MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 5, WITH SOME MORE CORRECTIONS PLUS ADDITION OF THE TOP NON-US PROGRAMS

This is a compilation of major (tenured or equivalent) faculty moves and tenure-track hires/losses involving PhD programs since the last PGR survey (fall 2006), for the benefit of students using the PGR in choosing graduate schools this coming academic year.  It covers the top 53 US departments.  I will try to add an update for U.K. Canadian, and Australasian Departments during the fall.

This list includes only faculty moves that were not reflected in the faculty lists for the Fall 2006 surveys. Remember, those faculty lists were based on expected faculty profile for fall 2007, so included some announced, planned moves.  The updates below include announced moves that may not take effect till 2009.

Many or most of the tenured faculty moves recorded here are likely to affect the specialty rankings for the areas in which these faculty work.

Please post corrections and additions in the comments; no anonymous corrections/additions will be approved.  I list programs by their 2006 overall rank.  Post corrections/additions below, do not e-mail me.  This will prevent duplication of efforts.

U.S.  Departments most improved since 2006 would seem to be NYU, Yale, CUNY Grad Center, UC Riverside, Colorado, Wash U/St. Louis, and Northwestern.  Among programs not ranked in 2006, the most improved are probably the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the University of South Florida.  Outside the U.S., the most improved are probably British Columbia and Warwick.

"Added" faculty are those added with tenure.  For tenure-track hires, previous tenure-track positions (if any) are also noted.

The list of faculty "over 70" in 2009 includes only those new to that category from the time of the 2006-07 survey–in other words, faculty born in 1938 or 1939.  Remember:  in the U.S., there is no mandatory retirement age; prospective students should inquire with the faculty in question about their plans.

U.S. Departments:  Changes since Fall 2006 Survey

1.  New York University:  Added Samuel Scheffler (moral and political philosophy) from Berkeley, Ted Sider (metaphysics) from Rutgers, and Crispin Wright (philosophy of language, math, and logic; epistemology) from St. Andrews.  Tenure-track hires:  Laura Franklin-Hall (philosophy of biology), Columbia PhD; Japa Pallikkathayil (moral and political philosophy), Harvard PhD; and Seth Yalcin (philosophy of language, metaphysics), MIT PhD.  Faculty "over 70" in 2009:  Thomas Nagel.

2.  Rutgers University, New Brunswick:  Added Andy Egan (metaphysics, philosophy of language and mind, metaethics) from Michigan, Jeffrey King (philosophy of language) from Southern California, Martin Lin (early modern philosophy) from Toronto, and Brian Weatherson (epistemology, decision theory, metaphysics, philosophy of language) from Cornell. Lost Frank Arntzenius (philosophy of physics) to Oxford, Stephen Neale (philosophy of language) to the CUNY Graduate Center, and Ted Sider (metaphysics) to NYU.  The half-time arrangement with John Hawthorne (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language) at Oxford University also ended.  Tenure-track hire:  Ishani Maitra (philosophy of language, feminist philosophy), MIT PhD, previously on tenure-track at Syracuse (joint with Rutgers-Newark).   Faculty "over 70" in 2009:  Alvin Goldman.

3.  Princeton University:  Added (part-time) Frank Jackson (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, metaethics) from the Australian National University and (quarter-time) John Hawthorne (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language) from Oxford University.   Tenure-track hire:  Sarah McGrath (metaphysics, ethics), MIT PhD, previously on tenure-track at Brandeis; tenure-track loss:  Karen Bennett (philosophy of mind, metaphysics) to Cornell. Adam Elga (philosophy of science and physics, decision theory), Thomas Kelly (epistemology, ethics) and Hendrik Lorenz (ancient philosophy) were all granted tenure.  Paul Benacerraf (philosophy of mathematics) retired.   Bas van Fraassen (philosophy of science and physics) retired and moved to San Francisco State University.  Affiliated faculty member Philip Pettit (moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science) from the Politics Department is now a full member of the Philosophy Department as well.  Faculty "over 70" in 2009:  John M. Cooper, Gilbert Harman.

