James Woodward (philosophy of science), a longtime member of the philosophy faculty at the California Institute of Technology, who may be best-known for his work on causation, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. That's the second major senior hire in the general area by Pitt in recent months.
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