David Christensen (epistemology, philosophy of science) at the University of Vermont has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Brown University, to start this fall.

Christensen is the third senior faculty member in the last half-dozen years at Vermont to be hired away by a major PhD program:  Hilary Kornblith (epistemology) moved from Vermont to the University of Massachussetts at Amherst; and Derk Pereboom (philosophy of action and mind, modern philosophy, philosophy of religion) moved, even more recently, to Cornell University.  Vermont’s is plainly a department with a very sharp eye for philosophical talent!  Even with these losses, it still remains among the very top departments (in terms of faculty quality) offering only an undergraduate degree.