Month: June 2024

Professional Philosophy Triage

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Leiter, PGR, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

Justice tempered by Mercy Because I’m maintaining an Archive of (what I’ve called) The Meltdown here on this blog, I think I’ve read most, if not all, of what professional philosophers have said publicly in the last several days’ scrum regarding  Brian Leiter’s objectionable behaviors (or “civility” more generally) as well as the merits and demerits…

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A Note on “The Archive”

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Leiter, PGR, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

This is just to let readers know that I continue to update the Archive of The Meltdown daily.  I’m trying to catch everything substantive that shows up in re the recent events surrounding Leiter, the PGR and the September Statement– and I’m aiming to avoid redundancy as much as possible– but there has been a…

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What You Can Do To Support PIKSI (which you *should* support) OTHER THAN Donating Your Money (which, if you are able, you *should* also do)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Philosophy, Politics, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

It’s been a busy (in fact, record-breakingly busy) month here on RMWMTMBM, so I wanted to take a momentary break from the Leiter/PGR/SeptemberStatement brouhaha–about which this blog has more or less unfortunately become something akin to professional Philosophy’s version of TMZ— and instead remark upon an initiative as important to our discipline as, and not wholly…

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Interactive Timeline of the Leiter/PGR Controversy

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Leiter, PGR, Philosophy, Politics, Rankings, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

As readers know, I have maintained an Archive on this blog with links to most (if not all) of the public essays, statements and posts regarding the recent controversy surrounding Brian Leiter and the Philosophical Gourmet Report.  A lot as been said over the last few weeks and, if you’re interested, you can trudge through…

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CFT (Call For Tweeters) #SPEP14

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, SPEP 0 Comments

Last year’s meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) was the first such conference, as far as I’m aware, that was live-tweeted by a significant-enough number of participants to be noteworthy.  I was one of the SPEP Twitterati last year in Eugene, and I wrote a post about that experience after I…

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The Leiter/PGR Archive Is Now Closed (and, A Note from Your Archivist)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Leiter, PGR, Philosophy, Politics, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, SPEP, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

This has been a strange month for academic Philosophy, for professional philosophers and, as a more or less direct consequence, for this blog.  A little less than four weeks ago, on September 24, I began collecting various posts, essays and articles related to what I then anticipated was going to be, at the very least,…

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The Ferguson Lesson: Another Way To “Take Up Arms”

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Democracy, Ferguson, Philosophy, Politics, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, Weak Humanism 0 Comments

As someone who has spent the better part of her career researching, analyzing and teaching not only about the structure and nature of oppressive power regimes, but also better and worse ways to resist or transform such regimes, I’ve nevertheless been unable to settle in my own mind, to my own satisfaction, my position with…

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Trolleys, Fat Men and Drones

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

Just a random”Philosophy pedagogy” insight today: I’m teaching three sections of a course entitled “Contemporary Moral Problems” at Christian Brothers University this term, which is more or less CBU’s version of  “Intro to Ethics.”  As I’ve done in all of my past Ethics courses, I spend the second day of class leading students through a…

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Missing: An Image of “The Worker” Today

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 99%, Marx, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

This semester I have the very good fortune of teaching a graduate course in the History of Theory and Criticism at Memphis College of Art. (Check out my syllabus here and the class blog here.) For their final projects, my students are required to employ one of the theories we studied during the semester to present a…

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#SPEP14 Tweeter/Absentee “Buddy System”

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Digital Humanities, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, SPEP 0 Comments

Daniel Brunson (@danieljbrunson) asked me if I could figure out a way to connect (1) people who won’t be attending #SPEP14 but who are interested in hearing specific panels and (2) Tweeters who will be live-tweeting those same panels. I think something like a digital-philosophical “buddy system” is a great idea, especially for those unfortunate…

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