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, and the 2023 list is here.) Unless otherwise noted, the appointment (or retirement) takes effect in 2024. 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.
*Luvell Anderson (philosophy of language, philosophy of race, aesthetics) from Syracuse University to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
*Cinzia Arruza (ancient philosophy, feminist philosophy) from The New School to Boston University.
*Sam Baron (metaphysics, philosophy of science) from the Australian Catholic University to the University of Melbourne.
*Amy Berg (ethics, political philosophy) from Oberlin College to Rice University (untenured lateral).
*Anastasia Berg (ethics, Kant) from Hebrew University, Jerusalem to the University of California, Irvine (untenured lateral).
*Sara Bernstein (metaphysics) from the University of Notre Dame to the University of California, Santa Cruz (effective fall 2025).
*Kyle Blumberg (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind) from the Australian Catholic University to the University of Melbourne.
*Gwen Bradford (ethics) from Rice University to the University of Toronto.
*Ray (R.A.) Briggs (epistemology, metaphysics, decision theory, logic) from Stanford University to the University of Chicago.
*Cameron Buckner (philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and AI) from the University of Houston to the University of Florida, Gainesville.
*Daniel Brudney (political philosophy, Marx) at the University of Chicago is entering on a phased retirement, and will be half-time through 2029.
*Jeff Carroll (political philosophy) from Bowling Green State University (Philosophy) to West Virginia University (Business School) (untenured lateral).
*Sam Carter (philosophy of language, epistemology, logic) from Dianoia Institute of Philosophy/Australian Catholic University to University College London.
*Monima Chadha (Indian philosophy) from Monash University to Oxford University.
*David Charles (ancient philosophy) is retiring from Yale University at the end of June 2024.
*Lu Chen (philosophy of mathematics & physics, metaphysics, philosophical logic) from Koç University (Turkey) to the University of Southern California (effective January 2024) (untenured lateral).
*Maudemarie Clark (Nietzsche) will retire from the University of California, Riverside at the end of June 2024.
*Timothy Clarke (ancient philosophy) from the University of California, Berkeley to Yale University.
*Dale Dorsey (ethics, political philosophy) from the University of Kansas to Oxford University (effective fall 2025).
*Edward Elliott (philosophy of mind, decision theory) from the University of Leeds to the University of Notre Dame.
*Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (political philosophy, contemporary European philosophy) from Syracuse University to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (joint with Political Science).
*Jonathan Fine (ancient philosophy) from the University of Hawaii, Manoa to Georgetown University (untenured lateral).
*Samuel Fletcher (philosophy of science, philosophy of physics) from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul to Oxford University.
*Peter Fritz (logic, philosophy of logic, metaphysics) from the Diaonia Institute of Philosophy/Australian Catholic University to University College London.
*J. Dmitri Gallow (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, rational choice theory) from the Dianoia Institute/Australian Catholic University to the University of Southern California.
*Georgi Gardiner (epistemology, meta-philosophy, social philosophy) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to Tulane University.
*Berys Gaut (aesthetics, ethics) will retire from the University of St Andrews in August 2024.
*Warren Goldfarb (logic, history of analytic philosophy, Wittgenstein) will retire from Harvard University at the end of calendar year 2024.
*Simon Goldstein (philosophy of language, epistemology, AI safety) from the Dianoia Institute/Australican Catholic University to the University of Hong Kong (effective January 2024).
*Robert Gooding-Williams (social-political philosophy, philosophy of race, 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy) from Columbia University to Yale University.
*Jeremy Goodman (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic) from the University of Southern California to Johns Hopkins University (effective January 2024).
*E.J. Green (philosophy of mind & cognitive science) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Johns Hopkins University (effective January 2024).
*Andrew Huddleston (19th & 20th-century Continental philosophy [esp. Nietzsche], aesthetics, ethics) from the University of Warwick to the University of Notre Dame (effective July 2025).
*Jessica Isserow (metaethics, ethics, moral psychology) from the University of Leeds to the University of Notre Dame.
*Elizabeth Jackson (epistemology, philosophy of religion) from Toronto Metropolitan University to St. Louis University.
*Simon Kirchin (ethics, metaethics) from the University of Kent to the University of Leeds (effective January 2024).
*Alexander Kocurek (philosophical logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology) from Cornell University to the University of California, San Diego (untenured lateral).
*Brian Kogelmann (political philosophy) from West Virginia University (Business School) to Purdue University (Philosophy & Political Science).
*Neil Lewis (medieval philosophy) will retire from Georgetown University at the end of June 2024.
*Hallvard Lillehammer (ethics, metaethics) from Birkbeck College, University of London to the University of Sheffield (effective January 2025).
*Chong-Ming Lim (applied ethics, ethics, social & political philosophy) from Nanyang Technological University to the University of Sheffield (untenured lateral) (effective fall 2025).
