readers thinking about law school might want to look at the latest study from Professor Greg Sisk & colleagues at St. Thomas (Minnesota).  This is a better metric of actual law faculty quality than the infamous U.S. News rankings, which incorporate a lot of noise.

Jeff McMahan talks about "The Ethics of Killing"...

...at The Dissenter.

Resources in philosophy of work and labor and related areas?

A young philosopher, teaching at a rural two-year college campus, writes:

I have taught retired police officers, future truck drivers, berry farmers, Wal-Mart employees — largely working-class folk. (They were, on the whole, wonderful students. It was a pleasure to be their teacher.) Perhaps unsurprisingly, discussion often turned to issues in, or about, the workplace. I was, and I remain, woefully unfamiliar with this area of philosophy. 

I am hoping you and your readers might have some suggestions for resources in: the philosophy of work and labor, the philosophy of bureaucracy, alienation, the philosophy of the corporation and its nature, Taylorism, Fordism, etc.

I am familiar with Marx's early political writings, especially his anthropology and its role in his arguments about alienation, and with Elizabeth Anderson's book, Private Government. I am mostly looking for resources I could use for teaching, such as readers, collections of essays, or stray essays. But suggestions for my own edification would be welcome, too.

Comments are open for reader suggestions.

Great moments in obscure rock 'n' roll: Redwing, "The Underground Railway," 1971

Reader Dave Wasser tipped me off to this California-based band active in the late 1960s and into the 1970s, that had something of a local following, but never made it nationally.  (They aren't even on Spotify!)  The style is sort of rockabilly, but also calls to mind The Byrds, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and others of the era.  This is the lead number of their debut album:

More information about Redwing or recommendations of other songs welcome.

In Memoriam: John Woods (1937-2024)

Professor Woods, who died on August 15, was an expert in logic (esp. informal logic) and metaphysics, taught philosophy and also held administrative posts at many universities in Canada, including the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria (where he was Head of Department), the University of Calgary (where he was Dean of Humanities), and the University of Lethbridge (where he was President).  After his retirement, he taught philosophy regularly at the University of British Columbia.   Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Woods, or for those who wish to comment on the significance of his work.

 (Thanks to Mohan Matthen and Dom Lopes for the information).

Thank you

I appreciate the generous response to the post the other day about the Marx book.  Yesterday, the book was in the top 15,000 on Amazon, and briefly in the top five "philosophy" books (which is dominated by classic works by Plato, Aristotle etc.). Thanks to those who bought a copy and to all those who shared the post on Twitter.

I hope readers will write with their reactions.  Many books in the Routledge Philosophers series are already in second editions, so reader feedback will be helpful if and when we get to the point of updating the volume.  (For those curious, I explained how we ended up writing the volume here.)

Viktor DeSantis appointed a Republican crony, former Sen. Ben Sasse, to run the University of Florida...

...and he enriched his own cronies with state money.  Good job by the student journalists at UF!

The election will be decided by people who haven't a clue...

...who don't understand cause and effect, and don't understand the candidates or their policies--like the people regularly interviewed by the NYT in their "American in Focus" series (read a few of those, and weep).  Recall the revealing anecdote from longtime reader S. Wallerstein:

Shopping in an open air market, Mr. Wallerstein was chatting with a Chilean woman about the U.S. election: he expressed his preference for Biden, she expressed that she liked Trump. As the conversation went on, she also revealed that her truly favorite American political figure was Michelle Obama. As Mr. Wallerstein observed: "I realized that for her and for many others, Trump, Biden and Michelle Obama do not represent political positions on the left and right spectrum, but are simply celebrities who appear on TV: some appeal to her and some don't for completely non-political reasons."

Achen & Bartels provide the evidence for the anecdote.  It's all pretty horrifying, of course, but that's the reality:  our fate will be decided by some of the most uninformed and witless people in the electorate.

Talking about Nietzsche (and ethics and other topics) at "Philosophy Now"...