3.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:  Added Gordon Belot (philosophy of physics) from the University of Pittsburgh; Sarah Buss (philosophy of action, ethics) from the University of Iowa; and Laura Ruetsche (philosophy of physics) from the University of Pittsburgh.  Tenure-track hires:  David Baker (philosophy of physics), Princeton PhD; Sarah Moss (philosophy of language, metaphysics, formal epistemology), MIT PhD [effective fall 2009].  Lost Stephen Darwall (ethics, history of ethics) to Yale University, Peter Ludlow (philosophy of language) to the University of Toronto (Ludlow has since moved to Northwestern), Ian Proops (history of analytic philosophy, Kant) to the University of Texas at Austin, and Scott Shapiro (philosophy of law, philosophy of action) to Yale Law School.  Tenure-track loss:  Andy Egan (metaphysics, philosophy of language and mind, metaethics) to a tenured post at Rutgers.  Faculty "over 70" in  2009:  Lawrence Sklar, Richmond Thomason, Kendall Walton.

5.  University of Pittsburgh:  Lost Gordon Belot and Laura Ruetsche (both philosophy of physics) to Michigan, and Cian Dorr (metaphysics) and Jessica Moss (ancient philosophy) to Oxford University.  Tenure-track hire: Karl Schaefer (ethics, epistemology, early modern philosophy, Kant), NYU PhD. 
Edouard Machery (philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, experimental philosophy) and Kieran Setiya (ethics) were granted tenure. 

6.  Stanford University:  Lost J.M.E. Moravcsik (ancient philosophy) and John Perry (philosophy of language and mind) to retirement; Perry has also moved half-time to UC Riverside (he still does some teaching at Stanford); also lost Allen Wood (Kant, 19th-century German philosophy) and Rega Wood (medieval philosophy) to Indiana/Bloomington. Tenure-track hire:  Alexis Burgess (metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic), Princeton PhD.  Nadeem Hussain (ethics, metaethics, 19th-century German philosophy) and Krista Lawlor (philosophy of mind) were granted tenure. Tenure-track loss:  Agnieszka Jaworska (ethics) to a tenured post at the University of California, Riverside. David Hills (aesthetics, Kant, philosophy of mind, Continental philosophy), previously a lecturer in the Department, has been promoted to Associate Professor (Teaching), which permits him to, among other things, supervise dissertation.

7.  Harvard University:  Cross-appointed Tommie Shelby (social and political philosophy, African-American philosophy) from the Department of African and African-American Studies.

7.  Massachussetts Institute of Technology:  Agustin Rayo (philosophy of logic, philosophy of language) was tenured.  Tenure-track hire:  Brad Skow (philosophy of science, metaphysics), NYU PhD, previously on tenure-track at U Mass/Amherst. 

7.  University of California, Los Angeles:  Lost Calvin Normore (medieval philosophy, political philosophy, logic) to McGill.  (Normore is technically on leave, so could return.) Tenure-track hire:  Sam Cumming (philosophy of language), Rutgers PhD.  Tenure-track loss:  Christopher Smeenk (philosophy of physics) to Western Ontario.  Mark Greenberg (philosophy of language and mind, philosophy of law), Pamela Hieronymi (ethics), and Sheldon Smith (philosophy of science and physics) were all tenured.  Faculty "over 70" by 2009:  Terence Parsons.

10. Columbia University:  Lost affiliated faculty member Thomas Pogge (political philosophy) to Yale University.   Souleymane Bachir Diagne (logic, history of philosophy, Islamic philosophy, African philosophy) joined the Department of French and Romance Philology.

10. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:  Added (part-time) Simon Blackburn (ethics, philosophy of language and mind) from Cambridge University and (full-time) Laurie (L.A.) Paul (metaphysics) from University of Arizona.  (Note:  Blackburn will teach at UNC one semester per year for the next six years, except for 2009-10; the appointment stretches beyond his retirement from Cambridge, although the first visits will run in parallel with that position, occupying terms of leave.)    Lost Jesse Prinz (philosophy of mind, moral psychology) to the CUNY Graduate Center.  Thomas Hofweber (metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics)  and Ram Neta (epistemology) were granted tenure.  Tenure-track hires: Matthew Kotzen (epistemology, philosophy of science), NYU PhD and Ryan Preston (ethics, philosophy of religion), NYU PhD.  Michael Resnik (philosophy of mathematics) retired.  Faculty "over 70" in 2009:  Thomas Hill, Jr..

