The Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario has appointed Timothy Bayne (philosophy of mind and cognitive science) from the University of Manchester to an Endowed Chair in the Philosophy of Neuroscience, effective summer 2015 and on a fractional basis; Bayne will also remain at Manchester at least until 2018, where he will continue as Director of his ERC project, "The Architecture of Consciousness."  In addition, the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Applied Math have jointly appointed Markus Mueller to a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in the Foundations of Physics; he will come in at the rank of Assistant Professor, also in summer 2015.  He was previously part of physics research groups at the University of Heidelberg and the Perimeter Institute.