10/19 UPDATE: I'm moving this to the front, since various corrections/additions have been made in some of the entries (Harvard, Columbia, Pittsburgh, among others).
==============
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.
It is a reasonable supposition that senior appointments (listed as “hires”) will affect the specialty rankings in most of the cases noted below. (“Junior hires” means a tenure-track assistant professor, or equivalent.) If you are interested in Brian Leiter’s own editorial comments on these developments, please see the next posting.
This information will also be added to the Update Service of the PGR
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Hired Don Garrett (early modern) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Beatrice Longuenesse (Kant, Continental philosophy) from Princeton University. The Law School at NYU hired Stephen Perry (legal and political philosophy) from the University of Pennsylvania; Perry is an “affiliated faculty” member in philosophy (as are Ronald Dworkin and Liam Murphy from the Law School). The School of Education hired Dale Jamieson (environmental ethics) from Carleton College; Jamieson is an “affiliated faculty” member in philosophy as well. Also one junior hire: Elizabeth Harman [PhD, MIT] (ethics). Jerry Fodor (Rutgers) and Sydney Shoemaker (emeritus, Cornell) are teaching one seminar per year at NYU for the next three years. Lost Gordon Belot (philosophy of physics) to the University of Pittsburgh; Frances Myrna Kamm (ethics) to Harvard University; and Cian Dorr (metaphysics), a junior faculty member, to Pittsburgh as well.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Hired Michael Smith (ethics, metaethics) from the Australian National University (starting in 2004). Lost Beatrice Longuenesse (Kant, Continental philosophy) to New York University.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK
Hired Jefferson McMahan (ethics, applied ethics) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR
Lost a junior faculty member, Thomas Hofweber, to North Carolina (see below).
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Hired Gordon Belot (philosophy of physics) from NYU. Also two junior hires: Cian Dorr [PhD, Princeton] (metaphysics) and Jessica Moss [PhD, Princeton] (ancient philosophy); Dorr was previously tenure-track at NYU. Lost junior faculty member Andrea Westlund (ethics, feminist phil) to the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Robert Clifton (philosophy of physics) and Heda Segvic (ancient philosophy) passed away.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Hired Elliott Sober (philosophy of science and biology) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Note: Sober technically on leave from Wisconsin, so might still return.)
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
One junior hire: Jeff Helzner [PhD, Carnegie-Mellon] (logic). Lost Isaac Levi (decision theory, epistemology, philosophy of science) to retirement.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Hired Frances Myrna Kamm (ethics, applied ethics) (joint with the Kennedy School of Government). Also three junior hires: Anthony Gillies [PhD, Arizona] (epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of language); Peter Koellner [PhD, MIT] (logic); Niko Kolodny [PhD, Berkeley] (ethics). (Gillies was tenure-track at Texas/Austin previously.) Harvard has made an offer to Ned Block (philosophy of mind) from New York University, while Michael Martin (philosophy of mind, metaphysics) is visiting Harvard from University College London. Beatrice Longuenesse (Kant/Continental), formerly at Princeton (now NYU), and Frederick Neuhouser (Continental) at Barnard College/Columbia University, both rebuffed recruitment efforts from Harvard in the last year, so students should stay alert for the possibility of additional offers in these areas. Charles Parsons (b. 1933) (Kant, philosophy of mathematics) has announced his intention to retire at the end of this academic year. Harvard lost one junior faculty member, Melissa Barry (ethics), who took a job at Williams College.
MASSACHUSSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Junior hire: Caspar Hare [PhD, Princeton] (ethics). Lost a junior faculty member, Michael Glanzberg (philosophical logic), to the University of Toronto. Judith Jarvis Thomson’s phased retirement comes to an end in January 2004 (at which point she retires).