12. University of California, Berkeley:  Lost Samuel Scheffler (moral and political philosophy) to NYU.   Branden Fitelson (philosophy of science, logic, epistemology) was tenured.  Tenure-track hire:  Lara Buchak (decision theory), Princeton PhD.  Faculty "over 70" in 2009:  Hans Sluga.

13. University of Arizona:  Added Stewart Cohen (epistemology) from Arizona State University.  Lost Laurie (L.A.) Paul (metaphysics) to North Carolina.  Michael Gill (ethics, history of ethics) and Rachana Kamtekar (ancient philosophy, ethics) were tenured.

13. University of Notre Dame:  Added Richard Cross (philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy) from Oxford University. Lost William Ramsey (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  Tenure-track hire:  Grant Ramsey (philosophy of biology), Duke PhD. 

13. University of Texas, Austin:  Added (half-time) Hans Kamp (philosophy of language, formal semantics) from Stuttgart (where he is emeritus) and (full-time) Ian Proops (history of analytic philosophy, Kant) from Michigan.  Lost Frederick Kronz (philosophy of physics) to the National Science Foundation; Brian Leiter (philosophy of law, ethics, Continental philosophy) to the University of Chicago Law School; and Robert C. Solomon (Continental philosophy, philosophy of the emotions), who passed away.  Regular visiting professor (and affiliated faculty member) Leslie Green (legal and political philosophy) is switching his part-time visiting stint to Chicago.  Tenure-track hires: Ray Buchanan (philosophy of language), NYU PhD and Anna-Sara Malmgren (epistemology), NYU PhD.  Robert Kane (ethics, philosophy of action) retires at the end of the academic year.

16.  Brown University:  Added David Christensen (epistemology, philosophy of science) from the University of Vermont. Tenure-track hire:  Katherine Dunlop (Kant), UCLA PhD. 

16.  Cornell University:  Added Karen Bennett (philosophy of mind, metaphysics) from a tenure-track position at Princeton, and Tad Brennan (ancient philosophy) from Northwestern.  Lost Brian Weatherson (epistemology, decision theory, metaphysics, philosophy of language) to Rutgers.  Tenure-track hire:  Erin Taylor (ethics), UCLA PhD.  Matti Eklund (metaphysics, philosophy of language) was tenured.

16. University of Southern California:  Added Gary Watson (philosophy of action, ethics) from UC Riverside.  Lost Jeffrey King (philosophy of language) to Rutgers.  Tenure-track hire:  Kenny Easwaran (logic, formal epistemology), Berkeley PhD.  Mark Schroeder (ethics) was tenured.  Faculty "over 70" in 2009:  Dallas Willard.

16. Yale University:  Added Stephen Darwall (ethics, history of ethics) from Michigan, Thomas Pogge (political philosophy) from Columbia University, and Kenneth Winkler (early modern philosophy) from Wellesley.  Tenure-track hire:  Barbara Sattler (ancient philosophy), Freie Universtat (Berlin) PhD, previously on tenure-track at Illinois/Urbana.  Tenure-track losses:  James Kreines (19th-century German philosophy) to a tenure-track position at Claremont-McKenna College; Michael Weber (ethics) to a tenure-track position at Bowling Green State University.  Scott Shapiro (philosophy of law, philosophy of action) joined the Law School.

