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Crispin Wright (philosophy of language, math and logic; epistemology) at the University of St. Andrews has accepted the full-time, senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at New York University, to start in fall 2008. He will, however, continue to be involved with the Arche Centre at St. Andrews.
This is the third senior appointment for NYU this year; the other two were Samuel Scheffler (moral and political philosophy) from Berkeley and Ted Sider (metaphysics) from Rutgers.
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