Yet another distinguished philosopher and PGR Advisory Board member, Keith DeRose (epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion) at Yale University, has turned down an offer from another top department, in this case the University of Arizona.

This leads me to wonder: is there a correlation between being a PGR Advisory Board member and market demand? So far this season, 4 PGR Board members are being recruited by top departments, and several others who are being recruited by top philosophy departments are regular evaluators in the PGR surveys. But, of course, there’s the old correlation/causation problem…