Paul Noordhof, currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, has accepted appointment as Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, a post awarded in a university-wide competition.  (Noordhof, who is also Book Review Editor of Mind, will join Mind‘s new editor, Tom Baldwin, at York, among many other philosophers.)  For his first three years at York, he will also hold a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship supporting his work on "Consciousness and Representation."  I would expect this appointment to secure York’s place squarely in the U.K. top 15 (York was on the cusp in 2004).  Nottingham, which added (half-time) Gonzalo Rodriguez Pereyra from Oxford since the 2004 PGR, will quite likely remain in the U.K. top 15 as well, notwithstanding Professor Noordhof’s departure.

(Note that for Mind editorial purposes, Noordhof’s e-mail address will switch to York come the fall.)