Parfit Accepts Part-Time Post at Rutgers

Oxford's Derek Parfit, one of the world's leading moral philosophers, has accepted a part-time appointment at Rutgers University at New Brunswick. On each visit, he will be at Rutgers for 7 weeks, starting in fall 2005, continuing in spring 2007, and then every other year after that. The initial period of the commitment is for 8 years, during which time he will teach 5 graduate seminars. It is not yet clear whether this will impact Parfit's quarter-time arrangements with Harvard and NYU. This is the latest in a series of appointment Rutgers has made to strength its coverage in value theory; others include the full-time appointments of Larry Temkin from Rice and Jeff McMahan from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as the part-time appointment of James Griffin, who is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy Emeritus from Oxford.