Alan Hajek (philosophy of science, decision theory, epistemology) at California Institute of Technology has accepted a senior offer from the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. The ANU, which suffered two major losses in recent years (Michael Smith is going to Princeton, and Philip Pettit also went to Princeton, though he is now taking up an Australian Federation Fellowship at Sydney), now concludes a good year, adding Hajek, as well as David Chalmers, another recipient, like Pettit, of an Australian Federation Fellowship.
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