This is the annual compilation of major (tenured or equivalent) faculty moves involving PhD or MA programs since the last PGR survey (fall 2004), for the benefit of students using the PGR in choosing graduate schools this academic year.
This list includes only faculty moves that were not reflected in the faculty lists for the Fall 2004 surveys. Remember, those faculty lists were based on expected faculty profile for fall 2005, so included some announced, planned moves.
Many or most of the faculty moves recorded here are likely to affect the specialty rankings for the areas in which these faculty work. Where relevant, I comment on how the moves are likely to affect the overall reputation/ranking of a department.
For tenure-track appointments this past year, see here.
Please e-mail me with corrections and additions.
The departments that have strengthened the tenured faculty most significantly since the fall 2004 PGR are the following (some of these appointments take effect this fall, the remainder by fall 2006):
Brown University: Added Richard Heck (philosophy of language, math, and logic) from Harvard, and Charles Larmore (political philosophy) from Chicago; lost, however, James van Cleve (metaphysics, epistemology, Kant, modern philosophy) to University of Southern California (he had been only half-time at Brown in recent years). Also made junior appointments. I would expect Brown to crack the top 15 overall.
University of Arizona: Added Gerald Gaus (political philosphy) from Tulane, Shaun Nichols (ethics, philosophy of mind, experimental philosophy) from Utah, and Connie Rosati (ethics, philosophy of law) from UC Davis. Keith Lehrer, who is half-time, turns 70 in 2006. I would expect Arizona to crack the top 15 overall.
University of Massachussetts, Amherst: Added a couple in philosophy of mind and cognate fields, Louise Antony and Joseph Levine, from Ohio State University. I would expect U Mass to crack the overall top 25, perhaps the top 20.
University of Southern California: Added James van Cleve (see above) from Brown and George Wilson (philosophy of language, action, and film) from the University of California at Davis. I would expect USC to crack the top 20.
University of Toronto: Added Mohan Matthen (ancient philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology) from the University of British Columbia; Diana Raffman (philosophy of mind, aesthetics) from Ohio State University; Evan Thompson (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) from York University, Toronto; and Byeong Yi (metaphysics, philosophy of language and logic) from Minnesota. Also made two tenure-track lateral appointments: Benjamin Hellie (philosophy of mind) from Cornell, and Jessica Wilson (metaphysics, philosophy of science) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I would expect Toronto to easily crack the U.S. top 15, perhaps the U.S. top 10.
Yale University: Added George Bealer (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language) from Texas and (for fall 2006) Verity Harte (ancient philosophy) from King's College, London; senior offer still outsanding to Kenneth Winkler (early modern philosophy) at Wellesley College. I would expect Yale to crack the overall top 20.
The departments that lost significant ground, in terms of faculty quality, since fall 2004 are:
Northwestern University: Lost Robert Gooding-Williams (African-American philosophy and political thought, Continental philosophy) to the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago; Terry Pinkard (German Idealism) to Georgetown University; Thomas Ricketts (history of analytic philosophy) to the University of Pittsburgh; and Charles Travis (philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, Wittgenstein) to King's College, London. In addition to losing ground in various specialty areas covered by these faculty, the Department will sink even further out of the top 50. Watch for Northwestern to try to do a lot of hiring this academic year.
Ohio State University: Lost Louise Antony (philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy) to U Mass/Amherst; Bob Batterman (philosophy of science & physics) to a Canada Research Chair at Western Ontario; Joseph Levine (philosophy of mind) to U Mass/Amherst; and Diana Raffman (philosophy of mind, aesthetics) to Toronto. I would expect the department to drop out of the overall top 25, and quite possibly, the top 30.
University of British Columbia: Lost Mohan Matthen (philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, ancient philosophy) to Toronto and Catherine Wilson (early modern philosophy, ethics) to the CUNY Graduate Center. I would expect UBC to remain in the Canadian top five, but to slip out of second place.
University of California, Davis: Lost Victor Caston (ancient philosophy) to Michigan; Robert Cummins (philosophy of mind & cognitive science) to Illinois/Urbana; Connie Rosati (ethics, philosophy of law) to Arizona; and George Wilson (philosophy of language, action, and film) to Southern California; also lost one tenure-track faculty member, Josh Parsons (metaphysics) to Otago. Did make one senior appointment: Jonathan Vogel (epistemology) from Amherst. I would expect Davis to drop out of the top 25, perhaps the top 30. Look for Davis to try to do a lot of hiring this year.
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Other changes in senior faculty ranks since fall 2004 (in alphabetical order, by department):
Australian National University: Losing Martin Davies (philosophy of mind) to Oxford University.
Birkbeck College, University of London: Adding Ian Rumfitt (philosophy of language) from Oxford University.
