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New Philosophy Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced

Here.  Elected in the philosophy section:  Daniel Garber (Princeton), James Higginbotham (Southern California), Frances Myrna Kamm (Harvard), and Beatrice Longuenesse (NYU).  I'm pleased to see that someone at the AAAS is paying attention!  Congratulations to all!

ADDENDUM:  Confirming once again that with the AAAS, the 'rich get richer,' here's the breakdown of institutional affiliation of the 196 new Fellows:

Harvard University (17)

Princeton University (9)

University of Chicago (9)

California Institute of Technology (7)

Columbia University (7)

Stanford University (7)

New York University (6)

University of Pennsylvania (5)

Cornell University (4)

University of Wisconsin, Madison (4)

Yale University (4)

Johns Hopkins University (3)

Massachussetts Institute of Technology (3)

Northwestern University (3)

Ohio State University (3)

Purdue University (3)

University of California, Berkeley (3)

University of California, Los Angeles (3)

University of California, Santa Barbara (3)

University of California, Santa Cruz (3)

George Washington University (2)

University of Maryland, College Park (2)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2)

University of Texas, Austin (2)

University of Utah (2)

Schools with one Fellow each:  Boston University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rutgers University at New Brunswick, Brown University, University of Washington, State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Rochester, University of Virginia, Georgetown University, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of California at San Diego, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis-St. Paul, University of California at Riverside, Middlebury College, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Rockefeller University, Rice University, Wesleyan University, University of California at Davis, Arizona State University, University of Southern California, Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, Barnard College, Texas A&M University, University of Nevada, University of Tennessee, University of Oregon, and Emory University.

This list omits medical schools like the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, which usually have a couple of Fellows each year.

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