...with a very thoughtful Canadian high school student, Angela Tan.

"Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs"

UPDATED BELOW, COMMENTS NOW OPEN

The former editor of Philosophy & Public Affairs (which imploded in May) shared the following announcement:

On behalf of the former Editors of Philosophy and Public Affairs, I am pleased to announce the name of our newly founded journal, Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs, slated to launch for submissions in September 2024.

I am also excited to announce that I will serve as Free & Equal’s Editor-in-Chief. I look forward with enthusiasm to working once again with my distinguished Co-Editors, and to leading our diamond open-access journal. Hence the masthead of Free & Equal (listed below) is exactly same as the old masthead for Philosophy and Public Affairs prior to our resignation. Please note that no one on this masthead has any further involvement with Philosophy and Public Affairs, which is now entirely run by Wiley. 

The name Free & Equal symbolizes our new journal’s aspiration to be free and equally accessible to all.  Our ongoing mission remains the same: to publish work of the highest caliber that provides philosophical reflections on issues of public concern. I encourage everyone in the philosophy, law, and political theory communities to send us your best work, which we look forward to receiving.

Anna Stilz

Kernan Robson Professor of Political Science

University of California, Berkeley

Free & Equal Editorial Board (below the fold)

The 376 most cited philosophers in the Stanford Encyclopedia that were born since 1900

Courtesy of Professor Schwitzgebel.  The list says a lot about Anglophone philosophy (and SEP), perhaps a bit less about philosophy. 

(Yours truly is tied at #377 according to the Schwitzgebel method.  So close to greatness, but, alas, no cigar.   No cigar, either, for Alexander Nehamas, Jonathan Lear, John Gardner, Leslie Green, Seana Shiffrin, Imra Lakatos, Gilles Deleuze, Robert Pippin, Frederick Neuhouser, and Mark Wilson, among other surprising absences.)   

ADDENDUM:  A reader sends this Google N-Gram (based on searching all books in google) for the period 2000-2020, using philosophers from the top, middle, and bottom of the SEP list, plus some of the "no cigar" folks.  Of course, this would not distinguish between authored and edited works, and it would also pick up "impact" outside philosophy.

The specter of Garcetti is haunting the American academy

Even if Trump doesn't win in November, one can expect more and more red states to push the line that public university faculty speech is "government speech," and subject to government control--the latest being Indiana and Purdue Universities!  (See also.)

NBA star Jaylen Brown talks about Foucault (esp. Discipline & Punish)...

...and its relevance to his life as a professional athlete!

(Thanks to Cheyney Ryan for the pointer.)

More on JD Vance and his fascist friends

The quote at the start from Brodsky is very apt ("he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language'"), but this really is ghastly:

J.D. Vance has enthusiastically promoted a book that uses genocidal language to stoke hatred toward both liberals and progressives.

Unhumans, by right-wing conspiracy theorists Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec, offers a sinister thesis: Progressive-minded Americans are not humans. Instead, they are "communists." In turn, the authors define communists as bloodthirsty "unhumans" hellbent on the destruction of civilization.

Right-wingers, they write, must stop these unhumans with a policy of “exact reciprocity.” This means doing exactly to these so-called unhumans what the authors claim the unhumans are planning to do to them.

The 283-page screed reads like an effort to incite a civil war. It strains to create a sense of urgent terror in its readers. On nearly every page, it demonizes and dehumanizes “the left”– a vaguely defined group that apparently includes journalists (“the unhuman-occupied media”) and people who believe in things like diversity, equity, social justice and the rule of law. The definition is so broad that it seems most Democrats would qualify as unhumans....

A good "beginner's" introduction to the history of Europe in the long 19th-century (1789-1917 as it were)?

I'm looking for recommendations of introductions suitable for a good high school studnet, or a college freshman.  It's fine if the book also treats 20th-century European history beyond 1917.  (Just to be clear, Hobsbawm is not introductory enough for this purpose.)  Thanks for any advice you folks can share!

