American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Sins of Omission Revisited

With the recent elections to the AAAS, the good news is the Academy has, over the last few years, corrected many of the odd omissions noted here in the past.   And yet, still, in surveying the current roster of members, one can not help be struck by the odd omissions, given who is elected.  These would include (off the top of my head) Beatrice Longuenesse and Crispin Wright at NYU; Daniel Garber at Princeton; Stephen Yablo at MIT; Robert Audi at Notre Dame; James Higginbotham and Gary Watson at USC; Alex Mourelatos and Paul Woodruff at Texas; Michael Forster and Jonathan Lear at Chicago; John Martin Fischer at UC Riverside; Frederick Beiser at Syracuse; Arthur Fine at Washington; A. John Simmons at Virginia; Larry Laudan at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.   Several of these omissions, given the age of the philosophers in question and given that their peers have already been elected, are quite extraordinary.   Everyone knows the AAAS is clubby and the 'rich get richer' (and friends of recent electees get elected more than meritorious non-friends, etc.), but still one would hope that at least half of these sins of omission will be rectified in the next couple of years, and the rest thereafter.