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| 10 November 2006 |
The new PGR for 2006-08 is now on-line here: www.philosophicalgourmet.com |
| 18 August 2006 |
The final opportunity to update or correct the faculty lists for the fall 2006 PGR surveys is now at hand. The lists are available here: |
| 22 May 2006 |
The May 22 draft of the faculty lists for the fall 2006 PGR surveys is now available here: |
| 11 May 2006 |
Draft faculty lists for the fall 2006 PGR surveys are now available. You may view them here, |
| 13 March 2006 |
Sorry for the long period of silence since the last Update. There were technical problems, and, in the interim, I have taken to posting all udpates at my blog site. You can find all the updates here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/philosophy_updates/index.html |
| 03 September 2005 |
Regarding today's terrorist attacks in London: I am collecting information on the safety and welfare of philosophers in and around London here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/07/london_friends_.html |
| 06 June 2005 |
(1) The American Philosophical Society, the nation's oldest learned society, has elected new members. Philosophers elected are Stanley Cavell (emeritus, Harvard), Allan Gibbard (Michigan), and Richard Rorty (emeritus, Stanford). |
| 31 March 2005 |
With decision time on U.S. PhD programs at hand, there's lots of news involving Christoher Hill, Colin McGinn, Bob Batterman, and others. It's all collected here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/philosophy_updates/ |
| 08 March 2005 |
I have opened a thread on my blog site where information about new tenure-track hires in philosophy can be posted. The thread and posting guidelines are here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/tenuretrack_hir.html |
| 02 March 2005 |
Lots of news on philosophy offers made and accepted (Bob Hale, Delia Graff, Louise Antony, Joseph Levine, others); rather than repost it all here, you can find it all at my blog under the "Philosophy Updates" category here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/philosophy_updates/ |
| 06 January 2005 |
Happy New Year to all! |
| 22 November 2004 |
During the day on Monday, November 22, we will be adding a revised set of rankings to the "Overall Rankings" section of the Philosophical Gourmet Report, to address a statistical problem identified by a member of the Advisory Board (whose department, it should perhaps be added, was unaffected either way by this problem). |
| 19 November 2004 |
The Philosophical Gourmet Report for 2004-06 will be released on Friday, November 19, 2004, at about noon in Britain. The new Report will be available at the site of the 2002-04 Report: www.philosophicalgourmet.com |
| 19 November 2004 |
The new Philosophical Gourmet Report for 2004-06 is now on-line at www.philosophicalgourmet.com |
| 15 November 2004 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 11 November 2004 |
Apologies for the long delay since the last Update. I have tended to post items more regularly in the "Philosophy Updates" section of my blog, which is now here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/philosophy_updates/index.html and then aggregate those postings for purposes of the e-mail Update service. However, there isn't that much new since August 20; for additional details on some of these items, see the blog site. |
| 20 August 2004 |
PLEASE NOTE: There is a final opportunity to review the draft faculty lists for the upcoming reputational survey, that will begin by September 15. You can find the list here: |
| 10 July 2004 |
(1) Australian Federation Fellowships, Australia's most lucrative chairs, have been offered to David Chalmers at University of Arizona (to be based at the Australian National University); Paul Griffiths at the University of Pittsburgh (to be based at the University of Queensland--note that Griffiths had recently accepted an offer at Exeter in the UK); and Philip Pettit at Princeton University (to be based at the University of Sydney). |
| 15 June 2004 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 15 June 2004 |
Here is the correct link for the Hampshire obituary (suitably condensed): http://tinyurl.com/3hxrc |
| 07 June 2004 |
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The draft list of faculties for the 2004-06 PGR has been updated here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/001343.html . Please pay particular attention to the lists of "affiliated faculty." Faculty eligible for addition to these lists must be (1) full or part-time at the same university; (2) not retired/emeritus or adjunct; and (3) faculty who work with PhD students in philosophy and who are eligible to sit on dissertation committees for philosophy PhD students. Send notice of additions and corrections to bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu |
| 26 May 2004 |
IMPORTANT NOTICE: In preparation for the 2004-06 PGR, and with the approval of the Advisory Board, we are making available a draft set of faculty lists for the programs to be evaluated. You can download it by going here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/001343.html Please notify bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu of additions or corrections. Many thanks for your assistance. |
| 18 May 2004 |
As a subscriber to the Update Service, you will have just received an Update originally sent on May 7. Due to problems with the service--now fixed, we believe--you may also not have received Updates from April 21 and 13. You can find those Updates in the archives here: http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/updates/archlist2.asp |
| 18 May 2004 |
(1) Charles Siewert (philosophy of mind) at the University of Miami has accepted a senior offer from the University of California at Riverside. |
| 07 May 2004 |
(1) Charles Siewert (philosophy of mind) at the University of Miami has accepted a senior offer from the University of California at Riverside. |
| 21 April 2004 |
(1) Brie Gertler (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has accepted an offer from the University of Virginia. |
| 13 April 2004 |
(1) Derek Parfit, one of the world's leading moral philosophers, has accepted a part-time appointment at Rutgers University at New Brunswick. Details of the appointment are here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/001039.html#001039. |
| 30 March 2004 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 30 March 2004 |
(1) Bill Brewer (philosophy of mind and action, metaphysics, epistemology) at Oxford University has accepted a professorial chair at the University of Warwick. |
| 30 March 2004 |
This is sufficiently notable (especially for students considering Columbia) that it warrants a second posting in the same day: Christopher Peacocke (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and mind) at New York University has accepted an offer uptown, from Columbia University. |
| 19 March 2004 |
(1) Jason Stanley (philosophy of language) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has accepted the offer from Rutgers University at New Brunswick. More details and editorial comments are here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000971.html |
| 18 March 2004 |
Correction: the right link for more details on some of these recent appointments is: |
| 18 March 2004 |
(1) Thomas Kelly (epistemology, ethics), currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, has accepted a tenure-track offer from Princeton University. |
| 10 March 2004 |
(1) Christopher Shields (ancient philosophy) at the University of Colorado at Boulder has accepted an offer from Oxford University. |
| 03 March 2004 |
(1) Ishitaque Haji (ethics, metaphysics, action theory) at the University of Minnesota, Morris has accepted a senior offer from the University of Calgary. Last year, Calgary also appointed Noa Latham (philosophy of mind, metaphysics), who had taught previously at Barnard College. (This latter appointment had been missed in previous updates; apologies.) |
| 26 February 2004 |
(1) Scott Soames (philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy) at Princeton University has accepted the senior offer from the University of Southern California. More on the significance of this move is here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000861.html |
| 18 February 2004 |
(1) Julia Annas (ancient, ethics) and David Owen (early modern), both at the University of Arizona, have declined the offers from the University of Notre Dame. |
| 13 February 2004 |
(1) Sylvia Berryman (ancient philosophy), currently on tenure-track at Ohio State University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of British Columbia, her undergraduate alma mater. |
| 06 February 2004 |
(1) Quassim Cassam (metaphysics, epistemology, Kant), currently at Oxford University, has accepted appointment as Professor of Philosophy at University College London, to begin January 1, 2005. More details here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000786.html |
| 29 January 2004 |
(1) John Hawthorne (philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, Leibniz) and Ted Sider (metaphysics, philosophy of language), both at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, and Jason Stanley (philosophy of language) at Michigan, have turned down the Yale offers. Bad break for Yale. Stanley still has an offer from Rutgers in hand. |
| 27 January 2004 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 24 January 2004 |
(1) Stewart Shapiro (philosophy of logic and math) at Ohio State University has turned down the senior offer from the University of Notre Dame. That's a big victory for OSU. |
| 22 January 2004 |
(1) The distinguished philosopher of science and biology Elliott Sober, who is currently Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University while on leave from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has decided to return full-time to the Wisconsin faculty, effective fall 2004. That's a significant development; do alert your students considering either Stanford or Wisconsin (especially those interested in philosophy of biology) to this development. |
| 16 January 2004 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 15 January 2004 |
(1) Ned Block (philosophy of mind) at New York University has turned down the offer from Harvard University. |
| 10 January 2004 |
(1) Adam Morton (epistemology, philosophy of mind), currently half-time at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, has accepted a Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta. |
| 19 December 2003 |
Because most applications for graduate programs are due in January, it seemed advisable to alert prospective students to some major offers that have at least been voted out of departments, and in some cases are "official" offers in the hands of recipients. Updates on these possible faculty moves will be posted in the future: |
| 16 December 2003 |
Luc Bovens (epistemology, decision theory, philospohy of science, ethics/political) at the University of Colorado at Boulder has accepted a senior post at the London School of Economics, where he is currently visiting. He does still have a counter-offer outstanding from Colorado until next fall, and so there is some prospect he might return to Boulder. |
| 08 December 2003 |
Michael Jubien (metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language) at the University of California at Davis has accepted a senior offer from the University of Florida at Gainesville, to start next fall. Last year, Florida made another significant senior appointment of David Copp (ethics, metaethics) from Bowling Green State University (Copp was, prior to that, a colleague of Jubien's at Davis). Adding these two distinguished senior philosophers to a large number of good, productive younger philosophers already at Florida (Murat Aydede, Kirk Ludwig, John Palmer, Greg Ray, among others) makes it rather likely, I think, that the Florida Ph.D. program will crack the top 50. |
| 01 December 2003 |
Dan Brock, one of the most talented philosophers working in medical ethics, will be leaving the National Institute of Health at the end of March 2004 to take up a new Chair at the Harvard Medical School, where he will direct the Division of Medical Ethics and participate in a new university-wide program in ethics and health. Other units at Harvard have in the last year or two added other first-rate philosophers working in and around medical ethics, including Norman Daniels, Frances Myrna Kamm, and Daniel Wikler. (Only Kamm, so far, has an official appointment in the Philosophy Department proper.) This latest addition certainly makes Harvard the place to be for medical ethics. |
| 18 November 2003 |
(1) A slightly belated notice (apologies): Michael Rosenthal (early modern, moral/political), previously at Grinnell College, has started as Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington at Seattle for 2003-04. |
| 05 November 2003 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 04 November 2003 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 23 October 2003 |
(1) Michael Dickson (philosophy of physics), currently in the HPS Program at Indiana University at Bloomington, has accepted a senior offer from the University of South Carolina, to start next fall. That's a big coup for South Carolina, where the faculty already includes another well-known philosopher of physics, R.I.G. Hughes. |
| 19 October 2003 |
I have made some corrections and additions to the Summary of Hiring for 2002-03 posted here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000234.html#000234. Among the affected departments, for which there is either additional or corrected information, are Harvard, Pittsburgh, NYU, and Columbia, among others. |
| 23 September 2003 |
(1) The Philosopher's Annual has announced its choices for the top ten articles in philosophy for 2002. Congratulations to those whose articles were selected: Nomy Arpaly (Brown), Ned Block (NYU), Michael Friedman (Stanford), Hans Halvorson (Princeton) and Rob Clifton (late of Pittsburgh), John Hawthorne (Rutgers), Richard Heck (Harvard), Karen Jones (Melbourne), Marc Lange (North Carolina), Derk Pereboom (Vermont), and Christopher Zurn (Kentucky). For more information, including the press release, visit http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000291.html. |
| 12 September 2003 |
Memorial notices for James Rachels |
| 09 September 2003 |
(1) Michael Smith (ethics, metaethics) at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University has accepted the offer from Princeton, to begin in fall 2004. |
| 09 September 2003 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 09 September 2003 |
The following summary of faculty moves and hirings at ranked PhD-granting programs that transpired since the last edition of the Report (from fall 2002) is intended to allow prospective students make effective use of the 2002-04 Report as they choose graduate programs this coming academic year. (The next comprehensive survey will be undertaken in summer 2004, for the 2004-06 edition of the Report.) Note that in some cases, senior hires were announced prior to the last PGR, even though the actual move did not occur till this year. Thus, where hires are already reflected in the fall 2002 PGR, they are not noted here. In addition, since faculty age is a factor evaluators are invited, but not required, to consider, faculty who are turning 70 soon are noted. Remember, however, that there is no mandatory retirement age, and while many faculty still retire before or around 70, many others continue teaching. Check with individual departments for more information. |
| 09 September 2003 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 03 September 2003 |
(1) Robert Stainton (philosophy of language and mind), who currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Carleton University, has accepted an offer from the University of Western Ontario, to begin July 1, 2004. This is the third appointment in these areas for Western Ontario in the last year or so (the other appointments were of tenure-track faculty, Chris Viger from McGill and Erin Eaker from UCLA). |
| 31 August 2003 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 08 August 2003 |
(1) The August 7 update about Dorothy Edgington's appointment as Waynflete Professor failed to note that the Waynflete Professor is at Oxford! That appointment, to repeat, is effective come October; Edgington is moving to Oxford from Birkbeck College, University of London. |
| 07 August 2003 |
(1) Dorothy Edgington (philosophical logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language), currently at Birkbeck College, University of London, has accepted appointment as Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics beginning this October. |
| 06 August 2003 |
(1) Harvard has extended a senior offer to Ned Block (philosophy of mind) at New York University. |
| 04 August 2003 |
Beatrice Longuenesse (Kant, Continental Philosophy), currently at Princeton, has accepted the senior offer from New York University. This concludes a quite remarkable year for NYU, in which the Department, already preeminent in many contemporary areas of philosophy, dramatically broadened and deepended its strength in the history of philosophy, with the appointments of Don Garrett (early modern philosophy) from North Carolina and now Longuenesse. Together with longtime NYU faculty member John Richardson (author of important books on Heidegger and Nietzsche), the addition of Longuenesse makes NYU a highly competitive choice for students interested in Continental philosophy as well. |
| 23 July 2003 |
(1) Alva Noe (philosophy of mind, cognitive science), currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has accepted the tenured offer from the University of California at Berkeley. |
| 16 July 2003 |
(1) Pennsylvania State University has hired two philosophers from the University of Colorado at Denver: Mitchell Aboulafia (Continental philosophy, American pragmatism) will be Professor and Head of Department at Penn State, while Catherine Kemp (18th century philosophy, philosophy of law) will be an Assistant Professor. |
| 13 July 2003 |
(1) Three more tenured appointments for the University of Toronto, which has once again had an active hiring season: Philip Kremer (logic) comes to Toronto from McMaster University; Michael Glanzberg (philosophical logic) comes to Toronto from a tenure-track position at MIT; and Brian Cantwell Smith (philosophy of mind, cognitive science) comes to Toronto from a chair at Duke University. Smith will also serve as Dean of the Faculty of Information Sciences, in addition to being a Professor of Philosophy. This is all in addition to the hiring of Kwong-Loi Shun (Chinese philosophy) from the University of California at Berkeley, an appointment announced earlier on the Update Sevice. |
| 24 June 2003 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 13 June 2003 |
(1) Kenneth Baynes (political philosophy, Critical Theory, German philosophy), currently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has accepted a senior offer from Syracuse University. This concludes a strong year of appointment in moral and political philosophy for Syracuse, which also added Edward McClennen from the London School of Economics and, at the junior level, the moral philosopher Benjmain Bradley. |
| 12 June 2003 |
(1) Paul Lodge (PhD, Rutgers), currently tenure-track at Tulane University, will be University Lecturer at Oxford University and Fellow of Mansfield College effective July 1. He will have responsibility for teaching early modern philosophy within the university. |
| 12 June 2003 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 02 June 2003 |
(1) Marilyn Adams (philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy), currently at Yale University, has accepted appointment as Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, to begin some time in 2004. Robert Adams (metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion, early modern philosophy) will retire from Yale at the end of the 2003-04 academic year. He is likely to do some teaching at Oxford as well. R. Adams was, of course, the Chair that rebuilt the Yale Department in to a top twenty department after it imploded in the early 1990s. |
| 02 June 2003 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 19 May 2003 |
(1) Saul Kripke (emeritus, Princeton) has accepted a full-time appointment as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center (he is currently quarter-time at CUNY). His seminal contributions to modern philosophy include the books Naming and Necessity (Harvard University Press, 1980) and Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (Harvard University Press, 1982). |
| 08 May 2003 |
Here is the final update on placement in to tenure-track jobs at PhD and terminal MA programs for the 2002-03 hiring season. Thanks to all those who supplied the information. |
| 08 May 2003 |
Although almost all the U.S. departments now post rather detailed information on job placement on their web pages, the same is not the case in the U.K., as a correspondent has recently pointed out. I quote, with permission, the letter here (though I have removed the names of particular departments). I hope it shall inspire UK departments to be more forthcoming. |
| 06 May 2003 |
(1) John Stuhr (American pragmatism, social philosphy), currently at Pennsylvania State University has accepted the W. Alton Jones Chair at Vanderbilt University, commencing this fall. |
| 05 May 2003 |
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced today that the following philosophers had been elected Fellows: Fred Dretske (emeritus, Stanford; part-time, Duke); Hartry Field (NYU); Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (North Carolina), Anthony Kenney (Oxford); Mary Mothersill (emerita, Barnard); Philip L. Quinn (Notre Dame). |
| 05 May 2003 |
(1) The moral philosopher John Deigh, editor of the journal Ethics and well-known for his seminal articles on issues in moral psychology and on Freud, has accepted a joint appointment in the Philosophy Department and Law School at the University of Texas at Austin. Deigh is the latest faculty member to abandon Northwestern University in recent years--others include Arthur Fine, who moved to the University of Washington at Seattle, Mathias Frisch, who moved to the University of Maryland at College Park, and Meredith and Michael Williams, who moved to Johns Hopkins University. Note, however, that Northwestern did add Thomas Ricketts (history of analytic philosophy) from the University of Pennsylvania this year, and has another senior offer outstanding and likely to be accepted. |
| 29 April 2003 |
(1) The eminent philosopher of science Adolf Grunbaum has resigned his appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, but |
| 24 April 2003 |
(1) A correction to the recent posting on job placement: Paul Livingston (PhD, UC Irvine) was hired by Villanova University, not Northern Illinois University. |
| 22 April 2003 |
(1) Don Garrett, one of the leading historians of early modern philosophy in the English-speaking world, has accepted the senior offer from New York University; he is currently at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. NYU, and Harvard, are also reported to be trying to recruit Beatrice Longuenesse (Kant, 19th-century German philosophy), currently at Princeton. |
| 15 April 2003 |
(1) With decision day at hand for prospective graduate students, some may want to be aware that NYU has now made a senior offer to the distinguished |
| 14 April 2003 |
(1) Jose Bermudez (philosophy of mind), currently at the University of Stirling, has accepted a senior appointment at Washington University, St. Louis, commencing this July. He will also serve as Director of the Program in Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology. In addition, Dennis Des Chene (early modern philosophy), currently at Emory University, has also accepted a tenured appointment at Washington University. |
| 09 April 2003 |
(1) James Lenman (ethics and metaethics), currently at the University of Glasgow, will join the faculty at the University of Sheffield in the fall. |
| 31 March 2003 |
Here is a first report on tenure-track hirings by PhD and terminal MA programs, based on information submitted over the last month. Those with additional information, please e-mail: bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu. |
| 27 March 2003 |
(1) Michael Bishop (philosophy of science, epistemology), currently the Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University, has |
| 25 March 2003 |
(1) Thomas Hofweber (philosophy of language, logic), currently on tenure-track at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has accepted a tenure-track |
| 24 March 2003 |
(1) Thomas Christiano (political philosophy) at the University of Arizona has declined the Chair at McGill University. |
| 19 March 2003 |
(1) Tamar Szabo Gendler (epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of psychology), currently at Syracuse University, |
| 11 March 2003 |
(1) Marc Lange (philosophy of science, philosophy of physics) at the University of Washington, Seattle has accepted a tenured offer from the University |
| 07 March 2003 |
(1) The distinguished philosopher of science and biology, Elliott Sober, has accepted the offer from Stanford University. He is currently visiting at Stanford, and |
| 12 February 2003 |
(1) Tamar Szabo Gendler (epistemology, philosophy of psychology, metaphysics) at Syracuse has a tenured offer from Cornell University, that would |
| 04 February 2003 |
(1) The distinguished scholar of Chinese philosophy, P.J. Ivanhoe, who resigned last summer from the University of Michigan, will serve as the Findlay |
| 25 January 2003 |
(1) The legal philosopher Andrei Marmor has accepted a half-time appointment in the law school at the University of Southern California (the rest |
| 21 January 2003 |
Frances Mryna Kamm (ethics), currently at NYU, has accepted an appointment in the Kennedy School of Government and Department of Philosophy |
| 13 January 2003 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 13 January 2003 |
Difficulties with the Update Service may mean that some of you have already received this Update from January 7th. If so, apologies for the repetition. |
| 07 January 2003 |
(1) A strong set of appointments for the University of Sheffield: three youngish philosophers, all working in and |
| 29 December 2002 |
Stephen R. Perry, the distinguished legal philosopher at the University of Pennsylvania, has accepted an offer from New York University School of Law, |
| 19 December 2002 |
(1) The Chronicle of Higher Education today reports that the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Research Fellowships to the following |
| 16 December 2002 |
(1) Marc Lange (philosophy of science) has declined the offer from the University of Texas at Austin, and will remain at the University of Washington |
| 04 December 2002 |
The following message is for students interested in Continental philosophy: |
| 26 November 2002 |
A number of memorial notices for John Rawls are now available. The Harvard Gazette notice is available at, |
| 25 November 2002 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 23 November 2002 |
(1) The Mellon Foundation has announced its second set of five Distinguished Achievement Awards in the Humanities. The only philosopher among |
| 19 November 2002 |
This is a message for prospective students, i.e., those applying to graduate school this year, though some of the content will obviously be of interest to others. |
| 18 November 2002 |
More on academic freedom at Stanford Law School--those uninterested, please delete this message, there's no philosophy news in this posting. (That's coming |
| 15 November 2002 |
A brief addendum about the prior message regarding academic freedom at Stanford Law School. The material I forwarded was sent to me by |
| 14 November 2002 |
The following is a political message, pertaining to another violation of academic freedom, and contributing to the climate of political repression in the |
| 13 November 2002 |
I regret that yesterday's memorial notice for Professor Jeffrey was lumped together with other news. It had been |
| 12 November 2002 |
(1) Correction to yesterday's announcement about Jeffrey Pelletier: he has not yet accepted the Chair at Simon Fraser, and the Chair offer must still |
| 11 November 2002 |
F. Jeffrey Pelletier, currently at the University of Alberta, will be taking up a Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University. Pelletier, who has |
| 29 October 2002 |
(1) The new Philosophical Gourmet Report for 2002-04 is now available (28 October 2002) on-line at the following addresses: |
| 10 October 2002 |
(1) David McNaughton (ethics) at Keele University |
| 01 October 2002 |
(1) The new Philosophical Gourmet Report for 2002-04 |
| 03 September 2002 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 23 August 2002 |
(1) Frederick Neuhouser (19th-century German |
| 07 August 2002 |
(1) Simon Blackburn (Cambridge) was elected a |
| 25 July 2002 |
(1) Alastair Norcross, currently Easterwood |
| 03 July 2002 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 03 July 2002 |
(1) The Centre for Philosophy of Social Sciences, |
| 19 June 2002 |
(1) Alex Miller (philosophy of language, metaethics), |
| 18 June 2002 |
(1) Hilary Kornblith, well-known for his work |
| 14 June 2002 |
A technical problem at Blackwell's site resulted |
| 14 June 2002 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 03 June 2002 |
Jim Pryor (epistemology, metaphysics), currently |
| 28 May 2002 |
(1) Bas van Fraassen (philosophy of science and |
| 23 May 2002 |
(1) Robin Jeshion (philosophy of language) at |
| 21 May 2002 |
(1) Rachel Barney (ancient philosophy), currently |
| 14 May 2002 |
(1) Daniel Garber (early modern philosophy, philosophy |
| 06 May 2002 |
(1) Alex Byrne (philosophy of mind, metaphysics) |
| 02 May 2002 |
(1) Duke has made a significant senior appointment: |
| 29 April 2002 |
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has |
| 23 April 2002 |
(1) The University of Illinois at Chicago has |
| 18 April 2002 |
(1) Stewart Shapiro has declined the offer from |
| 16 April 2002 |
(1) The University of Southern California has |
| 16 April 2002 |
(1) Harry Frankfurt is moving to emeritus status |
| 15 April 2002 |
Apologies for the multiple Updates today! |
| 15 April 2002 |
(1) Syracuse University has made a tenured offer |
| 15 April 2002 |
Junior Job Placement in Tenure-Track Jobs at |
| 12 April 2002 |
I wanted to share, especially with faculty readers |
| 11 April 2002 |
(1) Mark Colyvan (metaphysics, philosophy of |
| 09 April 2002 |
(1) Peter Godfrey-Smith (philosophy of biology, |
| 05 April 2002 |
(1) Peter Ludlow (philosophy of language and linguistics) |
| 02 April 2002 |
(1) The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. |
| 22 March 2002 |
The University of Rochester, in fact, has detailed |
| 21 March 2002 |
Problems with the Update Service appear to be |
| 21 March 2002 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 20 March 2002 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 18 March 2002 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 13 March 2002 |
Since the time of year is upon us when students |
| 12 March 2002 |
(1) Ralph Wedgwood (ethics, metaethics, epistemology), |
| 11 March 2002 |
(1) Jesse Prinz (philosophy of mind and cognitive |
| 28 February 2002 |
(1) Robert Stalnaker will not be moving to Princeton, |
| 27 February 2002 |
(1) James Griffin, the White's Professor of Moral |
| 18 February 2002 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 18 February 2002 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 11 February 2002 |
(1) Michael Tye, the distinguished philosopher |
| 06 February 2002 |
Peter King, the distinguished scholar of medieval |
| 31 January 2002 |
Anthony Appiah at Harvard University has accepted |
| 24 January 2002 |
IN MEMORIAM |
| 21 January 2002 |
(1) Prospective graduate students may want to |
| 17 January 2002 |
(1) The University of Texas at Austin has made |
| 09 January 2002 |
(1) An interesting analysis and discussion of |
| 02 January 2002 |
I am delighted to close the year by reporting |
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The new PGR for 2006-08 is now on-line here: www.philosophicalgourmet.com
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18 August 2006
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The final opportunity to update or correct the faculty lists for the fall 2006 PGR surveys is now at hand. The lists are available here:
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/draft_faculty_l.html
You may post corrections or additions at that site.
Thanks for your assistance.
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The May 22 draft of the faculty lists for the fall 2006 PGR surveys is now available here:
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2006/05/draft_faculty_l_1.html
Corrections and additions may be submitted there. Thanks to all who have already contributed to improving the accuracy of these lists.
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11 May 2006
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Draft faculty lists for the fall 2006 PGR surveys are now available. You may view them here,
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2006/05/draft_faculty_l_2.html
and also post corrections. Thanks for your help.
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13 March 2006
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Sorry for the long period of silence since the last Update. There were technical problems, and, in the interim, I have taken to posting all udpates at my blog site. You can find all the updates here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/philosophy_updates/index.html
I will occasionally use the Update service for particularly time-sensitive items, but from now on most updates will be posted only at the above link. Please note that there is currently an opportunity (at the above link, again) to post information about new tenure-track hires made this academic year.
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03 September 2005
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Regarding today's terrorist attacks in London: I am collecting information on the safety and welfare of philosophers in and around London here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/07/london_friends_.html
As some of you know, one of the attacks was very close to UCL, though reports so far are that no one in the philosophical community there was a victim.
On my blog site, there is a thread for members of the philosophical communities affected by the hurricane to post any relevant information. Already many folks from Tulane (all reported safe, so far) have postings. The location is here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/09/philosophy_facu.html
This will remain the top item on the blog site for the week.
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06 June 2005
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(1) The American Philosophical Society, the nation's oldest learned society, has elected new members. Philosophers elected are Stanley Cavell (emeritus, Harvard), Allan Gibbard (Michigan), and Richard Rorty (emeritus, Stanford).
(2) The Department of Philosophy at Princeton University has voted out a senior offer to Alex Byrne (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language) at Massachussetts Institute of Technology.
(3) Political philosopher Michael Otsuka will remain at University College London, rather than moving to the University of California at San Diego as reported earlier.
(4) Connie Rosati (ethics, philosophy of law) at the University of California at Davis has accepted a tenured offer from the University of Arizona.
(5) James van Cleve (metaphysics, epistemology, Kant, modern philosophy), who has been half-time at Brown University and the University of Southern California the last couple of years, is now moving full-time to USC.
(6) Diana Raffman (philosophy of mind, aesthetics) at Ohio State University and Byeong Yi (philosophy of language and logic, metaphysics) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities have both accepted senior offers from the University of Toronto.
(7) Don Garrett (early modern philosophy) at New York University has turned down the senior offer from Yale University.
(8) Three senior philosophers are leaving Northwestern University: Terry Pinkard (Kant and post-Kantian German philosophy) is returning to Georgetown University; Charles Travis (philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics, epistemology) is going to King's College, London, though will visit at Harvard in the fall; and Thomas Ricketts (history of analytic philosophy) has accepted an offer from the University of Pittsburgh.
(9) Robert Cummins (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) at the University of California at Davis has accepted a senior offer from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
(10) Illinois/Urbana has lost a second faculty member to Indiana University, Bloomington this year: Gary Ebbs (philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy, epistemology) has accepted an offer (to start in fall 2006). Earlier this year, Kate Abramson (early modern) at Illinois also accepted an offer from Indiana.
(11) The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has elected new Fellows; philosophers elected are Robert Fogelin (emeritus, Dartmouth), Gilbert Harman (Princeton), Charles Larmore (Chicago), Keith Lehrer (emeritus, but still teaching, Arizona), and Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame).
(12) Stanford has made offers to Joshua Cohen (political philosophy) at MIT and Brian Skyrms (decision and game theory, philosophy of science, metaphysics & epistemology) at the University of California at Irvine; the appointment of Cohen would be joint between Philosophy, Political Science, and Law.
As always, more details and news is available here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/philosophy_updates/
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31 March 2005
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With decision time on U.S. PhD programs at hand, there's lots of news involving Christoher Hill, Colin McGinn, Bob Batterman, and others. It's all collected here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/philosophy_updates/
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08 March 2005
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I have opened a thread on my blog site where information about new tenure-track hires in philosophy can be posted. The thread and posting guidelines are here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/tenuretrack_hir.html
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02 March 2005
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Lots of news on philosophy offers made and accepted (Bob Hale, Delia Graff, Louise Antony, Joseph Levine, others); rather than repost it all here, you can find it all at my blog under the "Philosophy Updates" category here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/philosophy_updates/
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06 January 2005
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Happy New Year to all!
(1) Jennifer Whiting (ancient philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind) at the University of Toronto has declined the senior offer from Stanford University.
(2) Brown University has made a senior offer to Richard Heck (philosophy of language, logic & mathematics; history of analytic philosophy) at Harvard University.
(3) The University of Notre Dame now has three tenured offers outstanding: to Keith DeRose (epistemology, philosophy of language, early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion) at Yale University; to Hans Halvorson (philosophy of physics) at Princeton University; and to Michael Potter (philosophy of math, logic, history of analytic philosophy) at Cambridge University. Professor Halvorson also has an offer from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
More details on several of these developments are, as usual, here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/philosophy_updates/
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22 November 2004
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During the day on Monday, November 22, we will be adding a revised set of rankings to the "Overall Rankings" section of the Philosophical Gourmet Report, to address a statistical problem identified by a member of the Advisory Board (whose department, it should perhaps be added, was unaffected either way by this problem).
In the currently posted ranking, scores were standardized to offset any slight distortions resulting from evaluators awarding different average scores (some gave lots of 4s and 5s, some gave almost none), and from not all evaluators scoring all departments. Standardizing the results puts all the evaluators on the same scale. First, scores are centered by subtracting the mean score for each evaluator from each of that evaluator's scores (each observation); then, each observation was divided by the root-mean-square of that evaluator's scores. After scaling, the distribution of each evaluator's scores has a mean of zero and a variance of one.
While scaling corrects for distortions produced by differing use of the scoring scale by evaluators, it also introduces some, once again attributable to not all evaluators scoring all departments; when this selective scoring has a fairly systematic pattern (say, the evaluator mostly scores “top” departments, but scores a few lower ranked departments as well), the scaled score of the lower ranked departments will be artificially depressed relative to the raw mean.
Therefore, in addition to the ranking by scaled mean, we will add a re-ranking by raw mean as well. This data is presently available, of course, but it seemed worthwhile to re-rank in line with that data as well to make clear the differences. The major effects are towards the bottom of the U.S. top 50, where presumably uncertainty among evaluators about relative placement may be highest.
Note, also, that for purposes of comparison to prior year, and for purposes of comparison across geographic regions, raw means are the appropriate measure. (The scaled means were calculated only over the scores awarded to departments in each geographic region, so are not comparable across those regions.)
Many thanks to readers who have pointed out various typographical errors, broken links, and the like; these changes are being made and will be on-line over the next couple of days.
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19 November 2004
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The Philosophical Gourmet Report for 2004-06 will be released on Friday, November 19, 2004, at about noon in Britain. The new Report will be available at the site of the 2002-04 Report: www.philosophicalgourmet.com
Sincere thanks to all who have contributed to the new edition, and I hope it will be useful to faculty and students alike.
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19 November 2004
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The new Philosophical Gourmet Report for 2004-06 is now on-line at www.philosophicalgourmet.com
A similar message to this effect went out yesterday, but appears not to have gone through.
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15 November 2004
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IN MEMORIAM
Philip Quinn (1940-2004)
The Notre Dame memorial notice is here: http://newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=8100&seltopicid=3427
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11 November 2004
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Apologies for the long delay since the last Update. I have tended to post items more regularly in the "Philosophy Updates" section of my blog, which is now here: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/philosophy_updates/index.html and then aggregate those postings for purposes of the e-mail Update service. However, there isn't that much new since August 20; for additional details on some of these items, see the blog site.
(1) Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (metaphysics), currently at Oxford, has accepted half-time posts (to start fall 2005) at the University of Nottingham in the U.K. and at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aries.
(2) Neil Tennant at Ohio State has taken over from Dale Jacquette as editor of the American Philosophical Quarterly; information on the new editorial office and submissions are here: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/tennant9/apq.html
(3) Glenn McGee, currently Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics at Penn will, effective March 1, 2005, become Balint Professor of Medical Ethics at the Albany Medical College, which is part of Union University in New York; he will also be Professor of Philosophy at Union College and in Health Law at Albany Law School.
(4) Keith DeRose (epistemology, philosophy of language, early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion) at Yale University has declined the offer from Cornell.
(5) Knud Haakonnssen (history of modern philosophy; moral, political, and legal philosophy), currently at Boston University, will take up the Chair in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex in January 2005.
(6) Bilkent University in Turkey has recently started a philosophy department, with an "analytic" orientation; the Department's Chair, Professor Varol Akman, reports that they "are always interested in short- or long-term visitors." More information is available here: http://www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr/
(7) Hans Halvorson (philosophy of physics), currently on tenure-track at Princeton, has a tenured offer from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
(8) Gabriel Uzquiano (logic, philosophical logic, metaphysics), an assistant professor at the University of Rochester, has accepted a tenured offer from Ohio State University, to start in fall 2005.
Finally, the new Philosophical Gourmet Report for 2004-06 will be out very soon. We had originally hoped to have it ready by November 15, but it is likely to be later that week and not later than November 22. The new Report will be at the site of the current Report, www.philosophicalgourmet.com
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20 August 2004
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PLEASE NOTE: There is a final opportunity to review the draft faculty lists for the upcoming reputational survey, that will begin by September 15. You can find the list here:
http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter/archives/001819.html
Please e-mail corrections to bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu
On to news:
(1) Alan Carter (political philosophy, ethics, environmental philosophy) at the University of Colorado at Boulder has accepted the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
(2) Three philosophers have been awarded ACLS Fellowships: Jennifer Church (Vassar), Hannah Ginsborg (Berkeley), and Robert McCauley (Emory). In addition, Robin Jeshion (UC Riverside) has won a Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars.
(3) David Velleman (ethics, philosophy of action) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has accepted the senior offer from New York University, to start in fall 2005.
(4) Robert Pasnau (medieval philosophy) at the University of Colorado at Boulder has turned down the offer from the University of California, San Diego.
(5) Assistant Professor Michael Blake (political philosophy) at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has accepted a tenured joint appointment in Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Washington at Seattle, to start in fall 2005.
(6) Sarah Sawyer (philosophy of language and mind, epistemology) at the University of Kansas has accepted a tenured offer from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
(7) Alan Hajek (philosophy of science, decision theory, epistemology) at the California Institute of Technology has accepted a senior offer from the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.
(8) John Hawthorne (epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, early modern philosophy) at Rutgers University at New Brunswick has turned down the offer from Princeton.
(9) David Chalmers (philosophy of mind) and Paul Griffiths (philosophy of biology) have accepted the Australian Federation Fellowships at, respectively, the Australian National University and the University of Queensland. Chalmers will leave the University of Arizona and Griffiths will leave the University of Pittsburgh, though Griffiths will spend about one month each year as a Visiting Professor at the ERSC Center for Genomics in Society at the University of Exeter.
(10) Cornell University has made a senior offer to Keith DeRose (epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion) at Yale University.
(11) Christopher Janaway (German philosophy, aesthetics) at Birkbeck College, University of London has accepted a Chair in philosophy at the University of Southampton, to start in January 2005.
More details-including links to memorial notices for Sidney Morgenbesser (1921-2004), John Passmore (1914-2004), and John Watling (1923-2004)--are available, as always, here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter/archives/cat_philosophy_updates.html
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10 July 2004
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(1) Australian Federation Fellowships, Australia's most lucrative chairs, have been offered to David Chalmers at University of Arizona (to be based at the Australian National University); Paul Griffiths at the University of Pittsburgh (to be based at the University of Queensland--note that Griffiths had recently accepted an offer at Exeter in the UK); and Philip Pettit at Princeton University (to be based at the University of Sydney).
(2) The British Academy has elected new Fellows, including philosophers R.A. Duff (University of Stirling) and Peter Simons (University of Leeds) and, as Corresponding Fellows, Sydney Shoemaker (emeritus, Cornell University) and Bob Goodin (Australian National University).
(3) The Royal Society of Canada has elected new Fellows, including philosophy Thomas Lennon (University of Western Ontario).
(4) William Demopoulos (philosophy of logic and mathematics, philosophy of science and physics, history of analytic philosophy) at the University of Western Ontario has accepted an offer from the Department of Logic & Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, to start in January 2005.
(5) Helen Longino (philosophy of science, epistemology, feminist philosophy) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities has accepted an offer from Stanford University, to start in fall 2005.
(6) Washington University, St. Louis has made two more tenured hires: John Doris (ethics, moral psychology) from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Clare Palmer (environmental ethics) from Lancaster University in Britain.
(7) Two more faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder have external offers: Alan Carter (moral and political philosophy, environmental ethics) from La Trobe University in Australia (where he would also be Chair of the Department), and Robert Pasnau (medieval philosophy) from the University of California at San Diego.
(8) Mark Rowlands (philosophy of mind, cognitive science, ethics) at the University of Exeter has accepted the Chair at the University of Hertfordshire, to start in August.
As always, more details on some of these appointments are here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter/archives/cat_philosophy_updates.html
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15 June 2004
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IN MEMORIAM
Stuart Hampshire (1914-2004)
A memorial notice and intellectual biography from The Telegraph is here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=VI1YGAMMTOPRNQFIQMGCNAGAVCBQUJVC?xml=/news/2004/06/15/db1501.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/06/15/ixportal.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=12031
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15 June 2004
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Here is the correct link for the Hampshire obituary (suitably condensed): http://tinyurl.com/3hxrc
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07 June 2004
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: The draft list of faculties for the 2004-06 PGR has been updated here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/001343.html . Please pay particular attention to the lists of "affiliated faculty." Faculty eligible for addition to these lists must be (1) full or part-time at the same university; (2) not retired/emeritus or adjunct; and (3) faculty who work with PhD students in philosophy and who are eligible to sit on dissertation committees for philosophy PhD students. Send notice of additions and corrections to bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu
(1) Jonathan Dancy (ethics, epistemology, early modern) at the University of Reading has accepted a half-time appointment with tenure at the University of Texas at Austin, to begin January 2005.
(2) George Bealer (metaphysics, epistemology) at the University of Colorado at Boulder has accepted the senior offer from the University of Texas at Austin, to start this fall.
(3) Michael Strevens (philosophy of science, philosophy of physics) at Stanford University has accepted the tenured offer from New York University.
(4) Susanna Siegel (philosophy of mind and language), a tenure-track associate professor at Harvard, has turned down the tenure-track offer from the University of Arizona.
(5) Mark Heller (metaphysics, epistemology) at Southern Methodist University has accepted a senior offer from Syracuse University, to start this fall.
(6) Colin Allen (philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology) at Texas A&M University has accepted appointment as Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University at Bloomington to start this fall.
(7) Paul Roth (philosophy of social science, philosophy and sociology of sicence) at the University of Missouri at St. Louis has accepted appointment as Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
More details on several of these appointments are available here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/cat_philosophy_updates.html
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26 May 2004
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: In preparation for the 2004-06 PGR, and with the approval of the Advisory Board, we are making available a draft set of faculty lists for the programs to be evaluated. You can download it by going here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/001343.html Please notify bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu of additions or corrections. Many thanks for your assistance.
(1) Roger Ariew (early modern) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University has accepted appointment as Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of South Florida. In addition, Hugh LaFollette (applied ethics), previously at East Tennesse State University, has accepted the Cole Chair in Ethics at the St. Petersburg campus of USF, though will be available to graduate students at the main campus.
(2) Manfred Kuehn (Kant, modern philosophy) at the University of Marburg (and, before that, Purdue University) has accepted a senior offer from Boston University, to start this fall. (He is replacing, in effect, Henry Allison, who is moving to a part-time post at the University of California at Davis.)
(3) Paul Griffiths (philosophy of biology and psychology), currently Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Exeter, has accepted appointment as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Exeter, where he will join John Dupre and Mark Rowlands, among others.
(4) Cristina Bicchieri (rational choice and game theory, political philosophy) at Carnegie-Mellon University has accepted a senior offer from the University of Pennsylvania, where she will also be Director of the Philosophy, Politics & Economics Program.
(5) The Philosophy Department at Temple University has made four lateral appointments this year: two scholars working on issues at the intersection of philosophy and race (Lewis Gordon from the Africana Studies Department at Brown University and Paul Taylor, currently an assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle); Noel Carroll, the philosopher of art, from the University of Wisconsin at Madison; and Michael Thau (philosophy of mind), who is currently an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
(6) Stephen Gardiner (moral and political philosophy), currently an assistant professor at the University of Utah, has accepted a tenure-track appointment at the University of Washington, Seattle.
As usual, more details on some of these appointments is available here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/cat_philosophy_updates.html
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18 May 2004
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As a subscriber to the Update Service, you will have just received an Update originally sent on May 7. Due to problems with the service--now fixed, we believe--you may also not have received Updates from April 21 and 13. You can find those Updates in the archives here: http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/updates/archlist2.asp
IN MEMORIAM
Alan Gewirth (1912-2004)
An informative memorial notice from the University of Chicago is here: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040517.gewirth.shtml
IN MEMORIAM
Alan Gewirth (1912-2004)
An informative memorial notice from the University of Chicago is here:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040517.gewirth.shtml
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18 May 2004
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(1) Charles Siewert (philosophy of mind) at the University of Miami has accepted a senior offer from the University of California at Riverside.
(2) Medieval philosophy scholar the Rev. John Jenkins at the University of Notre Dame has been named the new President of the university.
(3) The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the election of new fellows, including the following five philosophers: Ned Block (NYU), Alvin Goldman (Rutgers), Tony Martin (UCLA), Peter Railton (Michigan), and Samuel Scheffler (Berkeley).
(4) New York University has voted out tenured offers to Paul Horwich (philosophy of language, philosophy of science) at the City University of New York Graduate Center; James Pryor (epistemology) at Princeton University; Michael Strevens (philosophy of science and physics), currently untenured at Stanford University; and David Velleman (ethics, philosophy of action) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
(5) Denis Walsh (philosophy of biology) at the University of Edinburgh has accepted a tenured joint appointment n the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, to begin in July 2005.
(6) Washington University, St. Louis has made a tenured offer to John Doris (ethics) at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
(7) The University of Texas at Austin has made tenured offers to George Bealer (metaphysics, epistemology) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Jonathan Dancy (ethics, epistemology, early modern philosophy) at the University of Reading. Dancy recently declined a Chair in ethics at Johns Hopkins University, while Bealer also has a senior offer from the University of Florida at Gainesville.
(8) Princeton University has voted out tenured offers to Delia Graff (philosophy of language, philosophical logic) at Cornell University; and John Hawthorne (epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, early modern philosophy) and Tim Maudlin (philosophy of science and physics, metaphysics) at Rutgers University at New Brunswick; and a tenure-track offer to Michael Fara (philosophy of language) at Cornell.
As usual, more details on some of the preceding are available here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/cat_philosophy_updates.html
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07 May 2004
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(1) Charles Siewert (philosophy of mind) at the University of Miami has accepted a senior offer from the University of California at Riverside.
(2) Medieval philosophy scholar the Rev. John Jenkins at the University of Notre Dame has been named the new President of the university.
(3) The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the election of new fellows, including the following five philosophers: Ned Block (NYU), Alvin Goldman (Rutgers), Tony Martin (UCLA), Peter Railton (Michigan), and Samuel Scheffler (Berkeley).
(4) New York University has voted out tenured offers to Paul Horwich (philosophy of language, philosophy of science) at the City University of New York Graduate Center; James Pryor (epistemology) at Princeton University; Michael Strevens (philosophy of science and physics), currently untenured at Stanford University; and David Velleman (ethics, philosophy of action) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
(5) Denis Walsh (philosophy of biology) at the University of Edinburgh has accepted a tenured joint appointment n the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, to begin in July 2005.
(6) Washington University, St. Louis has made a tenured offer to John Doris (ethics) at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
(7) The University of Texas at Austin has made tenured offers to George Bealer (metaphysics, epistemology) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Jonathan Dancy (ethics, epistemology, early modern philosophy) at the University of Reading. Dancy recently declined a Chair in ethics at Johns Hopkins University, while Bealer also has a senior offer from the University of Florida at Gainesville.
(8) Princeton University has voted out tenured offers to Delia Graff (philosophy of language, philosophical logic) at Cornell University; and John Hawthorne (epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, early modern philosophy) and Tim Maudlin (philosophy of science and physics, metaphysics) at Rutgers University at New Brunswick; and a tenure-track offer to Michael Fara (philosophy of language) at Cornell.
As usual, more details on some of the preceding are available here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/cat_philosophy_updates.html
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21 April 2004
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(1) Brie Gertler (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has accepted an offer from the University of Virginia.
(2) Elinor Mason (ethics), an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has accepted an offer from the University of Edinburgh.
(3) Benjamin Hellie (philosophy of mind) and Jessica Wilson (metaphysics, philosophy of science), assistant professors at Cornell and Michigan, respectively, have declined the offers from Ohio State University. Wilson has also declined a tenure-track offer from Syracuse University.
(4) Anthony Gillies (epistemology, philosophy of language, decision theory), currently on tenure-track at Harvard University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
(5) The University of Arizona has made a tenure-track offer to Susanna Siegel (philosophy of mind and language), currently on tenure-track at Harvard.
(6) Rae Langton (Kant, feminist philosophy, moral and political philosophy, metaphysics), the Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and Richard Holton (ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of action, philosophy of language, philosophy of law), also at Edinburgh, have accepted senior offers from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology.
(7) Paul Franks (Kant and German Idealism, Jewish philosophy, modern philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology) at the University of Notre Dame has accepted an offer from the University of Toronto.
(8) Robin Jeshion (philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of math) and Michael Nelson (philosophy of language), currently at Yale University, have accepted offers from the University of California at Riverside: she as a full professor,he as a tenure-track assistant professor.
(9) Two assistant professors at the University of Pennsylvania working in moral and political philosophy are leaving: Ulrike Heuer has accepted a post at the University of Leeds, and Rahul Kumar has accepted a (tenured) position at Queen's University (Canada).
(10) Thomas Pogge (political philosophy) at Columbia University will be on the faculty of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the Australian National University for at least the next two years, perhaps longer.
As usual, more details on some of the preceding are available here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/cat_philosophy_updates.html
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13 April 2004
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(1) Derek Parfit, one of the world's leading moral philosophers, has accepted a part-time appointment at Rutgers University at New Brunswick. Details of the appointment are here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/001039.html#001039.
(2) Harold Noonan (metaphysics, philosophy of mind and language, philosophical logic) at the University of Birmingham has accepted a professorial appointment at the University of Nottingham.
(3) John Martin Fischer (philosophy of action, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion) at the University of California at Riverside has declined the offer to be Chair of the Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Memorial notices for Joel Feinberg have been collected by the Arizona Department here: http://w3.arizona.edu/%7Ephil/feinberg.htm
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30 March 2004
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IN MEMORIAM
Joel Feinberg (1926-2004)
Some preliminary information from the Arizona Department is here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/001021.html. When other memorial notices are available, links will be posted.
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30 March 2004
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(1) Bill Brewer (philosophy of mind and action, metaphysics, epistemology) at Oxford University has accepted a professorial chair at the University of Warwick.
(2) Andy Clark (philosophy of mind/cognitive science/artificial intelligent) and Josefa Toribio (philosophy of mind and language) at Indiana University at Bloomington have accepted offers from the University of Edinburgh. Clark will hold the Chair in Logic & Metaphysics there.
(3) Timothy O'Connor (philosophy of mind and action, metaphysics, philosophy of religion) at Indiana University at Bloomington has turned down the offer from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
(4) Michael Glanzberg (philosophical logic, philosophy of language), currently at the University of Toronto, has accepted a tenured offer from the University of California at Davis.
(5) Christopher ("Kit") Wellman (political, legal, and moral philosophy) at Georgia State University has accepted a tenured offer from Washington University, St. Louis.
(6) John Heil (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology) at Davidson College has accepted a senior offer from Washington University, St. Louis.
(7) Mark Timmons (ethics, metaethics, epistemology) at the University of Memphis has accepted the senior offer from the University of Arizona.
(8) Ohio State University has made tenure-track offers to Benjamin Hellie (philosophy of mind) and Jessica Wilson (metaphysics, philosophy of science) who are, respectively, assistant professors at Cornell University and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Syracuse University has also made Wilson an offer.
Here is a SECOND DRAFT of tenure-track hiring by PhD and MA programs this year. Once again, graduates are listed by the school from which they earned their PhD.
TENURE-TRACK HIRES AT Ph.D.-GRANTING AND TERMINAL M.A. PROGRAMS 2003-04
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Josh Parsons was hired by the University of California, Davis. AOS: Metaphysics, Ethics. He was previously a postdoctoral and then research fellow at the University of St. Andrews.
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Uriah Kriegel was hired by the University of Arizona. AOS: Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Jonathan Gilmore was hired by Yale University. AOS: Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Law, Continental Philosophy. He has previously held several postdoctoral positions, most recently at Princeton.
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Frederic Bouchard was hired by the University of Montreal. AOS: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychology.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Thomas Kelly was hired by Princeton University. AOS: Epistemology, Ethics. He was previously tenure-track at the University of Notre Dame.
MASSACHUSSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
James John was hired by the University of Iowa. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Metaethics.
Jennifer McKitrick was hired by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science. She was previously tenure-track at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Agustin Rayo was hired by the University of California, San Diego. AOS: Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the University of St. Andrews.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Adam Pautz was hired by the University of Texas, Austin. AOS: Philosophy of Mind.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Steven Weinstein was hired by the University of Waterloo. AOS: Philosophy of Science and Physics. He taught previously (in non-tenure-track positions) at Dartmouth College and Princeton University.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Antony Eagle was hired by Oxford University. AOS: Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Foundations of Probability.
Reina Hayaki was hired by Georgia State University. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophical Logic. She was previously tenure-track at Union College.
Gillian Russell was hired by Washington University, St. Louis: AOS: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology.
Hanoch Sheinman was hired by Rice University. AOS: Philosophy of Law.
Mark Schroeder was hired by the University of Maryland, College Park. AOS: Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology.
Kevin Zaragoza was hired by the University of Georgia. AOS: Ethics, Moral Psychology.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK
Jill North was hired by Yale University. AOS: Philosophy of Physics. She also has accepted a postdoc at New York University.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Alex Voorhoeve was hired (in to a permanent post) at the London School of Economics. AOS: Political Philosophy.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
Patricia Marino was hired by the University of Waterloo. AOS: Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Philosophy of Mathematics.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Matt Kisner was hired by the University of South Carolina. AOS: Early Modern Philosophy.
P.D. Magnus was hired by the State University of New York, Albany. AOS: Philosophy of Science and Physics.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Rachana Kamtekar was hired by the University of Arizona. AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics. She was previously tenure-track at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and before that, at Williams College.
David Sussman was hired by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. AOS: Ethics, Kant. He was previously tenure-track at Princeton University. (Sussman was a student of Korsgaard, who started with her at Chicago, but then followed Korsgaard to Harvard.)
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSSETTS, AMHERST
Dan Kaufman was hired by the University of Colorado, Boulder. AOS: Early Modern Philosophy. He was previously tenure-track at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Kris McDaniel was hired by Syracuse University. AOS: Metaphysics.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL
Thomas Holden was hired by the University of California, Santa Barbara. AOS: Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics. He was previously on tenure-track at Syracuse University.
Colleen Murphy was hired by Texas A&M University. AOS: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law.
Dan Ryder was hired by the University of Connecticut, Storrs. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Metaphysics. He was previously on a post-doc at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Matthew Smith was hired by Yale University. AOS: Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Derrick Darby was hired by Texas A&M University. AOS: Moral and Political Philosophy. He was previously tenure-track at Northwestern University.
Douglas Lavin was hired by Harvard University. AOS: Ethics.
Melissa Merritt was hired by Georgia State University. AOS: Kant, Early Modern Philosophy.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
Sylvia Berryman was hired by the University of British Columbia. AOS: Ancient Philosophy. She was previously tenure-track at Ohio State University.
Matt Evans was hired by New York University. AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Monte Johnson was hired by St. Louis University. AOS: Ancient Philosophy. He was previously on a post-doc at the University of British Columbia.
Anthony Skelton was hired by the University of Western Ontario. AOS: Ethics. He will be on a postdoc at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor next academic year.
YALE UNIVERSITY
Desmond Hogan was hired by Princeton University. AOS: Kant, Early Modern Philosophy.
YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO
Duff Waring was hired by Atkinson College, York University, Toronto. AOS: Applied Ethics, Bioethics.
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30 March 2004
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This is sufficiently notable (especially for students considering Columbia) that it warrants a second posting in the same day: Christopher Peacocke (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and mind) at New York University has accepted an offer uptown, from Columbia University.
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19 March 2004
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(1) Jason Stanley (philosophy of language) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has accepted the offer from Rutgers University at New Brunswick. More details and editorial comments are here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000971.html
Here is a FIRST DRAFT of tenure-track hiring by PhD- and MA-granting programs for 2003-04. I'm sure the list is not yet complete, and welcome notifications of additions and corrections at bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu. Remember the list is confined ONLY to hiring by PhD and MA programs, since that may have some bearing on decisions that prospective students will be making in the next few weeks.
Newly hired tenure-track faculty are listed by the school from which they earned their Ph.D.
TENURE-TRACK HIRES AT Ph.D.-GRANTING AND TERMINAL M.A. PROGRAMS 2003-04
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Josh Parsons was hired by the University of California, Davis. AOS: Metaphysics, Ethics. He was previously a postdoctoral and then research fellow at the University of St. Andrews.
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Uriah Kriegel was hired by the University of Arizona. AOS: Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Jonathan Gilmore was hired by Yale University. AOS: Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Law, Continental Philosophy. He has previously held several postdoctoral positions, most recently at Princeton.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Thomas Kelly was hired by Princeton University. AOS: Epistemology, Ethics. He was previously tenure-track at the University of Notre Dame.
MASSACHUSSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
James John was hired by the University of Iowa. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Metaethics.
Jennifer McKitrick was hired by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science. She was previously tenure-track at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Agustin Rayo was hired by the University of California, San Diego. AOS: Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the University of St. Andrews.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Adam Pautz was hired by the University of Texas, Austin. AOS: Philosophy of Mind.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Steven Weinstein was hired by the University of Waterloo. AOS: Philosophy of Science and Physics. He taught previously (in non-tenure-track positions) at Dartmouth College and Princeton University.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Reina Hayaki was hired by Georgia State University. AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophical Logic.
Mark Schroeder was hired by the University of Maryland, College Park. AOS: Ethics.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK
Jill North was hired by Yale University. AOS: Philosophy of Physics. She also has accepted a postdoc at New York University.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Alex Voorhoeve was hired (in to a permanent post) at the London School of Economics. AOS: Political Philosophy.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
Patricia Marino was hired by the University of Waterloo. AOS: Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Philosophy of Mathematics.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Matt Kisner was hired by the University of South Carolina. AOS: Early Modern Philosophy.
P.D. Magnus was hired by the State University of New York, Albany. AOS: Philosophy of Science and Physics.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Rachana Kamtekar was hired by the University of Arizona. AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics. She was previously tenure-track at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and before that, at Williams College.
David Sussman was hired by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. AOS: Ethics, Kant. He was previously tenure-track at Princeton University. (Sussman was a student of Korsgaard, who started with her at Chicago, but then followed Korsgaard to Harvard.)
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSSETTS, AMHERST
Dan Kaufman was hired by the University of Colorado, Boulder. AOS: Early Modern Philosophy. He was previously tenure-track at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Kris McDaniel was hired by Syracuse University. AOS: Metaphysics.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL
Thomas Holden was hired by the University of California, Santa Barbara. AOS: Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics. He was previously on tenure-track at Syracuse University.
Dan Ryder was hired by the University of Connecticut, Storrs. AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Metaphysics. He was previously on a post-doc at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Matthew Smith was hired by Yale University. AOS: Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Douglas Lavin was hired by Harvard University. AOS: Ethics.
Melissa Merritt was hired by Georgia State University. AOS: Kant, Early Modern Philosophy.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
Sylvia Berryman was hired by the University of British Columbia. AOS: Ancient Philosophy. She was previously tenure-track at Ohio State University.
Matt Evans was hired by New York University. AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Monte Johnson was hired by St. Louis University. AOS: Ancient Philosophy. He was previously on a post-doc at the University of British Columbia.
Anthony Skelton was hired by the University of Western Ontario. AOS: Ethics. He will be on a postdoc at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor next academic year.
YALE UNIVERSITY
Desmond Hogan was hired by Princeton University. AOS: Kant, Early Modern Philosophy.
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18 March 2004
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Correction: the right link for more details on some of these recent appointments is:
http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/cat_philosophy_updates.html
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18 March 2004
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(1) Thomas Kelly (epistemology, ethics), currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, has accepted a tenure-track offer from Princeton University.
(2) David Sussman (ethics, Kant), currently an Assistant Professor at Princeton University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(3) Shaun Nichols (philosophy of psychology, cognitive science, ethics), currently an Associate Professor at the College of Charleston, has accepted an offer from the University of Utah.
More details on some of these moves are, as usual, here:
http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/cat_philosphy_updates.html
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10 March 2004
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(1) Christopher Shields (ancient philosophy) at the University of Colorado at Boulder has accepted an offer from Oxford University.
(2) Fraser MacBride (metaphysics, philosophy of math) at the University of St. Andrews has accepted a Readership at Birkbeck College, University of London.
(3) Jeffrey King (philosophy of language) at the University of California at Davis has accepted the offer from the University of Southern California.
(4) The University of Colorado at Boulder has made an offer to Timothy O'Connor (metaphysics, philosophy of action, philosophy of religion) at Indiana University at Bloomington.
More details about some of the preceding developments are here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/cat_philosphy_updates.html.
A Committee of the APA stacked with PGR bashers has proposed a new "statement" on rankings; details are here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000915.html.
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03 March 2004
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(1) Ishitaque Haji (ethics, metaphysics, action theory) at the University of Minnesota, Morris has accepted a senior offer from the University of Calgary. Last year, Calgary also appointed Noa Latham (philosophy of mind, metaphysics), who had taught previously at Barnard College. (This latter appointment had been missed in previous updates; apologies.)
(2) The University of Arizona has made a senior offer to Mark Timmons (ethics, metaethics) at the University of Memphis.
(3) John Campbell (philosophy of mind) at Oxford University has accepted the senior offer from the University of California, Berkeley.
(4) Thomas Holden (early modern), an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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26 February 2004
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(1) Scott Soames (philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy) at Princeton University has accepted the senior offer from the University of Southern California. More on the significance of this move is here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000861.html
(2) Oxford University has made an offer to Christopher Shields (ancient philosophy, metaphysics) at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
(3) Dan Kaufman (early modern), currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida at Gainesville, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
(4) The University of California at Santa Cruz has made a senior offer to John Martin Fischer (philosophy of action, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion) to be the new Chair of their department. Fischer is currently at the University of California at Riverside.
(5) The University of California at Riverside has made tenured offers to Robin Jeshion (philosophy of language, philosophy of math) at Yale University and Gideon Yaffe (philosophy of action, early modern, philosophy of law) at the University of Southern California, and a tenure-track offer to Michael Nelson (philosophy of language), currently an Assistant Professor at Yale University.
As in prior years, I will be posting a list of new tenure-track hires at PhD-granting programs in late March. (I have posted some news of lateral tenure-track hires already, but will include those as well in the late March posting.) I welcome notification of such hires by either the candidates hired, the hiring departments, or the placement directors of chairs of the departments from which the candidates received their Ph.Ds. Send notifications to bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu. Thanks.
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18 February 2004
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(1) Julia Annas (ancient, ethics) and David Owen (early modern), both at the University of Arizona, have declined the offers from the University of Notre Dame.
(2) Rachana Kamtekar (ancient, ethics), currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of Arizona.
(3) Brian Weatherson (epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of language, among other areas), currently at Brown University, has accepted a tenured offer from Cornell University.
(4) The University of California at Davis has made a tenured offer to Michael Glanzberg (philosophical logic) at the University of Toronto.
(5) Scott Soames (philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy) has declined the offer from the University of Texas at Austin; he still has an offer outstanding from the University of Southern California.
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13 February 2004
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(1) Sylvia Berryman (ancient philosophy), currently on tenure-track at Ohio State University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of British Columbia, her undergraduate alma mater.
(2) A banner year for philosophers in securing support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Philosophers garnering NEH support are: Julia Driver (Dartmouth), Gail Fine (Cornell), Richard Miller (Cornell), Bryan van Norden (Vassar), Catherine Elgin (Harvard), John Horty (Maryland), David Cunning (Iowa), Gabriel Carone (Colorado), Joel Kupperman (Connecticut), David DeGrazia (George Washington), Barbara Montero (Georgia State), Kit Wellman (Georgia State), Jon McGinnis (Missouri/St. Louis), Trenton Merrick (Virginia), Michael Zimmerman (North Carolina/Greensboro), Bennett Helm (Franklin & Marshall), Robert Rupert (Texas Tech), Peter Vranas (Iowa State), and Emily Grosholz (Penn State).
More information is available here: http://www.neh.gov/pdf/fellowships2003.pdf
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06 February 2004
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(1) Quassim Cassam (metaphysics, epistemology, Kant), currently at Oxford University, has accepted appointment as Professor of Philosophy at University College London, to begin January 1, 2005. More details here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000786.html
(2) Michael Lynch (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and mind), currently Chair of the Department at Connecticut College, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
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29 January 2004
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(1) John Hawthorne (philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, Leibniz) and Ted Sider (metaphysics, philosophy of language), both at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, and Jason Stanley (philosophy of language) at Michigan, have turned down the Yale offers. Bad break for Yale. Stanley still has an offer from Rutgers in hand.
(2) Stanford has made a senior offer to Helen Longino (philosophy of science, feminist philosophy) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul. This offer was actually extended awhile ago, and so is unrelated to the recent decision by Elliott Sober to return to Wisconsin.
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27 January 2004
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IN MEMORIAM
Zeno Vendler (1921-2004)
The University of Calgary's informative memorial notice is here: http://www.phil.ucalgary.ca/people/vendler.html.
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24 January 2004
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(1) Stewart Shapiro (philosophy of logic and math) at Ohio State University has turned down the senior offer from the University of Notre Dame. That's a big victory for OSU.
(2) Princeton has made an offer to Thomas Kelly (epistemology, ethics), currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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22 January 2004
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(1) The distinguished philosopher of science and biology Elliott Sober, who is currently Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University while on leave from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has decided to return full-time to the Wisconsin faculty, effective fall 2004. That's a significant development; do alert your students considering either Stanford or Wisconsin (especially those interested in philosophy of biology) to this development.
(2) Fred D'Agostino (philosophy of linguistics, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, philosophy of science) at the University of New England has accepted a senior appointment at the University of Queensland, where he will be Associate Professor in Humanities and Director of Contemporary Studies. This is the third senior appointment for Queensland in the last two years; the others were Mark Colyvan and Phil Dowe, who work in and around metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of logic and math.
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16 January 2004
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IN MEMORIAM
Noberto Bobbio (1909-2004)
There is an informative obituary in The Guardian here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1121657,00.html
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15 January 2004
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(1) Ned Block (philosophy of mind) at New York University has turned down the offer from Harvard University.
(2) Keith DeRose (epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion) at Yale University has turned down the offer from the University of Arizona.
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10 January 2004
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(1) Adam Morton (epistemology, philosophy of mind), currently half-time at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, has accepted a Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta.
(2) Robert Brandom at the University of Pittsburgh is the lone philosopher among this year's recipients of the lucrative Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Awards in the Humanities. More information is here: http://www.mellon.org/Announcements-DAA%202003.htm.
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19 December 2003
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Because most applications for graduate programs are due in January, it seemed advisable to alert prospective students to some major offers that have at least been voted out of departments, and in some cases are "official" offers in the hands of recipients. Updates on these possible faculty moves will be posted in the future:
Rutgers University at New Brunswick has voted an offer to Jason Stanley (philosophy of language) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
University of Arizona has voted an offer to Keith DeRose (epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion) at Yale University.
University of Notre Dame has voted offers to Julia Annas (ancient philosophy, ethics) and David Owen (early modern philosophy) at the University of Arizona. (Notre Dame still has an offer outstanding as well to Stewart Shapiro [philosophy of math and logic] at Ohio State University.)
University of Texas at Austin has voted an offer to Scott Soames (philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy) at Princeton University.
Cornell University has voted an offer to Brian Weatherson (philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, decision theory) at Brown University.
Yale University has voted offers to John Hawthorne (philosophy of language, metaphysics, Leibniz) and Ted Sider (metaphysics, philosophy of language), both at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, and to Jason Stanley (philosophy of language) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
The Government Department at Harvard University has voted an offer to Michael Rosen (political philosophy, Continental philosophy) at Oxford University.
Also, if you have not already, be sure to check the Summary of Faculty Moves from last year here: http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000234.html#000234
Good luck to all students with their applications and best wishes to all for the holidays and the New Year.
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16 December 2003
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Luc Bovens (epistemology, decision theory, philospohy of science, ethics/political) at the University of Colorado at Boulder has accepted a senior post at the London School of Economics, where he is currently visiting. He does still have a counter-offer outstanding from Colorado until next fall, and so there is some prospect he might return to Boulder.
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08 December 2003
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Michael Jubien (metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language) at the University of California at Davis has accepted a senior offer from the University of Florida at Gainesville, to start next fall. Last year, Florida made another significant senior appointment of David Copp (ethics, metaethics) from Bowling Green State University (Copp was, prior to that, a colleague of Jubien's at Davis). Adding these two distinguished senior philosophers to a large number of good, productive younger philosophers already at Florida (Murat Aydede, Kirk Ludwig, John Palmer, Greg Ray, among others) makes it rather likely, I think, that the Florida Ph.D. program will crack the top 50.
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01 December 2003
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Dan Brock, one of the most talented philosophers working in medical ethics, will be leaving the National Institute of Health at the end of March 2004 to take up a new Chair at the Harvard Medical School, where he will direct the Division of Medical Ethics and participate in a new university-wide program in ethics and health. Other units at Harvard have in the last year or two added other first-rate philosophers working in and around medical ethics, including Norman Daniels, Frances Myrna Kamm, and Daniel Wikler. (Only Kamm, so far, has an official appointment in the Philosophy Department proper.) This latest addition certainly makes Harvard the place to be for | | |
