The Rich Get Richer: NYU Votes Out More Offers

In addition to the offer voted out to Ted Sider, the Department of Philosophy at New York University has also voted out offers to David Chalmers (philosophy of mind and language) at the Australian National University; Frederick Neuhouser (19th-century German philosophy) at Barnard College and Columbia University; Samuel Scheffler (moral and political philosophy) at the University of California at Berkeley; and Crispin Wright (philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics) at the University of St. Andrews (who is presently a regular part-time visiting professor at NYU).  NYU is alreadly (by a small margin) the top philosophy department in the English-speaking world, but if they were to successfully recruit all five of these philosophers, they would be the top department by a wide margin for the next decade or more (barring fluky events etc.).