Cambridge University: Added Jeremy Butterfield (philosophy of physics) from Oxford University. Losing Edward Craig (modern philosophy) to retirement and lost Ross Harrison (political philosophy) to the Quain Chair of Jurisprudence on the law faculty at University College London.
City University of New York Graduate Center: Added Catherine Wilson (early modern, ethics) from British Columbia; lost Paul Horwich (philosophy of language, philosophy of science) to New York University. Rohit Parikh (logic) turns 70 in 2006.
Cornell University: Lost Delia Graff and Michael Fara to Princeton (see Princeton entry, below), but added a tenure-track professor Matti Eklund (metaphysics) from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Georgetown University: Added Terry Pinkard (German Idealism) from Northwestern University.
Harvard University: Added Ned Hall (metaphysics, philosophy of science) from MIT; lost Richard Heck to Brown (see above).
Indiana University, Bloomington: Adding Kate Abramson (early modern) and Gary Ebbs (philosophy of language) from Illinois/Urbana.
King's College, London: Added Charles Travis from Northwestern (see above); losing Peter Goldie (philosophy of mind, ethics, aesthetics) to the University of Manchester and Verity Harte (ancient philosophy) to Yale University.
Massachussetts Institute of Technology: Added a tenure-track faculty member, Agustin Rayo (philosophical logic, metaphysics) from the University of California, San Diego. Lost Ned Hall (metaphysics, philosophy of science) to Harvard.
McGill University: Adding Ian Gold (philosophy of mind) from Monash University and Natalie Stoljar (legal and feminist philosophy) from the University of Melbourne; both Gold and Stoljar will be jointly appointed with other units at McGill, in addition to Philosophy.
New York University: Added Paul Horwich (philosophy of language, philosophy of science) from CUNY and James Pryor (epistemology) from Princeton University. Lost affiliated faculty member, from the Law School, Stephen Perry (legal and political philosophy) to the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas Nagel will turn 70 in 2006 and is reported to be no longer supervising new doctoral students.
Oxford University: Added Martin Davies (philosophy of mind) from the Australian National University, Peter Kail (early modern) from the University of Edinburgh, and Peter Millican (early modern) from the University of Leeds. Losing Jeremy Butterfield (philosophy of physics) to Cambridge, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (metaphysics) to Nottingham and Buenos Aires, and Ian Rumfitt (philosophy of language) to Birkbeck College, London; also losing Dorothy Edington (philosophical logic, metaphysics), Michael Frede (ancient philosophy), William Newton-Smith (philosophy of science) and Joseph Raz (philosophy of law, political philosophy, ethics) to retirement.
Princeton University: Added Delia Graff (philosophy of language, philosophical logic, epistemology, metaphysics) from Cornell, as well as her husband, philosopher of language, Michael Fara, at the junior level, also from Cornell. Lost James Pryor (epistemology) to New York University. Hans Halvorson (philosophy of physics) was tenured. Paul Benacerraf (philosophy of math, logic) and Bas van Fraassen (philosophy of science, logic) are both phasing into retirement, and so will not be part of the faculty lists for the fall 2006 PGR surveys. Princeton is trying to recruit Paul Boghossian (philosophy of language and mind) from NYU and Alex Byrne (philosophy of mind, metaphysics) from MIT.
Purdue University: Added Mark Bernstein (applied ethics) from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Daniel Frank (ancient and medieval philosophy, Jewish philosophy) from the University of Kentucky.
Rice University: Lost Eric Margolis (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) to the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick: Losing Colin McGinn (philosophy of language and mind) to the University of Miami.
Stanford University: Offers are still outstanding to Joshua Cohen (political philosophy) at MIT and Brian Skyrms (decision and game theory, philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology) at UC Irvine.
Texas A&M University: Lost Heather Gert (bioethics, philosophy of language) to the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Tufts University: Added Ray Jackendoff (cognitive science) from Brandeis University.
Tulane University: Losing Gerald Gaus (political philosophy) to the University of Arizona.
University of Auckland: Added on a half-time basis Max Cresswell (logic, formal semantics), who will also continue to be half-time at Texas A&M University.
University of Birmingham: Added Helen Beebee (metaphysics) from the University of Manchester and Alex Miller (philosophy of language, metaethics) from Macquarie University. Birmingham now has a chance to break the UK top 15.
University of Bristol: Added Susan Hurley (philosophy of mind and cognitive science, political philosophy) from the University of Warwick and Hannes Leitgeb (logic) from the University of Salzburg. I would expect Bristol to break the UK top 10.
University of California, Irvine: Losing Alan Nelson (early modern philosophy) to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. [Correction: Gary Watson [philosophy of action, ethics] at UC Riverside declined the senior offer from Irvine.]
