I suspect, is motivated mostly by the need to save money to fund tax cuts for Trump and other members of the plutocracy: The National Institutes of Health announced a new policy Friday to cap a ...

Dr. Roger Albin, a neurologist at the University of Michigan, writes: Thanks for posting on the NIH demarche on indirect cost rates. As commented in the NYT article, this would severely wound ...

Available for free download from OUP in advacne of its official publication in a month. (I think the link is now fixed.) MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY--UPDATED Story here. (A "go fund me" campaign ...

The Holmesian "Bad Man" does not believe in legal (or constitutional) obligations: the only relevance of the law is that it affects the calculation of what is in his interest. If the probability of ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 23--MANY INFORMATIVE COMMENTS, MORE WELCOME, INCLUDING CORRECTIONS OR UPDATED STIPEND INFORMATION Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for ...

A friend who is reading my CUP Divine Hiddenness book manuscript suggested that readers today tend to skip right over introductions and to start reading in earnest with chapter one. He ...

MANY INFORMATIVE COMMENTS, MORE WELCOME, INCLUDING CORRECTIONS OR UPDATED STIPEND INFORMATION Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 7--UPDATED I was sorry to learn that Professor Wolff died last night. He was, of course, well-known to readers of this blog for his many trenchant insights into ...

Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in Canada. The situation in the U.S., where many (but certainly not all) of the top programs are ...

ANOTHER UPDATE Story here. (A "go fund me" campaign for his legal fees has been started here.) "Fuck Landry" and "fuck Trump" are admirable sentiments, but it's not clear they ...