I dunno, I just dunno. There's just something odd ... ironic, perhaps ... about
Merton College having to clarify the meaning of "disjunction" in
differentiation from "conjuction" in application to this particular case of a
job posting. And for Oxford to have to stoop to such a menial task as
differentiating between "all" and "some", like c'mon.
What indeed are the credentials of applicants applying for these positions?
Would they include successful completion of an intro logic course?
Ever think that standards at W. universities are rapidly declining? Affirmative
action / restorative justice? Post-Colonialist ideology? Unbridled
democratization of the university? No clear distinction btw. a university and a
social work agency? Postmodernism run amuck?
Walter O
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:11:06 +0100
From: Ralph Wedgwood <ralph.wedgwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Ralph Wedgwood <ralph.wedgwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: JOB: Merton College, Oxford
To: PHILOS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Merton College, Oxford, will be appointing a temporary college lecturer
in philosophy, for one year starting on 1 October 2010. (This is to
replace Dr Maria Lasonen-Aarnio, who is leaving her Fitzjames Fellowship
at Merton College to take up a position as an Assistant Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Michigan.)
The job advertisement can be found here:
<http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/stipendiary_lecturership_in_philosophy>
(The advertisement will also soon appear on <http://jobs.ac.uk/>, on
Merton College's website, and in the /Oxford University Gazette/.)
To clarify: when the advertisement says that "The successful candidate
... will be able to teach a number of the following subjects", the list
of subjects that follows is effectively a DISJUNCTION. It is /not/
required that the successful candidate will be able to teach all or most
of these subjects -- it is only required that they should be able to
teach "a number" -- i.e. /some/ -- of these subjects.
Please bring this advertisement to the attention of anyone who might be
interested!
--
Ralph Wedgwood
Professor of Philosophy
Merton College
Oxford OX1 4JD
UK
+44 1865 286501
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert1230/
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Merton College, Oxford, will be appointing a temporary college lecturer
in philosophy, for one year starting on 1 October 2010. (This is to
replace Dr Maria Lasonen-Aarnio, who is leaving her Fitzjames
Fellowship at Merton College to take up a position as an Assistant
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan.) The job advertisement can be found here: <http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/stipendiary_lecturership_in_philosophy> (The advertisement will also soon appear on <http://jobs.ac.uk/>, on Merton College's website, and in the Oxford University Gazette.) To clarify: when the advertisement says that "The successful candidate ... will be able to teach a number of the following subjects", the list of subjects that follows is effectively a DISJUNCTION. It is not required that the successful candidate will be able to teach all or most of these subjects -- it is only required that they should be able to teach "a number" -- i.e. some -- of these subjects. Please bring this advertisement to the attention of anyone who might be interested! -- Ralph Wedgwood Professor of Philosophy Merton College Oxford OX1 4JD UK +44 1865 286501 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert1230/Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Prolonged discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.
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