20.  University of California, Irvine:  Lost Aldo Antonelli (logic) to UC Davis and Nicholas White (ancient philosophy), who retired and moved to the University of Utah.  Tenure-track hires:  M. Oreste Fiocco (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, ethics), UC Santa Barbara PhD; Sean Greenberg (early modern philosophy), Harvard PhD, previously on tenure-track at Johns Hopkins; Jeremy Heis (Kant, philosophy of mathematics, history of analytic philosophy), Pittsburgh PhD; Simon Huttegger (game and decision theory), Salzburg PhD; Wayne Wright (philosophy of mind and psychology), Temple PhD.  Tenure-track loss:  William Bristow (19th-century German philosophy) to Wisconsin/Milwaukee.  Aaron James (ethics) was tenured.

20.  University of Chicago:  Tenure-track hires:  Agnes Callard (ethics, philosophy of action, ancient philosophy), Berkeley PhD, and Anton Ford (philosophy of action, ethics), Pittsburgh PhD.  Added (one-third time) Jocelyn Benoist (phenomenology, Kant, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of mind) from the Sorbonne.  Tenure-track losses:  Jonathan Beere (ancient philosophy) to a post in Germany and Yitzhak Melamed (early modern philosophy) to Johns Hopkins.  William Wimsatt (philosophy of biology) will retire at the end of the 2008-09 academic year.  (John Haugeland [philosophy of mind, Heidegger] will retire at the end of the 2009-10 academic year which means, if we were doing a survey this fall, he’d be part of the faculty list.)  Brian Leiter (philosophy of law, ethics, Continental philosophy) and (one-third-time) Leslie Green (political and legal philosophy) joined the Law School.

23.  City University of New York Graduate Center:  Added Alan Berger (philosophy of language) from Brandeis University, Jeffrey Bluestein (bioethics) from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Noel Carroll (aesthetics) from Temple University, Stephen Neale (philosophy of language) from Rutgers, Graham Priest (logic) from Melbourne, and Jesse Prinz (philosophy of mind, moral psychology, cognitive science) from North Carolina.  Lost Galen Strawson (philosophy of mind and action, early modern philosophy), who has been part-time at CUNY the last few years; he is returning full-time to the University of Reading.

24.  University of Massachussetts, Amherst:  Lost Jonathan Schaffer (metaphysics) to the Australian National University. Tenure-track hires:  Ernesto Garcia (modern philosophy, 19th-century philosophy, ethics, political philosophy), Columbia PhD; Chris Meacham (philosophy of physics, formal epistemology), Rutgers PhD.  Tenure-track loss:  Brad Skow (metaphysics, philosophy of science) to MIT.

24.  University of Wisconsin, Madison:  Lost Eric Margolis (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) to the University of British Columbia.  Tenure-track hire:  Michael Titelbaum (epistemology, ethics), Berkeley PhD. 

26.  Ohio State University:  No changes.

27.  Duke University:  Added Wayne Norman (political philosophy, business ethics) from the University of Montreal and Gopal Sreenivasan (ethics, medical ethics, political philosophy) from Toronto.

27.  Indiana University, Bloomington:  Added Allen Wood (Kant, 19th-century German philosophy) and Rega Wood (medieval philosophy) from Stanford University.  J. Michael Dunn (logic) retired.

27.  University of Maryland, College Park:  Lost Judith Lichtenberg (applied ethics) to Georgetown.  Tenure-track hires:  Erin Eaker (philosophy of language), UCLA PhD, previously on tenure-track at Western Ontario; Dan Moller (ethics), Princeton PhD; and Rachel Singpurwalla (ancient, ethics), Colorado PhD, previously on tenure-track at Southern Illinois (Edwardsville).

27.  University of Pennsylvania:  Karen Detlefsen (early modern philosophy) and Kok-Chor Tan (political philosophy) were tenured.

31.  University of California, Riverside:  Added Maudemarie Clark (19th-century German philosophy, esp. Nietzsche) from Colgate University; Agnieszka Jaworska (ethics), previously Assistant Professor at Stanford; John Perry (philosophy of language and mind) on a half-time basis from Stanford (where he is now emeritus); and Mark Wrathall (20th-century Continental philosophy) from Brigham Young University.  Lost Gary Watson (philosophy of action, ethics), who retired and took a position at Southern California.