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Cross-appointed Brian Copenhaver (Renaissance philosophy) from the History Department (Copenhaver also has administrative duties, so students may want to check on his availability for graduate supervision). Two junior hires: Sheldon Smith [PhD, Ohio State] and Christopher Smeenk [PhD, Pittsburgh] (both philosophy of science and physics). Tenure-track offer (joint with Law School) to junior faculty member Mark Greenberg [DPhil, Oxford] (philosophy of mind, philosophy of law) at Princeton.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL
Hired Marc Lange (philosophy of science, philosophy of physics) from the University of Washington, Seattle. Also two tenure-track hires (of faculty who were tenure-track elsewhere): Thomas Hofweber [PhD, Stanford] (philosophy of language and logic) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Ram Neta [PhD, Pittsburgh] (epistemology, philosophy of mind) from the University of Utah. Lost Don Garrett (early modern) to NYU.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Hired Alva Noe (philosophy of mind, cognitive science) from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Also one junior hire: Branden Fitelson [PhD, Wisconsin] (philosophy of science, decision theory); Fitelson was previously tenure-track at San Jose State University. Lost Kwong-Loi Shun (Chinese philosophy) to the University of Toronto (come January), and Richard Wollheim (philosophy of art, philosophy of mind, Freud) to retirement. In addition, Donald Davidson (philosophy of language and mind) and Bernard Williams (ethics), a part-time faculty member, passed away during the summer. Barry Stroud (metaphysics, epistemology) turns 70 in 2005.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
Hired Robert Audi (epistemology, ethics, philosophy of action, philosophy of religion) (joint with Business School) from Nebraska. Also junior hire: Katherine Brading [DPhil, Oxford] (philosophy of physics). Trying to recruit Stewart Shapiro (philosophy of mathematics, logic) from Ohio State University.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
Hired John Deigh (ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of law) (joint with Law School) from Northwestern University. Also cross-appointed Leslie Green (legal and political philosophy), who had been half-time just in the law school. Lost part-time faculty member Richard Sorabji (ancient), who moved his quarter-time appointment to the CUNY Graduate Center (though he remains as an adjunct at Texas, but is no longer teaching a seminar). Also lost a junior faculty member, Gillies, to Harvard (see above).
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Junior hire: Nomy Arpaly [PhD, Stanford] (ethics), previously tenure-track at Rice University. James van Cleve (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, Kant, early modern) has an offer from University of Southern California, which might involve being part-time at USC and part-time at Brown. Jaegwon Kim (metaphysics, philosophy of mind) turns 70 in 2004.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Hired Tamar Gendler (epistemology, philosophy of psychology, metaphysics) from Syracuse University. Also junior hire: Andrew Chignell [PhD, Yale] (Kant, early modern).
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Two junior hires, both in ancient philosophy: Jonathan Beere and Gabriel Richardson [both PhD, Princeton]. Richardson was previously an assistant professor at Yale.
YALE UNIVERSITY
Losing Marilyn Adams (medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion) to the Regius Chair of Divinity at Oxford and Robert Adams (metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, early modern philosophy) will retire at the end of 2003-04. Also lost two junior faculty members, both in ancient philosophy: Gabriel Richardson, to the University of Chicago and Tad Brennan to a tenured post at Northwestern University.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Clark Glymour (philosophy of science, aritificial intelligence) is no longer part-time at UCSD, but remains full-time at Carnegie-Mellon University (and as an adjunct at Pittsburgh’s HPS program).
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
One junior hire: Sukjae Lee [PhD, Yale] (early modern).
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON
Appear to have lost Elliott Sober (philosophy of biology, philosophy of science) to Stanford (see above). Two junior hires: Juan Comesana [PhD, Brown] (epistemology) and Carolina Sartorio [PhD, MIT] (metaphysics, ethics).
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Hired Henry Allison (Kant) to a part-time appointment from Boston University, effective fall 2004.
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK GRADUATE CENTER
Three senior hires: Saul Kripke (emeritus, Princeton) will be full-time; Galen Strawson (philosophy of mind and action, Hume), starting fall 2004, will be half-time at CUNY and half-time at the University of Reading in the UK, at least initially (he is technically full-time at CUNY, on leave one semester per year initially); and Richard Sorabji (ancient philosophy) will be quarter-time (moving from Texas). Richard Sorabji turns 70 in 2004.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON
One junior hire: Kevin Toh [PhD, Michigan] (ethics, philosophy of law). THe HPS program will be losing Michael Dickson (philosophy of physics) to the University of South Carolina in 2004.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Lost Stephen Perry (legal and political philosophy) to NYU and Thomas Ricketts (history of analytic philosophy) to Northwestern University. Two junior hires: K-C. Tan [PhD, Toronto] (political philosophy) and Michael Weisberg [PhD, Stanford] (philosophy of science, philosophy of biology). Senior offer still outstanding to Cristina Bicchieri (decision, game and rational choice theory) at Carnegie-Mellon University.
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Hired Fred Dretske (emeritus, Stanford) (philosophy of mind, epistemology) to a part-time position. Lost Brian Cantwell Smith (philosophy of mind) to the University of Toronto.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER
Lost Stephen Leeds (philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology) to the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and James Nickel (political and legal philosophy) to the Arizona State University College of Law.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Hired Kenneth Baynes (political philosophy, Critical Theory, German philosophy) from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Edward McClennen (rational choice theory, political philosophy) from the London School of Economics. Also junior hire: Benjamin Bradley [PhD, U Mass/Amherst] (ethics). Lost Tamar Gendler, as above, to Cornell; and junior faculty member Daniel Nolan (metaphysics) to the University of St. Andrews. Lynne McFall (ethics) has retired (that was not reflected in last year’s survey).
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Senior offer still outstanding to Jonathan Dancy (ethics) at the University of Reading. Lost junior faculty member Susan Hahn (Continental) to Kenyon College. Peter Achinstein (philosophy of science) turns 70 in 2005.
RICE UNIVERSITY
Lost one junior faculty member: Nomy Arpaly (ethics) to Brown University.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, TWIN CITIES
Junior hire: Peter Hanks [PhD, Berkeley] (philosophy of language).
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE
Lost Marc Lange (philosophy of science) to North Carolina (see above). Two junior hires: Sara Goering [PhD, Colorado] (applied ethics) and Adam Moore [PhD, Ohio State] (moral, political, and legal philosophy) (joint with the Information Sciences School); Goering was previously tenure-track at California State University at Long Beach.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Hired Tad Brennan (ancient philosophy) from Yale University and Thomas Ricketts (history of analytic philosophy) from the University of Pennsylvania.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
Junior hire: Michael Rescorla [PhD, Harvard] (philosophy of language and mind).
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY
Junior hire: Linda Palmer [PhD, UC Irvine] (Kant).
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Hired Loren Lomasky (political philosophy) from Bowling Green State University.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Lost Jefferson McMahan (ethics, applied ethics) to Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Hired Richard Dees (political philosophy), joint with the medical school, from St. Louis University.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
The Law School at USC hired (part-time) Andrei Marmor (legal and political philosophy), who will also have an appointment in philosophy. Senior offer (full or part-time) still outstanding to James van Cleve (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, Kant, early modern) at Brown University.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
P.J. Ivanhoe (Chinese philosophy), formerly at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, is the Findlay Visiting Professor at BU for this academic year; students interested in Chinese philosophy should be alert to the possibility this will become a permanent appointment.
TULANE UNIVERSITY
Lost junior faculty member Paul Lodge (early modern) to Oxford University.
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Hired David McNaughton (ethics, meteaethics) from the University of Keele in the UK. Two junior hires: Zachary Ernst [PhD, Wisconsin] (philosophy of biology, logic) and John Roberts [PhD, North Carolina] (early modern).
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, GAINESVILLE
Hired David Copp (ethics, metaethics) and Marina Oshana (ethics), both from Bowling Green State University.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Hired David Cunning [PhD, UC Irvine] (early modern) from a tenure-track position at Northern Illinois University.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA
Hired Peter Vallentyne (political philosophy) from Virginia Commonwealth University. Junior hire: Brian Kierland [PhD, Princeton] (ethics, philosophy of mind).
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS
Hired Jose Bermudez (philosophy of mind) from the University of Stirling and Dennis Des Chene (early modern) from Emory University.
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
Hired John Stuhr (American pragmatism, social philosophy) from Pennsylvania State University.
OUTSIDE THE US (I fear this will be less complete)
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
Hired Dorothy Edgington (metaphysics, philosophical logic) to the Waynflete Chair from Birkbeck College, University of London. (Note, however, that because of the mandatory retirement rules in the UK, Edgington will only hold the Chair for a few years.) Also hired Paul Lodge [PhD, Rutgers] (early modern) from Tulane University.
UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS
Hired Daniel Nolan (metaphysics) from Syracuse University.
UNIVERSITY OF READING
Galen Strawson (philosophy of action and mind, Hume) will be half-time at CUNY (see above).
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Lost Edward McClennen to Syracuse (see above).
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Hired John Divers from the University of Leeds; Eric Olson from Cambridge University; and Dominic Gregory. All three work in and around metaphysics. In addition, Sheffield hired James Lenman (ethics, metaethics) from the University of Glasgow.
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Hired Alexander Bird (philosophy of science) from the University of Edinburgh and Samir Okasha (philosophy of science) from University of York. Also two junior hires: Finn Spicer (epistemology, philosophy of mind) and Alison Hills (ethics). Lost Keith Graham (political philosophy) and Andrew Harrison (aesthetics) to retirement.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Four tenured hires: Michael Glanzberg (philosophical logic) from a junior position at MIT; Philip Kremer (logic) from McMaster University; Kwong-Loi Shun (Chinese philosophy) from the University of California, Berkeley; and Brian Cantwell Smith (philosophy of mind) from Duke University. Both Shun and Smith will also have administrative appointments and duties.
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Hired John Beatty (history and philosophy of biology) from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Junior hire: Scott Anderson [PhD, Chicago] (moral and political philosophy).
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
Junior hire: Erin Eaker [PhD, UCLA] (philosophy of language).
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Two junior hires: Gaelle Fiasse (PhD, Louvain) (ancient philosophy, ethics) and Jeff Speaks (PhD, Princeton) (philosophy of mind and language, history of analytic philosophy). Lost junior faculty member Rachel Brown (ethics), who left academia.
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Losing Michael Smith (ethics, metaethics) to Princeton University in 2004.
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
Hired Phil Dowe (metaphysics, philosophy of science) from the University of Tasmania.
Recent Comments