Philosophical Gourmet Report

Sick Of This Sh*t: On Professional Philosophy’s Boiling Frogs

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

There’s an old anecdote about boiling frogs that is often employed by philosophers to explain the sorites paradox. If you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, the story goes, it will immediately sense the heat and the danger, jump out of the pot, and be spared its life.  But if you put…

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Archive of The Meltdown [Now Closed]

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

If the current results of Brian Leiter’s poll (which asks whether or not he should continue producing the Philosophical Gourmet Report) are any indication– it’s 1709 to 1118 in favor of “No” votes as I write this– and if Leiter intends to take those poll results as some sort of mandate, then Philosophy may very well…

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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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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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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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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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