*Jordan MacKenzie (ethics, applied ethics, moral psychology) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to the University of Virginia (untenured lateral).
*John McDowell (philosophy of mind & language; epistemology; ancient philosophy) will retire from the University of Pittsburgh at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.
*Jon McGinnis (medieval philosophy) from the University of Missouri, St. Louis to the University of Toronto.
*Jeff McMahan (ethics, applied ethics) will retire from Oxford University in summer 2024.
*Jake McNulty (19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy) from University College London to Yale University (untenured lateral) (effective January 2024).
*Sophia Moreau (moral, political & legal philosophy) from the University of Toronto to New York University (Law School).
*Yujin Nagasawa (philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind) from the University of Birmingham to the University of Oklahoma, Norman (effective January 2024).
*Alan Nelson (early modern philosophy) will retire from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.
*Frederick Neuhouser (18th & 19th-century European philosophy, social & political philosophy) will retire from Barnard College/Columbia University at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.
*Alyssa Ney (metaphysics, philosophy of science & physics, philosophy of mind) from the University of California, Davis to LMU Munich.
*Daniel Nolan (metaphysics) from the University of Notre Dame to the University of California, Santa Cruz (effective fall 2025).
*Graham Oddie (metaphysics, ethics, metaethics, formal epistemology) will retired from the University of Colorado, Boulder at the end of June 2024. He will join the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, and be an affiliated faculty member at the PhD program in Norms and Normativity at the University of Stockholm.
*Avia Pasternak (political philosophy) from the University of Toronto to the University of Maryland, College Park.
*Gualtiero Piccinini (philosphy of mind, psychology & neuroscience) from the University of Missouri, St. Louis to the University of Missouri, Columbia.
*Charles Pigden (metaethics) at the University of Otago will enter a phased retirement starting this summer, and will be half-time until his retirement at the end of December 2028.
*Adina Roskies (philosophy of mind & cognitive science) from Dartmouth College to the University of California, Santa Barbara (effective January 2024).
*Rachel Rudolph (philosophy of language) from Auburn University to the University of California, San Diego (untenured lateral).
*Gillian Russell (logic, philosophy of language & logic) from the Dianoia Institute/Australian Catholic University to the Australian National University.
*Nathan Salmon (philosophy of language, metaphysics) will retire from the University of California, Santa Barbara, effective July 1, 2024.
*Peter Singer (ethics, applied ethics) will retire from Princeton University at the end of 2023.
*Michael Smith (ethics, metaethics) will retire from Princeton University at the end of the academic year 2024-25, but his last term of teaching will be in fall 2024.
*Justin Snedegar (ethics) from the University of St Andrews to the University of Virginia.
*Elliott Sober (philosophy of biology, philosophy of science), who retired from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2023, will be a visiting professor of philosophy at Stanford University for the Winter Quarters of 2024, 2025 and 2026.
*Stephen P. Stich (epistemology, philosophy of langauge, philosophy of cognitive science, moral psychology, experimental philosophy) will retire from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, effective July 1, 2024.
*Anna Stilz (political philosophy) from Princeton University (Department of Politics) to the University of California, Berkeley (Political Science, with courtesy appointment in Philosophy).
*Trevor Teitel (metaphysics, philosophy of science & physics) from the University of Toronto to Stanford University (untenured lateral).
*Nandi Theunissen (ethics) from the University of Pittsburgh to Rice University.
*Justin Tosi (social, political, moral & legal philosophy) from Texas Tech University to Georgetown University (Business School).
*Neil Van Leeuwen (philosophy of mind and psychology) from Georgia State University to Florida State University.
*Daniel Viehoff (moral & political philosophy) from New York University to the University of California, Berkeley.
*Brandon Warmke (ethics, political philosophy) from Bowling Green State University to the University of Florida Gainesville (Hamilton Center).
*Monique Wonderly (ethics, applied ethics, moral psychology) from the University of California, San Diego to Johns Hopkins University.
*Stephen Yablo (metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of language) will retire from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 2024. (He was listed as on phased retirement in the last PGR.)
*Yuan Yuan (moral, political & legal philosophy) from New York University-Shanghai to the University of California, San Diego (untenured lateral).
Obviously a number of these developments (in 2022, in 2023 and now 2024) would likely alter the 2021 PGR results in a new survey (which won't take place before fall 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 in the top 20. I would also expect North Carolina, Notre Dame and CUNY, despite significant losses since 2021, to remain, respectively, in the top 15, top 20, and top 20-25; Brown to remain in the top 25; Arizona and Wisconsin to remain in roughly the top 25; and BU and Rice to still remain in the top 50. Illinois/Urbana and Purdue will probably re-enter the top 50, and UC Santa Cruz seems likely to break the top 50 for the first time.
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