MOVING TO FRONT FROM SEPTEMBER 25--CORRECTED
Since the 2020-21 PGR has been delayed, this is a summary of changes at the tenured (or almost tenured) ranks at the top 5 PhD programs in Canada since the 2017 Philosophical Gourmet Report; more precisely, these are changes that were not reflected in the faculty lists evaluators saw for the 2017 PGR surveys (some moves that weren't official until 2018 were reflected in the faculty lists for the 2017 surveys). (Please e-mail me any corrections or additions, thanks.) My thanks to Mitchell Barrington for his assistance in compiling this information.
University of Toronto (#1 in Canada, #10 in world in 2017 PGR): Added George Boys-Stones (ancient) from Durham; Michael Caie (philosophical logic, philosophy of language, formal epistemology) and (advanced junior lateral) Jessica Gelber (ancient Greek and Roman philosophy) from the University of Pittsburgh; Chris Fraser (classical Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy) from the University of Hong; Elisa Freschi (advanced junior lateral) from the University of Vienna and Jonardon Ganeri from NYU-Abu Dhabi, both experts in Indian philosophy; and Michael Rosenthal (early modern, Jewish philosophy) from the University of Washington. Lost Charles Brittain (ancient) back to Cornell University. May lose Karolina Hubner (early modern) to Cornell, where she is currently teaching (but it appears she has not resigned yet from Toronto). Will now be the strongest department in North America, and probably the Anglophone world, for students interested in some of the major non-Western philosophical traditions.
University of British Columbia (#2 in Canada, #36 in world in 2017 PGR): hired Kimberly Brownlee (political & legal philosophy) from the University of Warwick. Paul Russell (Hume, free will) is phasing into retirement, which will come in 2022 (he was already listed as half-time in 2017, due to his joint appointment at Lund).
University of Western Ontario (#3 in Canada, not in the top 50 in the world in 2017 PGR): Lost to retirement John Bell (logic, philosophy of mathematics) and John Thorp (ancient philosophy).
McGill University (#4 in Canada, not in the top 50 in the world in 2017 PGR): Lost George di Giovanni (19th-century Continental philosophy, philosophy of religion) to retirement; Gregory Mikkelson (philosophy of science, environmental philosophy), who resigned to protest McGill's investments in fossil fuels; and Sarah Stroud (ethics) to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Will probably still remain #4 in Canada, despite these senior losses.
University of Calgary (#5 in Canada, not in the top 50 in the world in 2017 PGR): Lost Walter Glannon (ethics, applied ethics) to retirement.
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