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American Philosophy: October 2006
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Philosophy in the American Context. Tuesday, October 31, 2006. Code, Weinberg, Nichols, and Stich. A quick story to relate, then out of town for a few days. Several weeks ago we read Lorraine Code's "Taking Subjectivity Into Account" in my epistemology class. The reception, to put it nicely, was frosty. Many students took exception to her claim that mainstream epistemology represents the biases of wealthy white males (which is pretty much the wording she uses). Then a couple of weeks ago we read this.
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American Philosophy: January 2007
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Philosophy in the American Context. Wednesday, January 17, 2007. What Makes a "Good" Philosophy Department? The New York Times had an article. About the Philosophical Gourmet Report. It focuses primarily on Rutgers' high ranking which, I suppose, might surprise some people who are more familiar thinking of Rutgers as New Jersey's state university. (People at my high school in New Jersey would always say, condescendingly, about Rutgers "Oh, that's a good. To this as follows:. I'm not quite sure what Stuhr...
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American Philosophy: February 2007
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Philosophy in the American Context. Sunday, February 18, 2007. I've been thinking more about rankings after reading some comments on Berit Brogaard's blog. One question is whether there's an alternative to the Leiter Report. Now, some people do love the Leiter Report, but others find it hopelessly biased. Here's some food for thought. I hadn't heard of this Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. So what are the highest ranking philosophy departments? 6 UC San Diego. 9 SUNY Stony Brook. This is a new gener...
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American Philosophy: September 2006
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Philosophy in the American Context. Monday, September 25, 2006. Lorraine Code: Taking Subjectivity Into Account. Two thoughts occurred to me after today’s discussion of Code’s article Taking Subjectivity Into Account. The first is that her point can be boiled down to a very plausible set of claims, something like the following: It’s a mistake to define objectivity in terms of value neutrality. Why? It’s to listen to people who don’t think like us: that’s an effective way of weeding out persistent bias.
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American Philosophy: August 2006
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Philosophy in the American Context. Monday, August 28, 2006. Soames on Analytic Philosophy in America. Scott Soames has posted a piece on the history of analytic philosophy in the U.S. ( here. There's been some discussion of it on the Leiter blog, as well. At first I was going to write a critical post, but then I read some of the comments on the Leiter blog and decided not to play that. So here's one thing I like a lot about Soames' piece, and a couple of points where he gets things wrong. 3) Soames also...
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American Philosophy: June 2006
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Philosophy in the American Context. Friday, June 30, 2006. Horwich on Wittgenstein's Meta-philosophy. Here's an interesting quote from Horwich's "Wittgenstein's Meta-Philosophical Development". That's a really nice way of expressing the difference between solving a problem and dis. Posted by John Capps at 2:13 PM. Thursday, June 29, 2006. The incident is another in a list of curious episodes regarding Harris. More recently she has endured an exodus of staff members and has been linked to a defense contra...
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American Philosophy: November 2006
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Philosophy in the American Context. Friday, November 24, 2006. Over at Knowledge and Experience. There's a post about fetal monitoring, which happens all the time, even though its value hasn't ever been demonstrated. This is in the news since The New England Journal of Medicine. Just published a study showing that fetal oxygen. But as the post points out, fetal heart. The post links to an editorial. The editorial gives a few reasons. One is that physicians simply aren't trained to use stethoscopes to...
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American Philosophy: December 2006
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Philosophy in the American Context. Sunday, December 17, 2006. The current issue of The Atlantic. Has a list of the 100 most influential Americans of all-time. The top three are Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson. Here's where some American philosophers (other than Jefferson) stack up:. 30 Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 33 Ralph Waldo Emerson. 43 WEB. DuBois. 53 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 65 Henry David Thoreau. Who's missing from this list? I didn't see Robert Ingersoll. And I'm probably missing some others.
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American Philosophy: July 2006
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Philosophy in the American Context. Wednesday, July 26, 2006. Philosophers and Fellowships III. Oh, dear. More from the Leiter Report. That philosophers aren't getting the fellowships they deserve:. OK, I've already commented on this topic here. 1) "If it turns out that there is an area bias at work here too." Too? That's highly debatable. In fact, most of those who commented on earlier postings at the Leiter Report thought that the philosophical profession was at least. First, it depends on rejected app...
