Two philosophers are among the recipients of the lucrative Humboldt Professorships in the latest competition. The terms of the Professorship and the award are described in detail here, and they are quite extraordinary, including millions of euros of research support.
Michael Forster, one of the three or four leading scholars of 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy in the Anglophone world (who has also done major work on Wittgenstein and on ancient philosophy), and who is currently Glenn A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy here at the University of Chicago, has been awarded a Humboldt Professsorship to be located at the University of Bonn. This would, alas, be a huge loss for Chicago, though I'm hopeful that, if he goes, Forster will find ways to retain ties with the university here.
Stephan Hartmann, currently at the University of Tilburg (and previously at the LSE), is a leading contributor to work in formal epistemology, philosophy of science and physics, and social choice theory. His Professorship would be taken up at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where Hannes Leitgeb, another leading formal philosopher, is already based.
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