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Seven philosophers elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

They are:  Cora Diamond (Virginia, emerita), John Martin Fischer (UC Riverside), Jim Joyce (Michigan), Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook, emerita), Gideon Rosen (Princeton), Paul Taylor (UCLA), and Catherine Wilson (U of York [UK]).  Professors Diamond and Fischer were long overdue!   (Professor Diamond was so overdue that I had assumed she was a Fellow for many years already!)

(For some background, see this earlier post.)

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