Two Senior Losses for LSE: Hartmann to Tilburg, Howson to Toronto

Stephan Hartmann (philosophy of science and physics, formal epistemology, social choice theory) and Colin Howson (philosophy of science, logic), both professors at the London School of Economics, have accepted senior positions elsewhere:  Hartmann will go to Tilburg University in the Netherlands, where he will also serve as Director of a  new Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, and Howson will join the University of Toronto in 2008.  (Hartmann, as noted earlier, also had an offer from UC Davis, which he declined.)  Those are big losses for the small LSE Department; neither were reflected in the just-completed PGR surveys.