Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

Blast from the past: "Religion is like a penis"

Back in 2014.

Blast from the past: the "slave revolt" in philosophy

Back in 2016, but it continues apace.

Blast from the past: the one thing Rorty got right!

Alas.

Blast from the past: "Contempt," Trump and "Midwestern...moral instincts"

In praise of diversity!

Blast from the past: the Analytic/Continental distinction

I discussed it with Nigel Warburton back in 2011.

Blast from the past: the Ludlow case and the Kipnis book

2 1/2 years ago, but worth remembering.

Blast from the past: Wise words from Evgeny Morozov

Back in 2015.  If only more would listen...

Blast from the past: Linda Alcoff and the "Climate for Women" fraud

Still amazing after all these years.

Blast from the past: Kathleen Stock called out Nathan Oseroff for his bad behavior one year ago

Time flies....

Blast from the past: a classic metablog moment

It seems so long ago now.

15 years ago today, on this blog...

...the smear campaign on John Kerry's war service.

Blast from the past: on defending the powerless and vulnerable, and giving them a voice

Back in 2018.

Blast from the past: when the Associate Editors of Hypatia defamed Rebecca Tuvel

Back in 2017. 

Blast from the past: speaker controversies at the Society for Christian Philosophers and the Society for Analytical Feminism

Both back in 2016.   Philosophy hasn't gotten much saner since!

Blast from the past: when the police arrested Henry Louis Gates, Jr....

...ten years ago.

Blast from the past: Reed on race as a "taxonomy of ascriptive difference"

I do wish people would read this and think about it before making claims about philosophy being a canon of "dead white men."  It isn't.

Blast from the past: the argument from vomit

I suspect many people are now having this reaction, although for different reasons than Searle did.

Blast from the past: "Me Studies" and philosophy's problems

Back in 2015, but still all-too-relevant.

Blast from the past: by what time on April 15 must students accept admissions offers?

We discussed it back in 2017.

Blast from the past: Schopenhauer on anonymity

Back in 2005.  Schopenhauer is obviously correct:  "For a man to wrap himself up and draw his hat over his face, and then fall upon people who are walking about without any disguise—this is not the part of a gentleman, it is the part of a scoundrel and a knave." 

Blast from the past: Most-cited Anglophone philosophy books published since WWII...

...back in 2017.

Blast from the past: On New York bluntness

Two years ago.

Blast from the past: APA adopts new policy on religious instiutions that discrimnate against gay men and women

Way back in 2009!

Blast from the past: Errol Morris on Kripke and Kuhn

Back in 2011 (follow the link to get to the original discussion thread).

Blast from the past: advice for prospective graduate students about visiting departments

Back in 2014, but still quite relevant of course.

Blast from the past: the humanities in an increasingly "commercialized" culture and university

Almost a decade ago, and still relevant needless to say.

Blast from the past: The inflation of bullying

As true today as then.

Blast from the past: Hume's personal ad

Back in 2003.

Blast from the past: Nietzsche's personal ad

Here.

Blast from the past: Kant's personal ad

Here.

Blast from the past: Indexicals, children, and Kant

Back in 2004.

Blast from the past: on criticizing students, why is academic law so different than academic philosophy?

Back in 2015.

Blast from the past: the defamation of Rebecca Tuvel

Less than two years ago.  A shameful but revealing moment about a segment of the profession, the same segment that is now on a crusade to shut down feminist philosophers, scholars and activists who raise questions about the gender self-ID law.

Blast from the past: Malcolm Gladwell exposed

Back in 2012.

Blast from the past: Olberding on Tuvel

Never forget.

Blast from the past: Biology textbooks under attack in Texas

Way back in August 2003.

Blast from the past: John Yoo and academic freedom

Back in 2009.

Poetry from the past: "Recidivism"

Back in 2011.  A reader kindly called this to my attention as a poem he particularly liked.  My father was 78 when he wrote that poem, and will turn 86 next week.

Blast from the past: what is philosophy, again (Peter Hacker's take, with discussion)

Back in 2013.  (Vide Ken Taylor's reaction.)

Blast from the past: recommenders should probably include explicit comparisons in their letters

Back in 2010.

Blast from the past: philosophers on their conception of "philosophy"

Back in 2010.

Blast from the past: Gutting on the "analytic" and "Continental"

Back in 2012.

Blast from the past: 2014, the year the philosophy profession went mad

Four years ago.   One salutary development in the interim--perhaps due to the public outrage in 2017 over the abuse of Rebecca Tuvel by the usual suspects--is increasingly visible and vocal resistance to the "bloodthirsty mob of wacko philosophy profs" by other members of the profession.

Blast from the past: "What is an 'area of competence'?"

Back in 2007.

Blast from the past: the REAL "pluralist" guide to PhD programs

Back in 2013.  We miss you Spiros!

Blast from the past: these philosophers didn't take the "kindness" pledge

Back in 2014.

Blast from the past: Robert Paul Wolff on Harvard Philosophy in the 1950s

Back in 2010.

Blast from the past: More Nonsense Rankings

Back in 2014, but, remarkably, some people continue to produce similarly misleading "information."  Why are some people so indifferent to the well-being of undergraduate students?  (And see this and this.)

Blast from the past: Thomas Nagel jumps the shark

Way back in 2009.

Blast from the past: George W. Bush's second inaugural address

Back in 2005.  Seems almost sane now!  How much further can American sink?