32.  Syracuse University:  Tenure-track hires:  Kevin Edwards (philosophy of mind, philosophy of language), Rutgers PhD, previously tenure-track at Kansas; Melissa Frankel (early modern), Harvard PhD; Kara Richardson (early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy), Toronto PhD.  Tenure-track losses:  Ishani Maitra (philosophy of language, feminist philosophy) to Rutgers; Eric Schliesser (early modern philosophy, philosophy of economics) to Leiden.  Benjamin Bradley (ethics) was tenured.

32.  University of Colorado, Boulder:  Added Katherin Koslicki (metaphysics, philosophy of language, ancient philosophy) from Tufts University; Alastair Norcross (ethics) from Rice University; and Ajume Wingo (social & political philosophy, African philosophy, aesthetics) from the University of Massachussetts, Boston. Tenure-track hires:  Dominic Bailey (ancient philosophy), a Cambridge PhD; Benjamin Hale (environmental ethics, applied ethics), Stony Brook PhD.

32.  University of Miami:  Tenure-track hires:  Eli Chudnoff (epistemology, philosophy of mind), Harvard PhD; Bradford Cokelet (ethics), Northwestern PhD; Nicholas Stang (Kant, metaphysics, early modern philosophy), Princeton PhD.

35.  Johns Hopkins University:  Lost Peter Achinstein (philosophy of science) to Yeshiva University.  Tenure-track hire:  Yitzhak Melamed (early modern philosophy), Yale PhD, previously tenure-track at University of Chicago.  Tenure-track losses:  Sean Greenberg (early modern) to UC Irvine, and Maura Tumulty (philosophy of mind, Wittgenstein) to Colgate University. 

35.  University of California, Davis:  Added Aldo Antonelli (logic) from UC Irvine, David Copp (ethics, metaethics) from Florida, Elaine Landry (philosophy of mathematics and science) from Calgary, and Marina Oshana (philosophy of action, ethics) from Florida.  Lost Jonathan Vogel (epistemology) back to Amherst College.  Tenure-track loss:  Pekka Vayrynen (ethics) took a permanent post at the University of Leeds.  Paul Teller (philosophy of physics) has retired.

35.  University of Illinois, Chicago:  Lost Charles Mills (political philosophy, critical race theory, African-American philosophy) to Northwestern.  Tenure-track hire:  John Whipple (early modern), UC Irvine PhD.

35.  University of Washington, Seattle:  Robert Coburn (metaphysics, social philosophy) retired.

39.  Carnegie-Mellon University:  Tenure-track hire:  Nicole Hassoun (social and political philosophy), Arizona PhD.

39.  Georgetown University: Added Judith Lichtenberg (applied ethics) from the University of Maryland, College Park.  Lost Alexander Pruss (metaphysics, philosophy of religion) to Baylor University.

39.  University of California, Santa Barbara:  No changes.  Nathan Salmon (philosophy of language, metaphysics) has an offer from Southern California.

39.  University of Virginia: Added Dominic Scott (ancient philosophy) from Cambridge University.  Tenure-track hire:  Sahar Akhtar (ethics, political philosophy), Duke PhD.  Antonia LoLordo (early modern) was tenured.

39.  Washington University, St. Louis:  Added Julia Driver (ethics) and Roy Sorensen (epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophical logic), both from Dartmouth College. Tenure-track hires:  Frederick Eberhardt (philosophy of science, formal epistemology), Carnegie-Mellon PhD; Mariska Leunissen (ancient philosophy), Leiden PhD; Thomas Sattig (metaphysics, philosophy of language), Oxford DPhil, previously on tenure-track at Tulane.  Tenure-track loss:  Phillip Robbins (philosophy of mind, psychology, and language) to Missouri/Columbia.

44. Arizona State University:  Added Cheshire Calhoun (ethics, philosophy of the emotions, feminist philosophy, philosophy of sexuality) from Colby College.  Losing Stewart Cohen (epistemology) to Arizona.  Douglas Portmore (ethics) was tenured.

