Southern California Making Bid for King and Soames

University of Southern California is making offers to Jeff King (philosophy of language) at the University of California at Davis and Scott Soames (philosophy of language) at Princeton University. (Texas has also made an offer to Soames.) If these offers are accepted--and with James Higginbotham already at USC--this would make Southern California one of the top handful of programs in philosophy of language in the United States (perhaps even the top program, especially for the intersection between philosophy of language and linguistics--a lot may depend on whether Jason Stanley remains at Michigan). This information may be coming too late for students making decisions about where to apply, but hopefully acceptances or rejections will be clear by the time decisions about admissions offers have to be made.