Victor Caston (ancient philosophy, philosophy of mind) at the University of California at Davis–and, as it happens, one of the distinguished graduates of our ancient philosophy program–has accepted a senior offer from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Meanwhile, Alan Nelson (early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science) at the University of California at Irvine has turned down the offer from Davis, and will be at Irvine in 05-06.  However, he also now has a senior offer (to start in 2006-07) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he visited last fall.