Rutgers's Hawthorne Accepts Waynflete Chair at Oxford

John Hawthorne (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and mind, Leibniz) at Rutgers University at New Brunswick has accepted the offer of the Waynflete Chair in Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University.  He may still maintain some kind of visiting relationship with Rutgers, though that has not yet been formalized.

This concludes a rather remarkable "recovery" for Oxford which, for a time in the 1990s, often found its Chairs empty or filled only for short periods with faculty near retirement.  Now the Waynflete Chair and the Wykeham Chair in Logic (held by Timothy Williamson) are staffed by philosophers in their 40s; Martin Davies, in his 50s, is returning from the ANU to take up the Wilde Chair in Mental Philosophy; and John Broome, also in his 50s, holds the White's Chair of Moral Philosophy.  The only vacant Chair on the philosophy faculty right now is the Chair in Ancient Philosophy, from which Michael Frede has recently retired.