Andy Clark (philosophy of mind/cognitive science), currently at Indiana University at Bloomington, has accepted the Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, previously held by Huw Price (who is now back at the University of Sydney) and, before that, by Timothy Williamson (who is now Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford). Clark's spouse/partner Josefa Toribio (philosophy of mind and language), an Associate Professor at Indiana/Bloomington, has also accepted an appointment at Edinburgh. Clark and Toribio have moved a lot in the last decade: from the University of Sussex to Washington University, St. Louis, back to Sussex, then to Indiana, now to Edinburgh. That's certainly a major set of appointments for Edinburgh, and a notable loss for Indiana.
Michael Glanzberg (philosophical logic, philosophy of language), currently at the University of Toronto, has accepted the tenured offer from the University of California at Davis.
Christopher ("Kit") Wellman (political, legal and moral philosophy), currently at Georgia State University, has accepted a tenured offer from Washington University, St. Louis. Wash U is having a busy year, having also added John Heil to the senior ranks and Gillian Russell to the tenure-track ranks. The Department has one other tenured offer outstanding to a moral philosopher as well. With other recent additions of Bermudez from Stirling and Des Chene from Emory, I would expect Wash U to return squarely to the top 50 American PhD programs in next year's survey, and possibly the top 40. (Interesting sidenote: Kit Wellman's father, the political and legal philosopher Carl Wellman, was a longtime member of the philosophy faculty at Wash U as well.)
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