44.  Florida State University:  Tenure-track hire:  James Justus (philosophy of biology), Texas PhD.

44.  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities:  Tenure-track hire:  Roy Cook (logic, philosophy of mathematics), an Ohio State PhD.  Ronald Giere (philosophy of science) and Keith Gunderson (philosophy of mind) retired.

44.  University of Rochester:  Lost David Braun (philosophy of language) to Buffalo and Henry Kyburg, Jr. (decision theory, epistemology, philosophy of science), who passed away.  Tenure-track hire:  Brad Weslake (philosophy of time and causation), a Sydney PhD. 

48.  University of Connecticut, Storrs: Added Steven Wall (political philosophy) from Bowling Green State University.  Tenure-track hire:  Marcus Rossberg (philosophy of logic, metaphysics). St. Andrews PhD.  Tenure-track loss:  Dan Ryder (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of science) to new Kelowna campus of the University of British Columbia.

48.  University of Florida, Gainesville:  Lost or losing Murat Aydede (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) to British Columbia, David Copp (ethics) and Marina Oshana to UC Davis.   PhD program has currently suspended admissions.

50.  Boston University: Tenure-track hires:  Susanne Sreedhar (early modern), North Carolina PhD, previously on tenure-track at Tulane; Daniel Star (ethics, epistemology), Oxford DPhil.  Tenure-track loss:  Simon Keller (ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics) to Melbourne (now at Victoria University, Wellington).

50.  Rice University:  Lost Alastair Norcross (ethics) to Colorado/Boulder.  Tenure-track hires: Melinda Fagan (philosophy of science, epistemology), Indiana HPS and Stanford Biology PhDs; Casey O’Callaghan (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language), Princeton PhD, previously tenure-track at Colby College; Nicoletta Orlandi (philosophy of mind and cognitive science), North Carolina PhD.

50.  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:  Tenure-track hire:  Dan Korman (metaphysics, philosophy of language), Texas PhD.  Richard Schacht (Continental philosophy) retired.

53.  Northwestern University: Added Sanford Goldberg (epistemology, philosophy of language and mind) from Kentucky; Jennifer Lackey (epistemology, philosophy of mind) from a tenure-track position at Northern Illinois; Peter Ludlow (philosophy of language and mind) from Toronto, and Charles Mills (political philosophy, critical race theory, African-American philosophy) from Illinois/Chicago.  Lost Tad Brennan (ancient philosophy) to Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne (logic, Islamic philosophy, African philosophy) to Columbia University.  (Judging from the web site, it also appears that Jurgen Habermas is no longer a part-time faculty member.)  Tenure-track hires:  David Ebrey (ancient philosophy), UCLA PhD, previously a post-doc at Berkeley; Baron Reed (epistemology, modern philosophy), a Brown PhD, previously on tenure-track at Northern Illinois.  Rachel Zuckert (Kant, 19th-century German philosophy, aesthetics) was tenured.

53.  University of Missouri, Columbia:  Added Phillip Robbins (philosophy of mind, psychology, and language) from a tenure-track position at Washington University, St. Louis.

U.K. Departments

1.  Oxford University:  Added Frank Arntzenius (philosophy of physics) from Rutgers, Cian Dorr (metaphysics) from Pittsburgh, Jessica Moss (ancient philosophy) from Pittsburgh, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (metaphysics) from Nottingham and Scott Sturgeon (epistemology, philosophy of mind) from Birkbeck.  Others listed here. Lost G.A. Cohen (political philosophy) to retirement.  Leslie Green (legal and political philosophy) also accepted the Chair in Philosophy of Law on the Law Faculty at Oxford.

2.  Cambridge University:  Lost Quassin Cassam (metaphysics, epistemology, Kant, philosophy of mind) to Warwick and Dominic Scott (ancient philosophy) to Virginia.  Peter Lipton (philosophy of science) passed away.  Simon Blackburn (ethics, philosophy of language) will go half-time back to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (see description of the arrangement, above, under listing for North Carolina). 

