Quassim Cassam (metaphysics, epistemology, Kant, philosophy of mind), who not long ago took up the Knightbridge Professorship at Cambridge, has now accepted a Professorship at the University of Warwick, effective January 1, 2009.
Warwick has been on an aggressive hiring spree over the last several years, adding, among others, Bill Brewer from Oxford, A.D. Smith from Sussex, and Andrew Williams from Reading. With continued excellence in Continental philosophy (Stephen Houlgate, Peter Poellner, and others--and now supplemented by Smith, who works on Husserl in addition to philosophy of mind), the new addition of Cassam on top of these other strong appointments will surely push Warwick into the top ranks of PhD programs in the UK.
The Cambridge Department, meanwhile, is facing some difficulties, with Simon Blackburn and Raymond Geuss approaching the mandatory retirement age in the next few years (and Blackburn also spending part of his time back at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and now Cassam departing after such a short tenure.
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