The American Philosophical Society, the nation's oldest learned society (though not as well-known, perhaps, as the American Academy of Arts & Sciences or the National Academy of Sciences), has announced the election of new members.
Philosophers elected are Stanley Cavell (emeritus, Harvard), Allan Gibbard (Michigan), and Richard Rorty (emeritus, Stanford).
Scholars well-known to philosophers also elected this year include Peter Galison (History of Science, Harvard) and Amy Gutmann (President of Penn).
Other philosophers elected to the APS from prior years include Nancy Cartwright (LSE & UC San Diego), Saul Kripke (CUNY & emeritus, Princeton), Hilary Putnam (emeritus, Harvard), and Onora O'Neill (Cambridge).
Only one legal scholar was elected this year: Larry Kramer (now Dean at Stanford). (Given the excruciatingly critical reviews of his book that have appeared just about everywhere, the timing here seems a bit odd.) Other law professors elected to the APS from prior years include Kathleen Sullivan (Stanford, and former Dean), Randall Kennedy (Harvard), Kent Greenawalt (Columbia), Barbara Black (Columbia), Gerhard Casper (Stanford), and Guido Calabresi (emeritus, Yale & federal judge).
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