3.  University of St. Andrews:  Added Herman Cappelen (philosophy of language) from Oxford.  Added (quarter-time as Professorial Fellows) Francois Recanati (Jean Nicod, Paris), Jonathan Schaffer (ANU), Jason Stanley (Rutgers), and Brian Weatherson (Rutgers), all working in and around philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics, and epistemology.  Losing Crispin Wright (philosophyv of language, math, and logic; epistemology) to a full-time position at NYU in fall 2008, though he will continue as Director of the Arche Centre and will be extensively involved in its research projects and graduate teaching.  Junior hire:  Craig Smith (political philosophy).  NOTE:  St. Andrews and Stirling are now officially running only a joint program, and so St. Andrews will no longer be ranked only as a separate unit.

4.  Birkbeck College, University of London: Added Keith Hossack (metaphysics, philosophy of language and math) from King’s College, London.  Lost Giles Pearson (ancient philosophy) to Bristol and Scott Sturgeon to Oxford (see above).  Ken Gemes (philosophy of science, Nietzsche) will move half-time to Southampton (though will continue half-time at Birkbeck).  Junior hire:  Michael Garnett (political philosophy), a Toronto PhD.

4.  University College London: Added Christopher Peacocke (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and mind) who teaches part-time (May-July) (but remains full-time for the American academic year at Columbia). Lost affiliated faculty member Ronald Dworkin (Law Faculty), who retired.  Junior hire:  Rory Madden (philosophy of mind and action, metaphysics & epistemology), Oxford DPhil.  Michael Otsuka (political philosophy) has an offer from Pittsburgh.

6.  King’s College, London:  Added Maria Rosa Antognazza (philosophy of religion, early modern) from Aberdeen.  Lost Hossack to Birkbeck (see above) and Mark Sainsbury (philosophy of language, philosophical logic), who had been teaching in the summer sessions. Junior hires:  John Callanan (Kant, early modern), Oxford DPhil; Matteo Mameli (philosophy of biology and cognitive science), LSE PhD; Will Rasmussen (ancient), King’s PhD; Andrea Sangiovanni (political philosophy), Harvard PhD.  Leif Wenar (political philosophy) joined the Law Faculty. 

6.  University of Sheffield:  Lost John Divers (metaphysics, philosophy of language and logic) to Leeds and Leif Wenar (political philosophy) to the Law Faculty at King’s College, London.  Junior hires:  Helen Frowe (ethics), Reading PhD; Fiona Woollard (ethics), Reading PhD; Urlich Schloesser (Kant, 19th- and 20th-century German philosophy).

8.  London School of Economics: Added Christian List (social choice theory, formal epistemology, political philosophy) fom the Government Department at LSE (he will now split his time between the two units) and Miklos Redei (history and philosophy of physics) from Eotvos Univ. (Budapest).  Lost Stephan Hartmann (philosophy of science and physics, formal epistemology, social choice theory) to Tilburg University (Netherland) and Colin Howson (philosophy of science, logic) to the University of Toronto.  Junior hire:  Katie Steele (rational choice, formal epistemology, environmental philosophy), Sydney PhD.

9.  University of Bristol:  Added Leon Horsten (logic) from the Catholic University of Leuven.  Lost Susan Hurley (philosophy of mind), who passed away.  Junior hires: Michelle Montague (metaphysics), previously on tenure-track at UC Irvine; Giles Pearson (ancient philosophy), a Cambridge PhD, previously at Birkbeck.

9.  University of Edinburgh:  Added Duncan Pritchard (epistemology) from the University of Stirling.  Lost Peter Milne (logic, probability theory) to Stirling.

9.  University of Leeds:  Added John Divers (metaphysics, philosophy of language and logic) from Sheffield and Pekka Vayrynen (ethics) from a tenure-track position at UC Davis.  Lost Peter Simons (metaphysics) to Trinity College Dublin and Chris Timpson (philosophy of physics, science, language, and mind) to Oxford.  Junior hires:  Alix Cohen (Kant, philosophy of social sciences and history), Cambridge PhD; Jason Turner (metaphysics, philosophy of action, philosophy of language, philosophical logic), Rutgers PhD; Juha Saatsi (philosophy of science), Leeds PhD; Sophie Weeks (early modern science), Leeds PhD.

