Michael Blake (political philosophy), currently an Assistant Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (and, before that, on tenure-track in the Philosophy Department at Harvard), has accepted a tenured joint appointment in Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Washington at Seattle, to start in fall 2005.
I must confess to always having been surprised that Washington does not come out higher in the PGR surveys: the Department has two philosophers who are very major figures in their fields (Laurence BonJour in epistemology and Arthur Fine in philosophy of science and physics)--both clearly appointable at numerous top departments--as well as a strong contingent in ancient philosophy, and solid coverage of most other areas, augmented by several recent additions (Michael Rosenthal, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, etc.), and now Blake. I have always thought of UW-Seattle as a top 25 department; perhaps, finally, this year's surveys will confirm that this is more than my idiosyncratic assessment. Or perhaps not. We'll see.
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