Walz as VP

Following up on this, as all readers will likely know, Harris has picked the Minnesota Governor as her VP candidate.  (VP Harris is a longtime reader of the blog, did you know?)   I was worried about choosing the Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro; he is certainly popular in Pennsylvania, but his selection would have thrust Israel/Gaza to centerstage given his outspokenness on this issue, and alienated some younger "progressive" voters.  I'm not sure America is ready for a Black/Asian woman as President, although I'm hopeful, but I would worry even more about asking "low information voters" to vote for a ticket that also includes a Jew.  (Judging from the vulgar Twitter abuse being directed at Harris, most of it is focused on her sex, not her race or ethnicity, which is telling about how deep-seated that pathological prejudice runs.)    As i said the other day, Walz is a good talker, and getting him maximum exposure should have a positive effect.  Positive enough to win in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania?  I'm far from confident, although I think given the geography, choosing Walz should be enough to tip Wisconsin solidly to the Democrats.

Sadly, the race is still very close, which itself is horrifying given the monster child and his not-so-crypto fascist running mate.  Although the Democrats now have a chance to prevail, it's very far from a sure thing at this stage.  To make matters worse, Netanyahu seems hell-bent on provoking a total war in the Middle East, no doubt on the (correct) supposition that another Trump Administration would give him an even freer hand.   As we also know from Achen & Bartels, events right before an election have a disproportionate impact, so if the current signs of a recession mature into a real economic downturn, that will be big trouble for the Democrats.

UPDATE:  I was pleased to see he has a strong pro-labor record as well.  This will hopefully help with the union vote in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which is important.

Lateral moves/retirements since the 2021 Philosophical Gourmet Report: 2024 edition

In addition to the separate posts announcing (generally tenured) faculty moves, I will keep a running list of all lateral moves (and retirements and deaths) not reflected in the faculty lists for the last PGR (some moves that took place after the last PGR were reflected in the faculty list, because the editors knew of them).  I will start a new list for each academic year, so that the list does not get unwieldy.  (The 2022 list is here, with a couple of late additions in bold, and the 2023 list is here.)  Unless otherwise noted, the appointment (or retirement) takes effect in 2024.  I will move this to the front periodically, putting recent additions in bold.  Untenured lateral moves will be noted as such, otherwise the move is with tenure.  A lateral move is one from one tenure-stream position to another either into or out of a program offering the PhD or terminal MA.  In addition I will list retirements and also deaths of non-emeritus faculty.  Please e-mail me with additions or corrections.

*Luvell Anderson (philosophy of language, philosophy of race, aesthetics) from Syracuse University to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

*Cinzia Arruza (ancient philosophy, feminist philosophy) from The New School to Boston University.

*Sam Baron (metaphysics, philosophy of science) from the Australian Catholic University to the University of Melbourne. 

*Amy Berg (ethics, political philosophy) from Oberlin College to Rice University (untenured lateral).

*Anastasia Berg (ethics, Kant) from Hebrew University, Jerusalem to the University of California, Irvine (untenured lateral).

*Sara Bernstein (metaphysics) from the University of Notre Dame to the University of California, Santa Cruz (effective fall 2025).

*Kyle Blumberg (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind) from the Australian Catholic University to the University of Melbourne.

*Gwen Bradford (ethics) from Rice University to the University of Toronto.

*Ray (R.A.) Briggs (epistemology, metaphysics, decision theory, logic) from Stanford University to the University of Chicago.

*Cameron Buckner (philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and AI) from the University of Houston to the University of Florida, Gainesville.

*Daniel Brudney (political philosophy, Marx) at the University of Chicago is entering on a phased retirement, and will be half-time through 2029.

*Jeff Carroll (political philosophy) from Bowling Green State University (Philosophy) to West Virginia University (Business School) (untenured lateral).

*Sam Carter (philosophy of language, epistemology, logic) from Dianoia Institute of Philosophy/Australian Catholic University to University College London.

