Philosophy Updates
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In Memoriam: David Weberman (1955-2026)
(MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY, I PUBLISHED IT, BUT NOT TO THIS BLOG!) I was very sorry to learn from Kati Farkas that Professor Weberman has died. He was a serious scholar of 20th-century Continental philosophy, especially hermeneutics, who taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Georgia State University, and then for the last…
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Garcia from Free University to Frankfurt
Manon Garcia (feminist philosophy, Continental philosophy), currently a tenure-track professor at the Free University of Berlin, has acccepted a tenured appointment as professor of philosophy (a W3 professorship in the German system) at Goethe University Frankfurt, to begin March 1. (Professor Garcia is under contract to write the book on Simone de Beauvoir in my…
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Ebert from Stirling to Salzburg
Philip Ebert (epistemology, history of analytic philosophy), currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, will take up the Professorship of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Salzburg, effective February 1, 2026.
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Menn from McGill to Toronto
Stephen Menn (ancient and medieval philosophy [including Islamic philosophy]), currently at McGill University, will take up a Chair in History of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, effective January 2026. (He will continue to be an Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he spends the summer term each year.) Professor Menn tells…
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In Memoriam: Andrew Lugg (1942-2025)
Professor Lugg, who spent most of his career at the University of Ottawa, where he was emeritus, was perhaps best-known for his work on Wittgenstein, although also wrote in philosophy of science and on other figures in the history of analytic philosophy. Comments are open for remembrances from those who know Professor Lugg or for…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…