We have some excellent news to report here at Cornell. “Karen Bennett”:http://www.princeton.edu/~kbennett/, currently at Princeton, has agreed to join the Sage School starting in Fall semester this year. Karen has produced “some impressive works”:http://www.princeton.edu/~kbennett/papers.html in philosophy of mind and in metaphysics. See, for example, her papers on “actualism”:http://philreview.dukejournals.org/content/vol114/issue3/ and “the exclusion problem”:http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/nous/37/3. So we’re very excited that she agreed to move to Cornell.

Cornell is starting to specialise in hiring people at or around tenure time. In recent years it’s hired Delia Graff Fara, Tamar Gendler, me, Matti Eklund, Michelle Kosch and now Karen Bennett. That’s a pretty good list I’d say, even if the first two people on it have since been lured away. There has been a lot of discussion around the places about the excellent people Cornell has recently lost, but those we’ve hired are pretty talented too. Of course as well as the people listed here we’ve hired Nico Silins and Derk Pereboom just recently, and Andrew Chignell not long ago, so it’s not just at the tenure stage that we’re hiring well.

I should note that this news is a little old by blog standards, since Karen agreed to join the department last week. But this happened while I was away – while I was stuck on the clogged Pennsylvania highways the day after the big snowstorm – so I’ve only just had the chance to announce it now.