“This is old news”:http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S10/80/40G73/index.xml?section=announcements to most people I guess, but it was news to me.

bq. The French-language weekly news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur has named Princeton professors Kwame Anthony Appiah and Philip Pettit two of the 25 greatest thinkers in the world today.

bq. In its Dec. 29, 2004, issue, which celebrates its 40th anniversary, the magazine lauds Appiah as an “ambassador of universalism,” and hails Pettit as a “holistic individualist.” The full list includes other philosophers, social theorists and critics from across the globe.

Much deserved honours, and I’m glad to see analytic philosophers getting this kind of recognition in France (of all places!).