A Tiger Never Changes its Spots

“Brian”:http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/02/philosophy_howl.html already covered this, but it’s so funny it’s worth covering twice. From yesterday’s “NY Times”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/weekinreview/27atlas.html?

bq. [Harvard] can tenure Harvey Mansfield, the professor of government famous for his politically incorrect pronouncements, and Hilary Putnam, the philosophy professor who was handing out Progressive Labor pamphlets 35 years ago and seems not to have changed his mind on any issue since.

I always thought that a Putnam was a unit of time, measuring how long it took the good professor to change his views, but the “Lexicon”:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/lexicon/#P reveals my memory was playing tricks on me.

Thanks to Dmitri Tymoczko for the pointer.