I am happy to (re)announce that David Henderson has accepted the Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professorship of Philosophy and the Moral Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He takes up the second half the chair. The first half is occupied by my new boss David Sobel.(Leiter’s announcement)
…is now under way. The first week has just begun, and just like last year it is very exciting.
Richard posted about his future research interests a few months ago. His post got me thinking about what my main future research interests are. I will follow him by adding the disclaimers that this list is not exhaustive, that I am sure new projects will strike my fancy in the future, and that I am [...]
Over at the papers page of this site I have posted a new paper and two updates on older papers. The new paper is “The Respect Model of Freedom of Expression”. I wrote about the issues discussed in this paper here and here. The updated papers are “Changing Places: The Personal Reason Requirement and Patient [...]
I have been buried in work lately. Plus, the grad admissions craziness has begun. Luckily, I am one for one. I found out a week ago that I was accepted by UNL. Although UNL is definitely my safety-safety school, it is nice to know that the many fine philosophers there thought highly of my application. [...]
As many others have pointed out (e.g., here and here), photographer Steven Pyke has posted the original 25 photos from his book Philosophers, as well as 25 new photos. I really love the photos, but I think that I love some of the captions more. Some of these are the best instances of philosophers [...]
I am sad to report that my former professor G.W. Fitch has died. I took metaphysics from him two years ago and introduction to symbolic logic the semester after that. His metaphysics class was one of the best I have ever taken. It provided my with my initial inspiration to become a philosopher. For that, [...]
I have been having a fruitful email conversation with Mark Budolfson about the crux of arguments found in, e.g., my paper “Common Sense, Reliability, and Luminosity in Willamson’s Anti-Luminosity Argument” (Tom Blackson also has a paper on this, so does Stew Cohen and Mark). It basically boils down to this: there seems to be a [...]
