Subscribe to this blog in Radio:
Didn't find what you were looking for?
E-mail this blog's author, Bruce Umbaugh:  |
|
 |
Monday, March 29, 2004 |
R.I.P., Joel Feinberg. Brian Leiter says:
I have just received the following e-mail sent by Professor Chris Maloney, Head of Department at the University of Arizona:
"I regret to inform you that Regents Professor of Philosophy and Law (Emeritus) Joel Feinberg died today, March 29, in Tucson following a long illness.
"Professor Feinberg retired from the University of Arizona Philosophy Department in 1994 after 17 years on the faculty. Prior to his appointment at Arizona, Professor Feinberg taught at Brown University, Princeton University, UCLA and Rockefeller University. He held the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. [Leiter addendum: he wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of Ralph Barton Perry under the supervision of Charles Stevenson!]
"Professor Feinberg was internationally distinguished for his research in moral, social and legal philosophy. His major four volume work, The Moral Limits of Criminal Law, was published between 1984 and 1988. Professor Feinberg held many major fellowships during his career and lectured by invitation at universities around the world. He was an esteemed and highly successful teacher, and many of his students are now prominent scholars and professors at universities across the country.
Professor Feinberg is survived by his wife, Betty, daughter, Melissa, and son, Ben. The family is planning a memorial to be held later this week on a date to be determined."
Jules Coleman (Yale), one of Professor Feinberg's many students, is preparing a longer memorial notice, which I'll link to when it is available.
Permit me a personal note, on the sad occasion of the passing of this splendid philosopher and human being. I first met Joel in 1994, shortly after he had taken emeritus status at Arizona, when the Department was looking for a law-and-philosophy scholar. I spent a good deal of time with Joel during my various visits to Tucson during the time I was being recruited, and he and his wife were extremely kind and hospitable. Joel's generous enthusiasm for me and confidence in my work were, to put it mildly, extraordinarily meaningful to someone just finishing up his first year of university teaching. One of my great regrets about not taking the Arizona job is not having had the opportunity to spend more time with Joel Feinberg. He is, on anyone's accounting, one of the handful of major figures in legal philosophy of recent decades; and, indeed, much as Hart defined the central questions and issues for analytic jurisprudence over the past forty years, so Feinberg set much of the important agenda in normative jurisprudence. That, on top of his major philosophical contributions, he was also a caring mentor of dozens of graduate students and young philosophers means that he will long be remembered with both intellectual admiration and genuine affection and gratitude. [The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates]
8:57:43 PM 
|
|
Cheney - 'Sisters' Gets Outed
In 1981, long before her husband was elected vice president,
Lynne Cheney
wrote "Sisters," a steamy bodice-ripper set in the 19th-century American West,
featuring vivid tales of whorehouses, attempted rapes, a suspicious murder and
several lesbian love affairs, of which Cheney writes approvingly. The
paperback, published in Canada, has been out of print for nearly two decades.
But on April 6 the book is scheduled to be released for the first time in
the United States. Many of the novel's most lurid details have already been
unearthed on the Internet and by gay-rights activists, who believe Cheney's
treatment of lesbian relationships in the book is at odds with the Bush
administration's stance against gay marriage. (Cheney's been silent about gay
marriage, although her daughter Mary is openly gay.) For example, in the book
a woman says of her female lover: How well her words describe our love
-- or
the way it would be if we could remove all impediments, leave this place and
join together. Then our union would be complete. Our lives would flow
together, twin streams merging into a single river.
A Cheney spokesperson says the reissue came as a surprise to the Second
Lady.
4:25:04 PM
|
|
How E-Voting Threatens Democracy. Nobody wants another Florida election debacle. Electronic voting is supposed to be the answer, but a growing body of evidence suggests the technology, at least in its current form, cannot be trusted. A Wired News special report by Kim Zetter. [Wired News]
7:04:54 AM
|
|
|
