Leiter Reports 2008-07-24
A Proposal about Single-Submissions and Timeliness of Refereeing of Articles
A young philosopher writes: Currently, young faculty and grad students can find it to be very difficult to get published in top journals since so many of these journals can take so long (one journal took 18 months to get...
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- Friday Poem: "In Time of War, 1942"
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- Friday Poem: "Used Book Sale"
- Kelsen's Relative Neglect in Anglophone Jurisprudence
- Light Posting the Next Few Days...
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- Friday Poem: "Julian Sorel"
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- Summary of Major Faculty Moves and Tenure-Track Hires for 2006-2007, Penultimate Draft
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- Friday Poem: "Poems-I"
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- Friday Poem: "The End of Mythology"
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- Friday Poem: "No Hope"
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- More Thoughts on the Churchill Case
- Friday Poem: "UT Library"
- New URL for my Legal Philosophy Blog--Plus a New Paper on "Explaining Theoretical Disagreement"
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- Summary of Major Faculty Moves and Tenure-Track Hires for 2006-2007, 3rd Draft
- Nietzsche Blog
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- Friday Poem: "Comforted Not Free (Valery)"
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- Summary of Major Faculty Moves and Tenure-Track Hires for 2006-2007, 1st Draft
- James Rachels (1941-2003) Website
- Friday Poem: 'Very Well, I Will Be Forgotten"
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- Friday Poem: "This Special Time"
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