Faculty Moves

Amy Allen (Dartmouth) to Penn State

Amy Allen, currently Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, will become head of the Department of Philosophy at Penn State, starting July, 2015. Professor Allen works in Continental philosophy, particularly critical social theory, poststructuralism, and feminist theo..

Joshua Cohen to Join Berkeley Faculty

Joshua Cohen, who had held appointments at MIT and Stanford before recently moving to Apple University, will be joining the University of California, Berkeley as a Distinguished Senior Fellow in its School of Law, Department of Philosophy, and Department of Political Science, starting July 1, 2015. According to a notice on the UC Berkeley Philosophy Department web p..

Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook) to Penn State

Eduardo Mendieta, currently professor and chair of philosophy at Stony Brook, will take up a position as professor of philosophy at Penn State, starting during the summer of 2015. Professor Mendieta works on critical philosophy of race, Latin American philosophy, the Frankfurt School, and issues relating to religion, globalization, global justice, and animality. The..

New Hires at Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario Department of Philosophy has made two new hires. Timothy Bayne, currently at the University of Manchester, has accepted a position as full professor in Western’s Department of Philosophy, as an Endowed Chair in the Philosophy of Neuroscience, starting in the summer of 2015. He works mainly in philosophy of mind and cognitive scie..

New Hires at University of Oslo

Herman Cappelen, currently Arche Chair at the university of St Andrews and Director of the Arche Philosophical Research Centre, has accepted a position as professor at the University of Oslo, starting August 2015. In Oslo, Cappelen will also be a research director at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN). He will retain a part-time continuing position at..

Whiting from Toronto to Pittsburgh

Jennifer Whiting, currently at the University of Toronto, has accepted an offer to become professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, starting January 2015. Professor Whiting has written extensively on ancient philosophy; her research interests include metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of mind, both ancient and modern. (via Anil Gupta)

Jill North and Ted Sider from Cornell to Rutgers

Jill North and Ted Sider, both currently at Cornell, will be taking up positions in the department of philosophy at Rutgers University. North, who works in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics, will be associate professor of philosophy there. Sider, who works in metaphysics and philosophy of language, will hold the department’s new Mellon Ch..