In the last few years, there seems to have been a mass exodus of many of their best-known (at least in the traditional Stony Brook-Penn State circles) faculty:  Mitchell Aboulafia departed for the Julliard School in New York; Douglas Anderson went to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Daniel Conway to Texas A&M University; John Sallis to Boston College; and Charles Scott back to Vanderbilt University.  Anderson, I am told, is a well-regarded scholar of classical American philosophy, while the others work on various aspects of post-Kantian Continental philosophy (and, in the case of Sallis, ancient philosophy).  While some some good philosophers at Penn State (like John Christman and Dale Jacquette) remain, it is clear something happened to unsettle the department.  Part of the explanation seems to be here.  I wonder if any  readers have further details.  Non-anonymous posts only, and please post only once.