Brian Leiter, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, wrote a response to my response to Green’s idiotic post on conservatives in academia. Some of the points he makes echoes what other people have said on Daily Nous, where…
Category: Academia
Leslie Green, professor of philosophy at Oxford, recently published a post on his blog called “Why it is hard to be a campus conservative”. I said elsewhere that I have rarely come across anything that was both condescending and stupid to…
Just so you know, I have been able to get the data from the CIRP Freshman Survey, which means that I didn’t have to rely on what the Higher Education Research Institute publishes anymore. It’s a good thing because, in…
In my last post, I offered a brief commentary on a recent paper about the representation of women in philosophy journals, but I now want to discuss a bit more thoroughly the underlying issue of the underrepresentation of women in…
A paper with a lot of interesting data about the representation of women in philosophy journals has just been published in Philosophical Studies. The authors used data from 25 top philosophy journals and found that, compared to their share of professional…
A few days ago, Rod Dreher wrote a piece in The American Conservative about a 4 year old interview of Tommy Curry, a professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. (I would like to add that, although I’m going to criticize…
The editorial board of Hypatia, a journal specializing on feminist philosophy, recently apologized for the decision to publish a paper by Rebecca Tuvel, professor of philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis, even though it went through their regular peer-review process. Here is…
I have written about CGSU before, when I was fighting against unionization, but they are back in the news. A few graduate students have recently published a column against Prof. David Collum in the Cornell Daily Sun, whom they accused…
Laura Kipnis, whose ordeal I mentioned recently, just published another piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. She explains what she saw during the process that led to Peter Ludlow’s resignation from his job at Northwestern University and it’s pretty damning…
Brian Leiter talks about Laura Kipnis’s forthcoming book about her experience at Northwestern in 2015, when a frivolous Title IX complaint was filed against her after she wrote a piece about the sexual paranoia that, according to her, prevails in academia. (She wrote another essay…