MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOVEMBER 13, 2007:  SEE UPDATE

Duke University has voted out senior offers of endowed Chairs to Wayne Norman (political philosophy, business ethics), who currently holds a Research Chair in Business Ethics at the University of Montreal, and to Gopal Sreenivasan (ethics, political philosophy), who is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto where he holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair.  Norman’s appointment would be joint with the Philosophy Department and the Kenan Institute for Ethics; Sreenivasan’s appointment would be joint with Philosophy and the Medical School. 

UPDATE:  Professor Norman has now accepted the Duke offer.