I thought this, the latest Leiter mailing, was fairly amusing. (My emphasis throughout).

(1) Tamar Szabo Gendler (epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of psychology), currently at Syracuse University, has accepted the tenured offer from Cornell, to begin fall 2004. In addition, Zoltan Gendler Szabo at Cornell has turned down the offer from NYU Linguistics and Philosophy.

(2) The rational choice theorist and political philosopher Edward McClennen, who is currently LSE Centennial Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics, has accepted a senior offer from Syracuse University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

(3) The eminent Kant scholar Henry Allison, currently at Boston University, will leave BU to take up a half-time appointment at the University of California at Davis beginning in fall 2004. Allison is also an emeritus professor at the University of California at San Diego.

(4) The distinguished political and legal philosopher Leslie J. Green will now be a regular visiting professor of law *and* philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, beginning in Spring 2004. (He had already been part-time in the law school at Texas.) The rest of the time Green is at York University, Toronto.

(5) Berkeley has made tenured offers to John Campbell, the Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at Oxford, and Alva Noe (philosophy of mind) at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Noe also has offers from Tufts University and York University, Toronto.

If Eddie and Leslie and distinguished, and Hank is eminent, what are Tamar, Zoltan, John and Alva? Chopped liver? Seriously, losing Tamar is a big loss for Syracuse (and a big gain for Cornell), but the news about McClennen is a positive for a couple of reasons. The Maxwell school at Syracuse is very strong, and it makes sense to try and be as attached to it as possible.

Leiter also notes that an illegal invasion of Iraq is about to take place.