University of California, San Diego: Lost Wayne Martin (German Idealism, phenomenology) to the University of Essex and tenure-track faculty member Agustin Rayo to MIT (see above).
University of Chicago: Lost Charles Larmore (political philosophy) to Brown. Made one tenure-track, lateral appointment: Kevin Davey (philosophy of physics) from the University of Kansas.
University of Colorado, Boulder: Hired Mitzi Lee (ancient philosophy) from the University of Illinois at Chicago; also made several tenure-track, lateral appointments. Offer outstanding to Alan Carter (environmental philosophy, political philosophy) at the University of Glasgow.
University of Connecticut, Storrs: Ruth Millikan is officially emerita, though is still doing some teaching.
University of Edinburgh: Lost Peter Kail (early modern) to Oxford.
University of Essex: Added Wayne Martin (German Idealism, phenomenology) from the University of California, San Diego.
University of Exeter: Hired Lenny Moss (philosophy of biology) to a Readership from a tenure-track post at the University of Notre Dame.
University of Glasgow: Hired Michael Brady (ethics, epistemology) from the University of Stirling. Lost Bob Hale (philosophy of math and language) to the University of Sheffield. I would expect Glasgow to fall out of the UK top 15.
University of Illinois, Chicago: Lost Mitzi Lee (ancient philosophy) to Colorado.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Added Robert Cummins (philosophy of mind) from UC Davis; losing Kate Abramson (early modern) and Gary Ebbs (philosophy of language) to Indiana/Bloomington. Also made a tenure-track lateral hire, Kirk Sanders (ancient philosophy) from the Classics Department at Rutgers. The College of Law added a legal theorist, Larry Solum, who will be a new affiliated faculty member in Philosophy. James Wallace (ethics) has retired.
University of Leeds: Added Aaron Meskin (aesthetics) from a tenure-track position at Texas Tech University; lost Bryan Frances (epistemology) to Fordham University.
University of Manchester: Added Peter Goldie (philosophy of mind, ethics, aesthetics) from King's College, London; lost Helen Beebee (metaphysics) to the University of Birmingham.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Added Victor Caston (ancient philosophy) from the University of California at Davis. The Law School also appointed Scott Shapiro (legal philosophy), who will have a joint appointment and do some regular teaching in Philosophy.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Lost Byeong Yi to Toronto (see above).
University of Missouri, Columbia: Added Andre Ariew (philosophy of biology) from the University of Rhode Island.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Added Alan Nelson (early modern philosophy) from the University of California, Irvine.
University of Notre Dame: Lost tenure-track faculty member Lenny Moss (philosophy of biology) to a Readership at the University of Exeter. Philip Quinn (philosophy of religion) passed away.
University of Nottingham: Added Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (metaphysics) on a half-time basis from Oxford University (the other half of the time he will be teaching in Buenos Aires).
University of Pennsylvania: The Law School hired Stephen Perry (legal and political philosophy), who is an affiliated member of the Philosophy Department.
University of Pittsburgh: Added Thomas Ricketts (history of analytic philosophy) from Northwestern University, Sebastian Rodl (Kant and German Idealism, philosophy of mind and language) from the University of Leipzig, and Kenneth Schaffner (philosophy of biology, medicine, and psychiatry) from George Washington University.
University of Sheffield: Hired Bob Hale (philosophy of math and language) from the University of Glasgow. I would expect Sheffield to now be competitive as one of the top five U.K. departments.
University of South Florida: Added Alex Levine (philosophy of science) from Lehigh University and Thomas Williams (medieval philosophy) from the University of Iowa.
University of Texas, Austin: Lost George Bealer (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language) to Yale University; Robert Kane (philosophy of action, free will) is now on phased retirement. Edwin Allaire (metaphysics) and Robert Causey (philosophy of science) will have phased into retirement by 2007, and so will not be on the faculty lists for the 2006 surveys (they were listed as on phased retirement for the 2004 surveys). A.P.D. Mourelatos (ancient philosophy) turns 70 in 2006.
University of Washington, Seattle: Added Andrew Light (environmental philosophy) from the Education School at New York University, and Alison Wylie (philosophy of social science, feminist philosophy) from Barnard College/Columbia University. Lost Kenneth Himma (philosophy of law) to Seattle Pacific University.
University of Western Ontario: Added Bob Batterman (philosophy of science and physics) from Ohio State University and Charles Weijer (bioethics) from Dalhousie University.
University of Wisconsin, Madison: Added Eric Margolis (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) from Rice University.
Washington University, St. Louis: Lost Pauline Kleingeld (Kant, political philosophy) to Leiden University in The Netherlands.
York University, Toronto: Lost Evan Thompson (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) to the University of Toronto.
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