As recently noted, Princeton Philosophy has made an ambitious set of senior offers (to John Hawthorne and Tim Maudlin at Rutgers, and Delia Graff at Cornell), and now, it turns out, so too has NYU, which has voted out tenured offers to: Paul Horwich (philosophy of language, philosophy of science) at the City University of New York Graduate Center; James Pryor (epistemology) at Princeton University; Michael Strevens (philosophy of science and physics), currently untenured at Stanford University; and David Velleman (ethics, philosophy of action) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Horwich and Pryor, together, cover the areas of Christopher Peacocke, who is leaving NYU for Columbia; Strevens is, in a sense, the replacement for Gordon Belot (philosophy of physics), who is moving to Pittsburgh; and Velleman the replacement for Frances Myrna Kamm (ethics), who went to Harvard.

(On a sidenote: Strevens, bizarrely, failed to get through the tenure process at Stanford, but has since garnered offers not only from two better departments–NYU and Michigan–but also other leading departments such as Brown and UC San Diego, guaranteeing that his case will enter the ever-growing annals of “spectacular tenure mistakes.”)