I’m pleased to announce that Cornell University has hired “Matti Eklund”:http://spot.colorado.edu/~eklundm/home.htm.

Matti graduated from MIT in 2000 and has in just a few years produced some of the most important contemporary work on metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of logic. His work on how many philosophically important concepts may be constituted by inconsistent inference rules has opened up new lines of inquiry in personal identity and vagueness, and helped immensely in clarifying some traditional debates about theories of truth. And as a quick glance at his “online papers”:http://spot.colorado.edu/~eklundm/papers.htm shows, he continues to be incredibly productive, extending his work into meta-ethics and debates about the foundations of metaphysics. Right now there is no department in the world that can match Cornell’s collection of young “lemmings”:http://tar.weatherson.org/archives/004008.html (at least if you precisify _young_ in such a way that Rutgers doesn’t beat us;) and Matti is a significant addition to our department. We are _very_ pleased to welcome him on board!