9.  University of Nottingham:  Added Philip Percival (metaphysics, philosophical logic, epistemology) from Glasgow.  Lost Rodriguez-Pereyra (metaphysics) to Oxford (see above).  Junior hires:  Neil Sinclair (ethics, metaethics), Cambridge PhD, and Jonathan Tallant (metaphysics), Durham PhD.

9.  University of Reading:  Galen Strawson (philosophy of mind and action) has returned full-time to the faculty (after being part-time at CUNY).  Lost Simon Glendinning (20th-century French philosophy) to the European Institute at LSE.  Junior hires:  Severin Schroeder (Wittgenstein, aesthetics, 19th-century German philosophy); Bart Streumer (ethics, philosophy of action), Reading PhD.

Canadian Departments

1.  University of Toronto:  Added Colin Howson (philosophy of science, logic) from the London School of Economics.  Lost Martin Lin (early modern philosophy) to Rutgers, Gopal Sreenivasan (ethics, political philosophy) to Duke, and Wayne Sumner (political philosophy) to retirement.  Tenure-track loss:  Jennifer Hawkins (ethics).  Anjan Chakravartty (philosophy of science) and Jennifer Nagel (epistemology) were tenured.

2.  University of Western Ontario:  Tenure-track hires:  Gillian Barker (philosophy of biology and science), UC San Diego PhD, previously tenure-track at Bucknell; Corey Dyck (early modern, Kant), Boston College PhD; Christopher Smeenk (philosophy of science), Pittsburgh PhD, previously on tenure-track at UCLA.  Tenure-track loss:  Erin Eaker (philosophy of language) to Maryland.

3.  McGill University:  Added Calvin Normore (medieval philosophy, political philosophy, logic) from UCLA, as the Macdonald Professor of Moral Philosophy.  Tenure-track hires:  Michael Blome-Tillmann (epistemology, philosophy of logic and language), Oxford DPhil; Iwao Hirose (ethics, political philosophy), St. Andrews PhD.

4.  University of British Columbia:  Added Murat Aydede (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) from the University of Florida, Gainesville and Eric Margolis (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Australasian Departments

1.  Australian National University:  Added Jonathan Schaffer (metaphysics, epistemology) from the University of Massachussetts at Amherst.  Frank Jackson (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ethics) is going part-time (five months) to Princeton (see above), and then will spend about half the year at La Trobe University, and just one month per year at the ANU.  Junior hires:  Susanna Schellenberg (philosophy of mind, epistemology), Pittsburgh PhD; Nicholas Southwood (political philosophy, ethics), ANU PhD.  ANU has a lot of Postdoctoral Fellows, and there has been considerable turnover in that department in the last couple of years–Egan, Neta, Paul, and Pautz, among others, have completed their stints, and others have joined. 

2.  University of Sydney:  Added Dominic Murphy (philosophy of psychology and cognitive science) from a tenure-track position at California Institute of Technology.

3.  University of Melbourne:  Losing Graham Priest (logic) to CUNY Graduate Center.  There are other losses, due to budgetary problems, but I am not clear on the details.

4.  Monash University:  Very hard to interpret the on-line information in this case.  Not sure there have been major changes, but I hope someone from Monash can clarify.

4.  University of Auckland: Lost Stefano Franchi (Continental philosophy) to a Visiting Professorship at Texas A&M University, and Lisa Guenther (Continental philosophy, feminist philosophy) to a tenure-track position at Vanderbilt University.  Junior hires:  Glen Pettigrove (ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion), UC Riverside PhD; Matheson Russell (phenomenology, critical theory), New South Wales PhD; Patrick Girard (logic), Stanford PhD.

Please, before posting any "corrections," make sure the faculty in question weren’t already included on the 2006 faculty lists for the PGR surveys.  Remember, some faculty who who didn’t start to fall 2007 had nonetheless committed to move, and so were included on the fall 2006 lists.  I am particularly interested in information on junior faculty who were tenured, or senior faculty who have retired by fall 2009, since these are most likely to have been omitted from the lists above.  Temporary appointments are not listed.

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