And, by extension, for upstate New York. “Brian Leiter reports”:http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/001357.html that “Mark Heller”:http://www.smu.edu/philosophy/hellerbio.htm has accepted a job offer at Syracuse. The report doesn’t say when he’ll be starting, but whenever he arrives he will be another good addition to the philosophical community in, what will be, my next of the woods.

UPDATE: “Orange Philosophy”:http://mt.ektopos.com/orangephilosophy/archives/000399.html has more, including the news that Mark will indeed be starting this Fall.