May 2007
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Benkler from Yale to Harvard
Yochai Benkler (information law and policy, communications law, intellectual property) at Yale Law School has accepted the senior offer from Harvard Law School.
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Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
What do Oxford or UK readers make of this: The college head thinks 95% of us are going to burn in hell. His new deputy believes it’s wrong for women to teach men. Insiders are complaining about an "openly homophobic" atmosphere. A third of the academic staff have resigned. Others are unwilling to speak openly…
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Callender to Stay at UCSD, Turning Down Both Rutgers and Pitt HPS
Craig Callender (philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics) at the University of California at San Diego has turned down the tenured offers from the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University at New Brunswick and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. That’s a significant retention coup for UCSD!
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Darby from Texas A&M to Kansas
Derrick Darby (social and political philosophy, African-American philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, has accepted a tenured offer (also at the Associate Professor rank) from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kansas.
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What is an “Area of Competence”?
So everyone familiar with the philosophy job market knows that your CV is supposed to list your "Areas of Specialization" (AOS) and "Areas of Competence" (AOC), and most jobs in fact mention one or both of these qualifications with regard to the applicants they are soliciting. AOS, I take it, is usually fairly clear: it…
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Sider from Rutgers to NYU
Ted Sider (metaphysics) at Rutgers University at New Brunswick has accepted the senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at New York University, turning down, in the process, offers from Princeton and Yale.
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“Conservative Organization Flourishes at Yale Law School”
This is an actual headline and news story on the front page of the YLS web site. That they need to post items like this may explain some of what was motivating Peter Schuck (Yale) in our debate about law schools and "ideological diversity" awhile back. But as I said then: "we shouldn’t visit the…
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Friday Poem: “Lesson One”
Lesson One The lesson of objects Is they do not mean There is no wisdom in a thorn Even if you bleed No absolution in a stone Though it be smooth Stars neither dream nor grieve The owl does not frown No paragon of patience is the oak Things do not teach or sign Put…
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Harvard has a lot of offers outstanding!
So reports Einer Elhauge (Harvard)–in addition to those we’ve reported previously (Michael Klarman [Virginia], Martha Nussbaum [Chicago], William Rubenstein [UCLA], and Cass Sunstein [Harvard]), Professor Elhauge also now confirms offers to Yochai Benkler (Yale), Richard Ford (Stanford), Pamela Karlan (Stanford), Robert Post (Yale), Seana Shiffrin (UCLA), Reva Siegel (Yale), and Henry Smith (Yale). My guess…
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Sydney’s Price Wins Second Australian Federation Fellowship
Huw Price (philosophy of science and physics, metaphysics) at the University of Sydney has now been awarded a second lucrative Australian Federation Fellowship. He appears to have been the only philosopher awarded a Fellowship this time around.
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Schueler from New Mexico to Delaware
G.F. Schueler (ethics, practical reason) at the University of New Mexico has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware, where he will also be Chair of the Department. Delaware has had for some time one of the strongest research profiles among departments that do not grant graduate degrees…
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Henderson from Memphis to Nebraska
David Henderson (epistemology, philosophy of social science), currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, has accepted the Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professorship of Philosophy and the Moral Sciences at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, to start this fall. This is the second major senior hire for Nebraska this year, after David Sobel (ethics,…
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Sitkoff from NYU to Harvard
Robert Sitkoff, who only last year moved from Northwestern to NYU, has now accepted a senior offer from Harvard Law School. The Harvard news item is here.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii