tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763377479629539589.post8212398223217315698..comments2023-10-11T09:41:19.089+02:00Comments on Philosophical Comment: Some Further Developments on Brian Leiter and the PGR, following the September Statement and the Advisory Board Letter that Urges his ResignationChristian Munthehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03373442927438898939noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763377479629539589.post-63444966017082721382014-10-07T23:07:20.854+02:002014-10-07T23:07:20.854+02:00He is incapable of it. He is honestly blind to wh...He is incapable of it. He is honestly blind to what is happening; he thinks he bears no responsibility, that this is all unfair persecution, that his actions are, as they have always been, perfectly fair and rational and logical. People like him frequently end up destroying their reputations like he has because they have no self-awareness, no ability to step back and evaluate their own behavior. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763377479629539589.post-295238406596083952014-10-05T21:06:41.339+02:002014-10-05T21:06:41.339+02:00For everyone's sake, BL, you should just stop....For everyone's sake, BL, you should just stop. Be quiet. Take some time to calm down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763377479629539589.post-69977673867275978572014-10-05T20:29:58.995+02:002014-10-05T20:29:58.995+02:00Leiter is has refused to resign the PGR
http://lei...Leiter is has refused to resign the PGR<br />http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2014/10/pgr-update-2-1.html<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763377479629539589.post-73792676771507786632014-10-05T19:10:43.806+02:002014-10-05T19:10:43.806+02:00"July 1: I posted a sharp critique of some ut..."July 1: I posted a sharp critique of some utterly misleading rankings produced by Carolyn Jennings, a tenure-stream faculty member at UC Merced. She quickly started revising it after I called her out."<br /><br />I am not sure why Brian still finds it necessary to portray me in a negative light, against the actual facts.<br /><br />Here are the actual facts: I posted a comparison of placement ranking with PGR ranking that Brian found misleading (but most others did not, due to the clarity of language, etc.). Brian posted criticisms of those rankings, along with a bunch of other stuff. I immediately responded to each of his criticisms at the post, making no substantial changes to the post, since I did not find those criticisms to have merit. It was only in discussion with others the next day (July 2nd) that I decided to replace the placement ranking with placement "brackets," as I note at the post itself. That was the only major change that I made to the post and it was in no way based on any of Brian's criticisms. It is a false characterization to say that "She quickly started revising it after I called her out." In fact, Brian's way of characterizing my response at the time was "Prof. Jennings digs in her heels."<br /><br />The only change that I did make, as a result of Brian's criticisms, was to look at the NYU placement page to discover whether my method had failed to capture all of NYU's tenure-track placements. It had. So long as the method did not particularly disadvantage NYU, this shouldn't have been a problem, as I explain in my response to criticisms. Nonetheless, I added in those two placements. As I suspected, as other departments sent in their own missed placements, NYU dropped back down to a similar position in the ranking (it was initially #24, and now it is at #20--although, again, this is in no way supposed to be authoritative, as I have stressed from the very first version of this post). And I still haven't checked all of the placement pages--I only departed from the method for NYU (and, later, 5 other departments in a completeness test) because it seemed to me that Brian really cared about NYU.<br /><br />That this is still going on--that Brian is still taking cheap shots at my reputation--is ridiculous.Carolyn Dicey Jenningsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763377479629539589.post-56487358869489290502014-10-04T22:37:39.818+02:002014-10-04T22:37:39.818+02:00Here are the facts, from my blog post above (the b...Here are the facts, from my blog post above (the blog post has the links):<br /><br />July 1: I posted a sharp critique of some utterly misleading rankings produced by Carolyn Jennings, a tenure-stream faculty member at UC Merced. She quickly started revising it after I called her out.<br /><br />July 2: other blogs began attacking me for criticizing Jennings.<br /><br />Later on July 2, Catarina Novaes also joined the criticism, pointing me to the response by Carrie Jenkins, which she characterized, obviously correctly, as “reacting to what many perceived as Brian Leiter’s excessively personalized attack of Carolyn Dicey Jennings’s analysis.”<br /><br />One of Jenkins's own friends has now admitted to me what was obvious to everyone at the time, namely, that the Jenkins' post had me as one of its targets, and that, therefore, it was correct to interpret her as threatening not to treat me as a "normal" member of the profession, whatever that would mean.<br /><br />BLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763377479629539589.post-83410041071924164192014-10-04T17:56:08.133+02:002014-10-04T17:56:08.133+02:00Preamble: Brian Leiter sent me this as an email, a...Preamble: Brian Leiter sent me this as an email, and I urged him to post it as a comment here. <br /><br />I read that post you referred to and was not convinced in the least. I read Carrie Jenkins thoughtful and neutral blog post, and then read your email to hear in response to that, I cannot find anything in the first that would according to any normal standard of communication or decency motivate the latter. What you write about the various controversies surrounding PGR in the "smear" post doesn't change this judgement of mine one bit. Both of these (Jenkins post and your email) are in my first post on this matter, for anyone who want to judge for themselves ( http://philosophicalcomment.blogspot.se/2014/09/an-increasingly-remarkable-series-of.html ). <br /><br />Now, I do suppose that perhaps you FELT provoked (or something in that territory), but that does not imply the presence of any actual provocation. I can fins no one in Jenkins post - not least, since it not about you in any way, not addressed to you, and not mentioning you or any definite description that may be taken to refer to you specifically, however you twist the semantics.<br /><br />But, once again, I leave it to readers to make their own judgement, using the links provided in this and my earlier posts, as well as the one you point to here.Christian Munthehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03373442927438898939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763377479629539589.post-72945912472289276462014-10-04T15:58:50.189+02:002014-10-04T15:58:50.189+02:00You have repeatedly state on this blog, falsely an...You have repeatedly state on this blog, falsely and contrary to fact, that the e-mails I sent were "unprovoked." I have detailed the facts at some length here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2014/09/cyber-smear.html<br /><br />You may criticize the e-mails without stating, falsely, that they were unprovoked.<br /><br />BLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com