In addition to the separate posts announcing (generally tenured) faculty moves, I will keep a running list of all lateral moves (and retirements and deaths) not reflected in the faculty lists for the last PGR (some moves that took place after the last PGR were reflected in the faculty list, because the editors knew of them). I will start a new list for each academic year, so that the list does not get unwieldy. (The 2022 list is here, with a couple of late additions in bold.) Unless otherwise noted, the appointment (or retirement) takes effect in 2023. I will move this to the front periodically, putting recent additions in bold. Untenured lateral moves will be noted as such, otherwise the move is with tenure. A lateral move is one from one tenure-stream position to another either into or out of a program offering the PhD or terminal MA. In addition I will list retirements and also deaths of non-emeritus faculty. Please e-mail me with additions or corrections.
*Richard L. Arneson (political philosophy) is retiring from the University of California, San Diego at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
*William Bechtel (philosophy of cognitive science and neuroscience) is retiring from the University of California, San Diego at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
*Martha Bolton (early modern philosophy) will retire from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in July 2023.
*Robert Bolton (ancient philosophy) will retire from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in July 2023.
*Pascal Brixel (social & political philosophy, ethics, Marx & Marxism) from Clemson University to Northwestern University (untenured lateral).
*Amber Carpenter (ancient Greek and Indian philosophy) from Yale/National University of Singapore College to Boston University.
*Patrick Connolly (early modern philosophy and science) from Lehigh University (untenured) and University of Wisconsin, Madison (visiting) to Johns Hopkins University (effective January 2023).
*Ann Cudd (feminist philosophy, social & political philosophy) from University of Pittsburgh (where she is Provost) to Portland State University (to become President).
*Rachel Fraser (philosophy of language, epistemology, feminist philosophy) from Oxford University to the Dianoia Institute, Australian Catholic University.
*Stacie Friend (aesthetics, philosophy of language & mind) from Birkbeck College, University of London to the University of Edinburgh.
*Michael Garnett (social & political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of action) from Birkbeck College, University of London to King's College, London.
*Ken Gemes (philosophy of science, Nietzsche, Freud) will retire from Birkbeck College, University of London in July 2023.
*Charles L. Griswold (18th-century philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, ancient philosophy) is retiring from Boston University at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
*Paul Guyer (Kant, aesthetics) is on phased retirement at Brown University (he will retire fully no later than the end of June 2025, and perhaps sooner).
*Thomas Hurka (ethics), who has been on phased retirement at the University of Toronto, is retiring at the end of the 2022-23 academic year. (This information was included in the 2021 PGR surveys, so should, in principle, have been taken into account by evaluators.)
*Susan James (early modern philosophy, feminist philosophy) will retire from Birkbeck College, University of London in July 2023.
*Hannah Kim (aesthetics, metaphysics, Asian philosophy, existentialism) from Macalaster College to the University of Arizona (untenured lateral).
*Claire Kirwin (ethics, metaethics, aesthetics, Nietzsche) from Clemson University to Northwestern University (untenured lateral).
*Katharina Kraus (Kant, philosophy of mind and psychology) from the University of Notre Dame to Johns Hopkins University (effective January 2023).
*Michael Kremer (history of analytic philosophy, logic) will retire from the University of Chicago at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
*Harvey Lederman (logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, Chinese philosophy) from Princeton University to the University of Texas, Austin (effective January 2023).
*Mohan Matthen (philosophy of mind & cognitive science, philosophy of biology, ancient philosophy) is retiring at the University of Toronto on July 1, 2023.
*Jake Nebel (normative ethics) from the University of Southern California to Princeton University (effective January 2023).
*Sven Nyholm (applied ethics, ethics) from Utrecht University to Ludwig Maximilian University Munich.
*Milo Philips-Brown (philosophy of mind, language & technology; applied ethics) from Oxford University to the University of Edinburgh.
*Thomas Ricketts (history of analytic philosophy) is retiring from the University of Pittsburgh at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
*Hannah Rubin (philosophy of biology & science) from the University of Notre Dame (untenured) to the University of Missouri, Columbia (tenured) (effective January 2023).
*Carlos Santana (philosophy of science [esp. biology, cognitive science, linguistics], environmental philosophy) from the University of Utah to the University of Pennsylvania.
*David Schmidtz (political philosophy) from the University of Arizona to West Virginia University (College of Business and Economics).
*Christopher Shields (ancient philosophy) from the University of Notre Dame to the University of California, San Diego (effective January 2023).
*Elliott Sober (philosophy of biology, philosophy of science) is retiring from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in summer 2023.
*Timothy Stoll (19th-century German philosophy [esp. Nietzsche, Schopenhauer], aesthetics) from Birkbeck College, University of London (equivalent of untenured lateral).
*Peter Vallentyne (political philosophy) is retiring from the University of Missouri, Columbia at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
*Porter Williams (philosophy of science and physics) from the University of Southern California to the University of Pittsburgh (untenured lateral) (effective January 2023).
*Paul B. Woodruff (ancient philosophy, ethics) retired from the University of Texas at Austin at the end of 2022.
*Crispin Wright (philosophy of language, math, and logic; epistemology) has concluded his part-time Global Distinguished Professorship at New York University (although he will continue his work at the University of Stirling in the UK).
Obviously a number of these developments (both in 2022 and 2023) would likely alter the 2021 PGR results in a new survey (which won't take place before 2023 or 2024). Many senior moves and retirements will affect a program's standing in the specialty rankings. Overall, students should think of Texas as now squarely in the top 15 in the U.S. (and on the cusp of the top 10), and Johns Hopkins as now squarely in the top 25. I would also expect North Carolina and CUNY, despite significant losses, to remain, respectively, in the top 15 and top 20; Arizona and Wisconsin to remain solidly in the top 30 (and possibly the top 25); and BU to still remain in the top 50.
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