Legal Commentary

God, Philosophy, Universities
I am reading Alasdair MacIntyre's new book, "God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition." Check it out. It's conversational and accessible, but also provocative and profound.

Can Plato pay the bills
According to an article earlier this week in NYT, philosophy has become a hot major on college campuses: Once scoffed at as a luxury major, philosophy is being embraced at Rutgers and other universities by a new generation of college...

Video Introduction to Experimental Philosophy
Comedian Eugene Mirman explaining a famous study from the new ‘experimental philosophy’ movement. * * * For more on experimental philosophy, see “Quick Introduction to Experimental (Situationist?) Philosophy” and visit the blogs, Experimental Philosophy and The Garden of Forking Paths...

The Woods from Stanford to Indiana
Allen Wood (Kant, 19th-century German philosophy), Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and Rega Wood (medieval philosophy), Research Professor of Philosophy at Stanford, have accepted senior, tenured offers from the Department of Philosophy at...

Where China's Universities Rank
US News & World Report just came out with its rankings of the best universities in the World (h/t to Above the Law, which had my firm being acquired by Baker & McKenzie?) US News' rankings of US colleges and universities are hugely influential in terms of where people apply to college...

Bix on Analytical Legal Philosophy
Brian Bix (University of Minnesota Law School) has posted On Philosophy in American Law: Analytical Legal Philosophy (ON PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN LAW, Francis J. Mootz, III, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2009) on SSRN...