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Driver & Sorensen from Dartmouth to Wash U/St. Louis

Julia Driver (ethics) and Roy Sorensen (epistemology, metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of language) at Dartmouth College have accepted senior offers from the Department of Philosophy at Washington University, St. Louis.  The Wash U department has been on a steady upward trajectory with good senior and junior hiring over the last half-dozen years; these latest appointments will probably propel it solidly into the U.S. top thirty, perhaps higher.

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