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.
*Colin Allen (philosophy of mind, cognitive science, & biology) from the University of Pittsburgh to the University of California, Santa Barbara.
*Richard J. Arneson (political philosophy) is retiring from the University of California, San Diego at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
*Zach Barnett (ethics, epistemology) from the National University of Singapore to the University of Notre Dame (untenured lateral).
*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.
*Juliana Bidadanure (political philosophy) from Stanford University to New York University.
*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).
*Brookes Brown (social & political philosophy) from Clemson University to the University of Toronto (untenured lateral).
*Justin Bruner (social & political philosophy, PPE) from University of Arizona (Political Economy & Moral Sciences) to the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
*Mark Buldofson (environmental ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy, ethics) from Rutgers University, New Brunswick (School of Public Health) to the University of Texas, Austin (joint with Geography).
*John Carriero (early modern philosophy) retired from the University of California, Los Angeles at the end of the 2022-23 academic year. (He will, however, be teaching one course per year at the University of California, Berkeley for the foreseeable future, and is available to serve on dissertation committees there.)
*Lu Chen (philosophy of mathematics & physics, metaphysics, philosophical logic) from Koç University (Turkey) to the University of Southern California (effective January 2024) (untenured lateral).
*Alix Cohen (Kant) from the University of Edinburgh to the University of Notre Dame.
*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).
*Stephen Daniel (early modern philosophy) is retiring from Texas A&M University in June 2023.
*Stewart Duncan (early modern philosophy) from the University of Florida, Gainesville to the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
*Kenny Easwaran (formal epistemology, epistemology, logic, philosophy of mathematics) from Texas A&M University to the University of California, Irvine.
*William Edmundson (political, legal, & moral philosophy) retired from Georgia State University in December 2022.
*Edward Elliott (philosophy of mind, decision theory) from the University of Leeds to the University of Notre Dame (effective fall 2024).
*David Enoch (moral, political & legal philosophy) from Hebrew University, Jerusalem to Oxford University.
*Patricio Fernandez (ancient philosophy, ethics) from the University of California, Santa Barbara to the University of Texas, Austin.
*Salvatore Florio (philosophy of language & mathematics, philosophical logic) from the University of Birmingham to the University of Oslo.
*Chris Fraser (Chinese philosophy) from the University of Toronto to the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
*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.
*Paul Giladi (critical theory, German Idealism, social epistemology, metaphysics) from Manchester Metropolitan University to SOAS University of London.
*Robert Gooding-Williams (social-political philosophy, philosophy of race, 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy) from Columbia University to Yale University (effective July 2024).
*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 is emeritus as of July 2023).
*Thimo Heisenberg (19th-century German philosophy, social & political philosophy) from Bryn Mawr College to Rice University (untenured lateral).
*Robert Howell (philosophy of mind, metaphysics) from Southern Methodist University to Rice University.
*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.)
*Jessica Isserow (metaethics, ethics, moral psychology) from the University of Leeds to the University of Notre Dame (effective fall 2024).
*Susan James (early modern philosophy, feminist philosophy) will retire from Birkbeck College, University of London in July 2023.
*Zoe Jenkin (epistemology, philosophy of mind & cognitive science) from Washington University, St. Louis to Rutgers University, New Brunswick (untenured lateral).
*Hrishikesh Joshi (moral & political philospohy, metaethics, PPE) from Bowling Green State University to the University of Arizona (untenured lateral).
*Hannah Kim (aesthetics, metaphysics, Asian philosophy, existentialism) from Macalaster College to the University of Arizona (untenured lateral).
*Simon Kirchin (ethics, metaethics) from the University of Kent to the University of Leeds (effective January 2024).
*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.
*Charles Larmore (political philosophy, ethics) will retire from Brown University at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
*N.G. Laskowski (ethics, metaethics, social philosophy) from California State University, Long Beach to the University of Maryland, College Park (untenured lateral).
*Harvey Lederman (logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, Chinese philosophy) from Princeton University to the University of Texas, Austin (effective January 2023).
*Corey Maley (philosophy of computation, cognitive science & neuroscience) from the University of Kansas to Purdue University.
*Mohan Matthen (philosophy of mind & cognitive science, philosophy of biology, ancient philosophy) is retiring at the University of Toronto on July 1, 2023.
*Jake McNulty (19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy) from University College London to Yale University (untenured lateral) (effective January 2024).
*Jozef Mueller (ancient philosophy) from the University of California, Riverside to the University of Hamburg.
*Yujin Nagasawa (philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind) from the University of Birmingham to the University of Oklahoma, Norman (effective January 2024).
*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.
*Alexandra Oprea (political philosophy, PPE) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Political Science) to the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (untenured lateral).
*Thomas Pendlebury (Kant, German Idealism, early modern philosophy) from the University of Pittsburgh to the University of Chicago (untenured lateral).
*Milo Philips-Brown (philosophy of mind, language & technology; applied ethics) from Oxford University to the University of Edinburgh.
*Jake Quilty-Dunn (philosophy of mind & cognitive science) from Washington University, St. Louis to Rutgers University, New Brunswick (untenured lateral).
*Donald H. Regan (ethics, legal philosophy) retired from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor at the end of May 2023.
*Thomas Ricketts (history of analytic philosophy) is retiring from the University of Pittsburgh at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
*Sarah Robins (philosophy of mind & cognitive science) from the University of Kansas to Purdue University.
*Adina Roskies (philosophy of mind & cognitive science) from Dartmouth College to the University of California, Santa Barbara (effective January 2024).
*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.
*Kevin Scharp (philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy of artificial intelligence, ethics) from the University of Twente to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
*David Schmidtz (political philosophy) from the University of Arizona to West Virginia University (College of Business and Economics).
*John Schwenkler (philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, ethics & moral psychology [philosophical and empirical]) from Florida State University to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
*Noa Shein (early modern philosophy) from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to the Heebrew University of Jerusalem.
*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.
*Alison Springle (philosophy of mind, action, and science; epistemology) from the University of Oklahoma, Norman to the University of Miami (untenured lateral).
*Daniel Stephens (Chinese and comparative philosophy, moral philosophy) from Duke Kunshun University to the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
*Timothy Stoll (19th-century German philosophy [esp. Nietzsche, Schopenhauer], aesthetics) from Birkbeck College, University of London to the University of Warwick (equivalent of untenured lateral).
*Paul Taylor (aesthetics, philosophy of race, social-political philosophy) from Vanderbilt University to the University of California, Los Angeles.
*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).
*Alastair Wilson (philosophy of science & physics, metaphysics) from the University of Birmingham to the University of Leeds.
*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).
*Vida Yao (ethics, moral psychology) from Rice University to the University of California, Los Angeles.
*Claudia Yau (ancient philosophy) from the University of Houston to Northwestern University (untenured lateral)
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; Brown to remain in the top 25; Arizona and Wisconsin to remain solidly in the top 30 (and possibly the top 25); UC Santa Barbara to move into the top 35; and BU to still remain in the top 50.
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