The Woods from Stanford to Indiana

Allen Wood (Kant, 19th-century German philosophy), Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and Rega Wood (medieval philosophy), Research Professor of Philosophy at Stanford, have accepted senior, tenured offers from the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington.  (They will technically be on leave from Stanford during 2008-09, so there is some prospect they may return.)  This makes Indiana an even stronger choice for students interested in medieval philosophy, and also gives a big boost to Indiana as a place to study 18th- and 19th-century philosophy (Allen Wood will join Kate Abramson, Marcia Baron, and Michael Morgan, among others at Indiana who work on figures in these periods).  This move is also a set-back for Stanford as a place for students interested in Continental philosophy.