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Wright to Leave St. Andrews Altogether and Establish New “Northern Institute of Philosophy” at Aberdeen

Crispin Wright, now at New York University, will leave his part-time post at the University of St. Andrews and the Arche Centre there this summer, and take up leadership (again on a part-time basis) of the new Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.  There are more details here.  Like Arche, the Institute will support six quarter-time research fellows and no doubt be a further boon to the revival of philosophy at Aberdeen, which has also recently appointed (part-time) Stephen Gaukroger (early modern) from Sydney and (full-time) Catherine Wilson (early modern, ethics) from the CUNY Grad Center.  (The Arche Center is slated to continue, even without Wright, though it is possible some of the part-time fellows there will also end up moving to Aberdeen.)

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