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Three more senior appointments for the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne…

…for their Dianoia Institute of Philosophy:  Dmitri Gallow (philosophy of science) from the University of Pittsburgh will join as Senior Research Fellow (equivalent to Associate Professor); Clayton Littlejohn (epistemology) from King's College, London will join as Professor; and Gillian Russell (philosophy of language) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill will join as Professor.   They have also made two "Honorary Professor" appointments of faculty who will be in residence roughly one month per year:  Miriam Schoenfield (epistemology), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin; and EmilyThomas (early modern philosophy, metaphysics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham.

ADDENDUM:  Earlier ACU appointments noted here and here.

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