Really a last update before I leave for Chicago. The papers blog won’t be updated until the weekend, but hopefully will be updated then. Sorry about the delays.

Since it had come up here before, I wanted to mention how well my old employer Brown is doing on the hiring market “according to Brian Leiter’s reports”:http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/philosophy_offe.html. So far they have kept Nomy Arpaly from leaving for Michigan, kept Chris Hill from leaving for Arizona, and hired Richard Heck away from Harvard. The only loss is Jim Van Cleve did leave his half-time position to go full-time at USC. There’s not many people in philosophy I respect more than people like Jim who can do first-rate historical work as well as first-rate work on contemporary philosophy, so I think that’s a big loss, but it was hardly stable to be half-time on one coast and half-time on another. And an offer to David Estlund is still outstanding as far as I know. (I don’t have any private knowledge here – I’m just going on what Brian Leiter reports.)

But winning hiring tussles with Oxford (over Justin Broackes), Michigan, Harvard and Arizona in a year is excellent work, and says good things about the future of the program. It’s obviously a little disconcerting when just about all one’s young faculty get offers at once, but the important thing is to be able to keep them all, and Brown is doing well at that.