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More senior appointments for KCL: Adamson, Beaney

In addition to the moral philosopher David Owens, King's College, London has also made part-time appointments at the Professorial level of Peter Adamson (late ancient and Islamic philosophy) from Munich (he was previously full-time at KCL) and Michael Beaney (history of analytic philosophy) from York.

KCL has come a long way from the crisis of five years ago, and, happily, it's clear they are investing in their outstanding philosophy department.

(Thanks to Clayton Littlejohn for the information.)

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