Dr. Dale E. Miller
@drdaleemiller.bsky.social
I'm a philosopher who works mostly on J. S. Mill and on topics that Mill wrote on, e.g., individual freedom, democracy, and utilitarian ethics. My views are not necessarily those of my employer.
www.drdaleemiller.net
Political science
41%
Environmental science
13%
Some element of comparison is inevitable. The point of an accommodation is that students with disabilities get more time than students w/o. If students w/o routinely get "extra" time, students with either get even more or there is no accommodation. And the real losers are the honest students w/o.
If students who don't need accommodations get them, doesn't that harm the students who do need them? Many tests are graded on curves, implicitly or explicitly. If a student w/o a disability gets a higher grade because they had more time, grade of student w/ disability may be lowered.
I wonder to what extent these changes reflect changes in what gets called liberal, far left, etc., as opposed to changes in the respondents' politics. In a world where Republicans describe all Democrats as radical leftists, some Democrats may be internalizing that label.
Apparently he doesn't even have time to follow the news.
This could be read as implying that the Prize winners have inflated findings and/or blocked others' research. Maybe they have---I don't know---but maybe they also do the hard work, day in and day out, albeit sometimes with more resources than most.
Premature antifascism
A Modest Defense of Viewpoint Diversity
BY DALE E. MILLER In “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity,” Professor Lisa Siraganian throws down a gauntlet. After offering “seven theses against viewpoint diversity in any of its guises,” sh…
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I injected some Mill into their blog recently: academeblog.org/2025/09/26/a...
I thought kings there got their swords from watery tarts.
I agree that what matters most is that faculty are willing to present diverse viewpoints within their disciplines to students and take them seriously. If they do that, their own views matter less. There still might be some utility in having a bit more diversity in the views faculty actually hold.
A Modest Defense of Viewpoint Diversity
BY DALE E. MILLER In “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity,” Professor Lisa Siraganian throws down a gauntlet. After offering “seven theses against viewpoint diversity in any of its guises,” sh…
academeblog.org
Another guest blog post at Academe: academeblog.org/2025/09/26/a...
Thanks for posting.
You're doing it wrong.
Shat
I did hear that Conclave gets wild at the end.
It shouldn't be happening this way, but would accreditors requiring universities to promote intellectual diversity somehow be worse than their requiring them to promote identity diversity? And would it really involve greater reliance on "quotas"? (For the record, I say promote both.)
Trump gets a salary, right?
I guess they still need to clean the windshield.
They can spare them.
Ukraine shouldn't have been dressed that way.
What Does It Mean to Teach Divisive Concepts?
BY DALE E. MILLER Several states have taken or are considering measures to prohibit the teaching of “divisive concepts.” In my state, Virginia, new governor Glenn Younkin immediately issued Executi…
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In light of Friday's "Dear Colleagues" letter, here's something I wrote previously about teaching "divisive concepts." The distinction between two senses in which faculty might teach these concepts is obvious to instructors but is worth stating clearly. academeblog.org/2022/02/23/w...
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The return of the homunculus.
A better simile might have been "As sad as you are when a friend asks you to drive them to the airport."
You might be interested in today's Academe post. It's about the BOV at GMU. Likely you know it all already, though.
At a university, though, this is subject to the limitation that the views held by faculty are serious by the disciplinary standards. Since there seem to be no serious arguments for doubting the existence of climate change, viewpoint diversity isn't a reason for science departments to hire deniers.
Here's are two arguments from Mill that suggests that it is: 1) There's value for students in hearing different political perspectives defended by people who hold those perspectives. 2) There's value for scholars in having people around who disagree with them and will challenge their assumptions.
I should learn to hash mark.