The Chronicle of Higher Ed used to run a feature each fall on "rising stars" focusing on newly hired junior faculty who were deemed the most promising, as evidenced in large part by the offers they accrued from leading departments. I used to suggest to them junior philosophy faculty on whom to focus, some of whom they ran stories on (such as Joshua Knobe at North Carolina, and Carolina Sartorio at Wisconsin), but now that the Chronicle is out of the business as it were, I'll just note briefly the five young philosophers whose talent and promise resulted in the most offers from leading departments this past year; they are:
David Baker (PhD, Princeton), AOS: Philosophy of Physics. He will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Agnes Callard (PhD, Berkeley), AOS: Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Ancient Philosophy. She will be the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Matthew Kotzen (PhD, NYU), AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science. He will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Japa Pallikkathayil (PhD, Harvard), AOS: Moral and Political Philosophy. She will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University.
Seth Yalcin (PhD, MIT), AOS: Philosophy of Language and Mind, Metaphysics. He will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University.
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