Dowell, Sobel from Nebraska to Syracuse

Janice Dowell (philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics, meta-ethics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and David Sobel (ethics, political philosophy), Chambers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Moral Sciences, also at Nebraska, have accepted senior offers from the Department of Philosophy at Syracuse University, where they will start in fall 2013.  (Sobel will take up the Guttag Professorship in Ethics and Political Philosophy previously held by Michael Stocker, now emeritus at Syracuse.)  Syracuse now has an especially strong cohort of younger philosophers working in and around issues in ethics and meta-ethics.