Thomas Pogge (political philosophy), who moved not long ago from the Department of Philosophy to the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, has now accepted the senior offer from Yale University, where he will have appointments in the Department of Philosophy and the Center for International and Area Studies.  He will start at Yale in the fall of 2008.  With the recent additions of Pogge, Stephen Darwall, and Kenneth Winkler to the existing ranks (which include Bealer, Bobzien, Della Rocca, DeRose, Gendler, Harte, Kagan, and Szabo, among others)  the Yale Department is now probably in its best shape since the early 1960s and will be, I suspect, at worst, on the cusp of the U.S. top ten when we conduct the next PGR surveys.