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Big year for philosophers at the British Academy

Four have been elected as Fellows:  the new regular Fellows are John Gardner, the Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, and John Hawthorne, the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, also at Oxford (Hawthorne is also a part-time Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California); the two new Corresponding Fellows are Philip Pettit (Princeton/ANU) and Robert Stalnaker (MIT, where he is on phased retirement, while also being a regular half-time visitor at Columbia).  In addition, the political theorist Cecile Laborde at UCL was also elected a Fellow.

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