*Monima Chadha (Indian philosophy) from Monash University to Oxford University.

*David Charles (ancient philosophy) is retiring from Yale University at the end of June 2024.

*Lu Chen (philosophy of mathematics & physics, metaphysics, philosophical logic) from Koç University (Turkey) to the University of Southern California (effective January 2024) (untenured lateral).

*Maudemarie Clark (Nietzsche) will retire from the University of California, Riverside at the end of June 2024.

*Timothy Clarke (ancient philosophy) from the University of California, Berkeley to Yale University.

*Dale Dorsey (ethics, political philosophy) from the University of Kansas to Oxford University (effective fall 2025).

*Edward Elliott (philosophy of mind, decision theory) from the University of Leeds to the University of Notre Dame.

*Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (political philosophy, contemporary European philosophy) from Syracuse University to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (joint with Political Science).

*Jonathan Fine (ancient philosophy) from the University of Hawaii, Manoa to Georgetown University (untenured lateral).

*Samuel Fletcher (philosophy of science, philosophy of physics) from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul to Oxford University.

*Peter Fritz (logic, philosophy of logic, metaphysics) from the Diaonia Institute of Philosophy/Australian Catholic University to University College London.

*J. Dmitri Gallow (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, rational choice theory) from the Dianoia Institute/Australian Catholic University to the University of Southern California.

*Georgi Gardiner (epistemology, meta-philosophy, social philosophy) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to Tulane University.

*Berys Gaut (aesthetics, ethics) will retire from the University of St Andrews in August 2024.

*Warren Goldfarb (logic, history of analytic philosophy, Wittgenstein) will retire from Harvard University at the end of calendar year 2024.

*Simon Goldstein (philosophy of language, epistemology, AI safety) from the Dianoia Institute/Australican Catholic University to the University of Hong Kong (effective January 2024).

*Robert Gooding-Williams (social-political philosophy, philosophy of race, 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy) from Columbia University to Yale University.

*Jeremy Goodman (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic) from the University of Southern California to Johns Hopkins University (effective January 2024).

*E.J. Green (philosophy of mind & cognitive science) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Johns Hopkins University (effective January 2024).

*Andrew Huddleston (19th & 20th-century Continental philosophy [esp. Nietzsche], aesthetics, ethics) from the University of Warwick to the University of Notre Dame (effective July 2025).

*Jessica Isserow (metaethics, ethics, moral psychology) from the University of Leeds to the University of Notre Dame.

*Elizabeth Jackson (epistemology, philosophy of religion) from Toronto Metropolitan University to St. Louis University.

*Simon Kirchin (ethics, metaethics) from the University of Kent to the University of Leeds (effective January 2024).

*Alexander Kocurek (philosophical logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology) from Cornell University to the University of California, San Diego (untenured lateral).

*Brian Kogelmann (political philosophy) from West Virginia University (Business School) to Purdue University (Philosophy & Political Science).

What is it like to be a philosopher? Russ Shafer-Landau edition

Here.  This part of the interview made me laugh out loud:

Job market horror stories?

No horror stories, unless you count being yelled at for the stupidity of my ideas by one interviewer, having another fall into my lap, asleep, and having yet another progressively incline in his chair until he, too, fell asleep—and in his case, he was the only interviewer in the room. So no, definitely no horror stories.

The blog started 21 years ago today

What I wrote on the 10th anniversary is perhaps worth reading.  In the first ten years, the blog averaged 2.3 million unique visits per year; the blog still averages 3 million unique visits per year, notwithstanding the summer hiatuses of recent years.  Thanks, as always, for reading.

ADDENDUM:  A follower on Twitter posted the following:  "i started reading in maybe 2008 as an undergrad at a small commuter school with 1-2 phil faculty. the blog and PGR is how i learned about the professional aspects of philosophy, where to apply for phd etc. - i think it may have been how i found out PhDs were funded and i could go."  

A "philosophical eulogy" for Daniel Dennett...

...by David Chalmers: