This is a bit belated, but still worth noting: Hans-Georg Moeller (Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy), previously of Brock University in Canada, accepted appointment as Senior Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland this past January 1. Last year, UCC added Graham Parkes, who also works in Asian and comparative philosophy (among other areas), frmo the University of Hawaii.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, well-known for his work in a variety of areas (epistemology, ethics, moral psychology, among others), and a longtime faculty member at Dartmouth College has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Duke University, where he will start in Spring 2010. Duke has made a substantial investment in value theory over the last decade, with senior appointments of Allen Buchanan, Gopal Sreenivasan, Wayne Norman, and now Sinnott-Armstrong.
Meanwhile, Dartmouth has really taken some serious hits at the senior ranks over the last decade, losing, among others, Robert Fogelin to retirement, Sally Sedgwick to the University of Illinois at Chicago, Julia Driver and Roy Sorensen to Washington University in St. Louis, and now Sinnott-Armstrong.
John Bickle (philosophy of mind, science, and cognitive science), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Mississippi State University, where he will also become Head of Department. The MSU announcement is here.
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 18--SEE UPDATE
The Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California at Irvine has made a senior offer to Hannes Leitgeb, Professor of Mathematical Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Bristol.
UPDATE: Professor Leitgeb has declined the offer, a significant retention coup for Bristol and its very strong logic group.
Daniel Jacobson (ethics, metaethics, aesthetics), Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he took his PhD in the early 1990s. He will start at Michigan this fall.
I was fortunate to overlap in grad school with Dan at Michigan between 1988 and 1991, and have followed and learned from his work ever since. Dan is also now writing the volume on Mill in The Routledge Philosophers series, and I am sure this will be an important and much-discussed book. In any event, that's an excellent appointment for Michigan.
I thought it might be useful to update in one place the status of the 'moves to watch for' noted in the last PGR; in quick summary form:
1. David Chalmers (ANU) turned down Princeton and Rutgers, and accepted a half-time post at NYU. Due to the different calendar years, he will remain more-or-less full-time in Canberra as well.
2. Daniel Jacobson (Bowling Green) turned down UC San Diego.
3. Gabriel Richardson Lear and Jonathan Lear (both Chicago) turned down Yale.
4. John MacFarlane (Berkeley) turned down Harvard and NYU.
5. Michael Otsuka (UCL) turned down Pittsburgh.
6. Kieran Setiya (Pittsburgh) turned down Texas.
7. Allen Wood and Rega Wood (Indiana) will return to Stanford, though Rega will only teach the next two years there.
Jeremy Waldron (NYU) is still negotiating with Oxford on the offer of the Chichele Professorship in Social & Political Theory, and Calvin Normore, currently splitting between UCLA and McGill, has not, to the best of my knowledge, made a final decision about whether that arrangement will continue or whether he will move full-time to one or the other.
There is a short memorial notice on the homepage of the Berkeley Department, where Professor Mates studied or taught for roughly half a century.
Crispin Wright, now at New York University, will leave his part-time post at the University of St. Andrews and the Arche Centre there this summer, and take up leadership (again on a part-time basis) of the new Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. There are more details here. Like Arche, the Institute will support six quarter-time research fellows and no doubt be a further boon to the revival of philosophy at Aberdeen, which has also recently appointed (part-time) Stephen Gaukroger (early modern) from Sydney and (full-time) Catherine Wilson (early modern, ethics) from the CUNY Grad Center. (The Arche Center is slated to continue, even without Wright, though it is possible some of the part-time fellows there will also end up moving to Aberdeen.)
Allen Wood (Kant, 19th-Century Continental philosophy) and Rega Wood (medieval philosophy), who moved last year to Indiana University at Bloomington from Stanford University, will return to Stanford, though Rega will only be teaching at Stanford for the next two years. That's a set-back for Indiana, and a good break for Stanford.
Martin Kutsch (philosophy of science, social epistemology, Wittgenstein, 20th-century German philosophy), Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, will take up a chair in philosophy of science and epistemology at the University of Vienna beginning this summer.
Michael Otsuka (political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at University College London, has turned down the senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.
Charles Siewert (philosophy of mind), Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Riverside, has accepted a chair in philosophy at Rice University, where he will start in July 2010.
David Shoemaker (ethics, metaphysics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, has accepted appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University (with a joint appointment in Tulane's Murphy Institute), effective this fall.
Juan Comesana (epistemology) and Carolina Sartorio (metaphysics, ethics) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have accepted offers to be Associate Professors of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. That's a major pick-up for Arizona, especially after the loss of L.A. Paul (metaphysics) to North Carolina last year.
Sean Kelsey (ancient philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame has also made a tenured offer to Andrew Chignell (Kant, early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion) at Cornell University.
John Lysaker (philosophical psychology, American philosophy, 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy) at the University of Oregon has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Emory University, where he will start this fall.
John MacFarlane (philosophy of language, philosophy of logic) at the University of California at Berkeley has turned down the senior offers from the Departments of Philosophy at New York University and Harvard University. That's a major retention coup for Berkeley!
MOVING TO FRONT FOR THE LAST TIME THIS HIRING SEASON (ORIGINALLY POSTED FEBRUARY 2)
It's that time of year again...I am opening comments on this thread for people to post news about junior, tenure-track hires in philosophy departments, i.e., hires made during this year of new assistant professors who will be starting in fall 2009 (or thereafter). (For schools outside the US, please list new Lecturers who are on presumptively permanent appointments--not temporary lecturers.) Like last year, you may also post information about post-doc appointments, since there are an increasing number of those in philosophy, many quite attractive. No anonymous posts will be allowed. The candidates themselves, dissertation advisors, placement directors, department chairs, or faculty members involved with the hiring or the placement of the candidate may all post information. No hearsay, however: you must have first-hand knowledge of the placement. (Please e-mail me about any errors.)
The format of the postings should be as follows: candidate's name (name of PhD-granting school) hired by [name of school]. AOS: ________; any prior positions (e.g., a postdoc, a lectureship, a visiting asst prof position). In the case of a post-doc, it should say not 'hired by' but 'post-doc at' [name of school].
Here's an example (fictional):
John Smith (Chicago) hired by Kenyon College. AOS: 19th-Century Continental Philosophy. Previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University.
Remember: tenure-track jobs and postdocs only. I'll move this thread to the front at various intervals until it looks like the hiring season has wound down. Please post only once; postings should appear within 24 hours.
ADDENDUM (2/26): Some readers have expressed concern at the relative dearth of postings on this thread. Obviously this is a bad year on the job market, though I should mention that I know of at least a half-dozen jobs that have been accepted that have not yet appeared here. I imagine some of them will before long. ANOTHER (3/3): Another reader points out that as of March 1, the total number of postings to this thread wasn't much different than at this time last year.
Chris Fraser, a specialist in Chinese philosophy, who is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has accepted appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hong Kong University, effective this summer. (HKU's language of instruction is English.) Chad Hansen, a leading scholar of Chinese philosophy, had recently retired from HKU.
I am particularly sad to report that the distinguished legal philosopher and scholar Neil MacCormick, who was Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh for many years, died today. He was also a leading figure in Scottish politics, representing Scotland for a number of years in the European Parliament. Sir Neil taught part-time at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1990s, and was a treasure as a person and a colleague.
There is some information about his career here and here. I will post links to memorial notices as they appear.
UPDATE: A short BBC obituary is here.
ANOTHER from the Scottish National Party.
AND ONE MORE from the University of Edinburgh Law School.
AN OBITUARY from The Telegraph .
Vincent Hendricks, currently Professor of Formal Philosophy at Roskilde University in Denmark, will become Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, effective August 1, 2009.
Marilyn Friedman (moral and political philosophy, feminist philosophy) and Larry May (moral, political, and legal philosophy) at Washington University, St. Louis have accepted senior offers from the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.
Tad Schmaltz (early modern philosophy) at Duke University (who is also the current editor of Journal of the History of Philosophy) has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he will start in fall 2010. This is obviously an important development for students interested in history of modern philosophy presently considering either Michigan or Duke.
They are finally appearing, and I have added links to some in the original notice.
Kieran Setiya (ethics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, has turned down a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Pittsburgh has recently warded off several attempted raids on its "value theory" faculty: Stephen Engstrom (Kant, ethics) and Michael Thompson (ethics, political philosophy, action theory) were retained in the face of offers from the University of Chicago.
Anthony Gillies (philosophy of language, formal semantics, epistemology, philosophical logic, decision/game theory) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University at New Brunswick.
David Chalmers (philosophy of mind and language) at the Australian National University has accepted a half-time post at New York University, where he will teach each fall for the next three years; the rest of the year, he will be at the ANU (because of the differing academic calendars, this is tantamount to a regular post at the ANU). Chalmers has also declined the senior offers from Princeton and Rutgers, and still has a full-time offer outstanding from NYU.
I usually don't cover junior lateral hires, except in unusual cases (like Knobe), but a lot of folks have e-mailed me about these folks, so they are probably in the same category ("unusually high-profile junior philosophers likely to get tenure soon" or something like that), and should be flagged for prospective students: David Manley (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and mind), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; and Seth Yalcin (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, formal epistemology), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the University of California at Berkeley. Manley is a Rutgers PhD, Yalcin an MIT PhD.
Updates in the original post here.
Professor Grene, who wrote widely on the history and philosophy of biology, epistemology, existentialism, and the history of philosophy, passed away yesterday. The entry for Professor Grene on Wikipedia has some information and lists her publications. One may also get some sense for the breadth of her interests and works from the Library of Living Philosophers volume devoted to her in 2002. I will post additional links to memorial notices as they appear.
UPDATE: A memorial notice from the Virginia Tech Department.
ANOTHER memorial, from the UC Davis Department. And an obituary from the LA Times.
ONE MORE from the NY Times.
Brian Barry, a leading political philosopher, died earlier today. He was an Emeritus Professor at both Columbia University and the London School of Economics. I will post links to memorial notices as they appear.
UPDATE: An evocative remembrance from Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin).
ANOTHER: An obituary has finally appeared. (Thanks to Matthew Kramer for the pointer.)
AND ANOTHER from The Guardian.
Julian Wuerth (Kant, early modern philosophy, ethics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, where he will start this fall.
Tad Schmaltz (early modern philosophy) at Duke University has a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Students interested in this area weighing Michigan and Duke will want to keep an eye on what happens.
Michele Moody-Adams (moral and political philosophy) at Cornell University has accepted appointment as Dean of Columbia College at Columbia University. It's not clear from this announcement how much she will be involved with philosophy teaching in her new role at Columbia.
Daniel Jacobson (ethics, metaethics, aesthetics), Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, has turned down the senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego. That's a major retention coup for Bowling Green!
Marilyn Adams (medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion) and Robert Adams (metaphysics, ethics, early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion), both leading figures in their fields at Oxford University (and previously at Yale, UCLA, and Michigan), have accepted senior offers from the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill starting this fall.
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Nathan Salmon (philosophy of language, metaphysics) will be a Visiting Professor teaching at the City University of New York Graduate Center each fall for the next three years.
UPDATE: CUNY was the source of my original information, but I have since heard from Professor Salmon who reports that he will be at CUNY for just seven weeks, doing a compressed seminar (one that meets twice per week); he will thus be at UC Santa Barbara from mid-October through the rest of the academic year. In the categorizations we have ordinarily used in the PGR, this would make him something like quarter-time at CUNY for the next three years.
Daniel Jacobson (ethics, metaethics, aesthetics) at Bowling Green State University has a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego. Students thinking about UCSD or Bowling Green will want to keep an eye on what happens here. (Jacobson, by the way, is writing the volume on Mill in the Routledge Philosophers series, building on a series of important articles on Mill he has written over the past decade or so. I am sure this will be a volume of great interest to scholars and to students.)
Angela Smith (ethics, moral psychology, ancient philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington at Seattle, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Washington & Lee University.
Tim Crane (philosophy of mind, metaphysics), who has taught at University College London since 1990 and where he is currently Head of Department, has accepted the Knightbridge Professorship at Cambridge University, effective this fall.
The Toronto press release is here. Professor Misak has also been a longtime member of the Advisory Board of the PGR, and provided invaluable input on many occasions. I'm sure she will be an outstanding Provost.
An obituary is here. As the obituary makes clear, Professor Naess may well have been the first experimental philosopher! He was, of course, well-known among philosophers as founder of the journal Inquiry, but better-known to the general public for his articulation of the view known as "deep ecology."
(Thanks to Bill Edmundson for the pointer.)
MOVING TO FRON FROM DECEMBER 24: KNOBE HAS ACCEPTED THE OFFER
The Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Program at Yale University have made a tenure-track offer to Joshua Knobe, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has already established himself as a leading figure in 'experimental philosophy.' I don't ordinarily report lateral tenure-track offers, but Knobe is a special case, and seems certain to be tenured before long wherever he is. Students interested in experimental philosophy, as well as cognitive science more generally, will want to keep an eye on this.
There is a memorial notice on the Duke Philosophy Department's homepage.
UPDATE: A nice remembrance of Professor Mahoney from a former student, Richard Garnett, who is now a law professor at Notre Dame.
Justyna Grudzinska (Warsaw University) writes:
Andrzej Zabludowski died on November 11th. At the time of his death he was affiliated with Warsaw University. He left Poland in 1968, driven out by the communist regime's repressiveness and anti-Semitism, emigrated to the U.S. and was affiliated with different American universities. He came back to Poland in 1997. [He was] noted for his work on the theory of induction and Quine's doctrine of the indeterminacy of translation, [and perhaps] best-known for his polemics with Nelson Goodman.
Fraser MacBride (metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, history of analytic philosophy), Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, has accepted a permanent post at Cambridge University, to commence in October 2009.
The link is here, for those who might be interested.
Thaddeus Metz (ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law), Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, has accepted appointment as Humanities Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg. (Metz was both the youngest professor and the only philosopher to get the highest rating by the National Research Foundation in South Africa earlier this year.)
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Ben Morison, a leading young scholar of ancient philosophy at Oxford University, has accepted a tenured appointment at Princeton University, starting next year. Morison will join Hendrik Lorenz (recently tenured), Alexander Nehamas, John Cooper (who is reported to be thinking of retiring), and Christian Wildberg (in Classics) to sustain Princeton's leading position as a center of studies in ancient philosophy in both North America and the Anglophone world.
The situation for students interested in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy has changed a good bit in the last ten years. The top departments have always had multiple scholars working in the area. At this point, this would mean the top choices are, besides Princeton, University of Chicago (Agnes Callard, Michael Forster, Gabriel Richardson Lear, Jonathan Lear, Martha Nussbaum), University of Toronto (Rachel Barney, Lloyd Gerson, Brad Inwood, Mohan Matthen, Jennifer Whiting), and perhaps Yale University (Susanne Bobzien, Verity Harte, Barbara Sattler) and University of Texas at Austin (R.J. Hankinson, Stephen White, A.P.D. Mourelatos [though he has been on unpaid leave a fair bit and may be phasing into retirement--he is in his early 70s], and Paul Woodruff [though he is now Dean of the Undergraduate College]). Chicago students also benefit from an inter-university consortium with the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago (Constance Meinwald), and Northwestern University (David Ebrey, Richard Kraut).
Other major departments with a strong commitment in the field would include Cornell University (Tad Brennan, Charles Brittain in Classics, and Gail Fine, though she has a good deal of leave currently, which she spends in Oxford, where her partner, Terence Irwin, is now the Professor of Ancient Philosophy), Rutgers University at New Brunswick (Robert Bolton, Alan Code), University of Arizona (Julia Annas, Rachana Kamtekar), Columbia University (Wolfgang Mann, Katja Vogt), University of Pittsburgh (James Allen, James Lennox), University of California at Los Angeles (Sean Kesley, Gavin Lawrence), and Stanford University (Christopher Bobonich, Reviel Netz in Classics). One school to watch in this regard is New York University, which has one ancient scholar on tenure-track (Matt Evans) and Philip Mitsis in Classics, as well as a senior offer out for a scholar of ancient philosophy (and additional faculty joining in Classics).
UPDATE: The point of the preceding was to talk ONLY about the situation for study of ancient philosophy in North America--sorry that wasn't as clear in what I wrote as it was in my own mind! Oxford probably still dominates the field for those looking outside North America, and many other U.K. programs are very attractive: Cambridge of course, as well as King's College, London and St. Andrews/Stirling, among others. In any case, we shall have a new set of surveys on this issue shortly.
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