Keith DeRose has a senior offer from Notre Dame! This is good news! Keith is an excellent epistemologist, and given the current climate over at Yale, it would not be worth it for an epistemologically inclined student to apply to Yale just to work with him. The department is currently down to ten members, only four of which are working in M&E. If Keith moved to ND, he would make himself much more accessible (though perhaps he doesn't want that). Brian Leiter reports here:
...now comes word that they have made a senior offer to Keith DeRose (epistemology, philosophy of language, early modern, philosophy of religion) at Yale, who may also be about to receive the prize for "most big ticket offers in the shortest period of time" (in the last several years, he has declined offers from Arizona, Cornell, and Rutgers). I wouldn't be surprised if Keith accepts the Notre Dame offer.
DeRose would no doubt be a very welcome addition to the ND department, which will likely be losing some of their preeminent epistemologists sometime in the near future. Just how much longer will Audi and Plantinga stick around? To maintain hand, they need to cut a few sweet deals. I'm hoping he accepts. (Can you imagine what Rutgers would now look like to an epistemologist if Keith had accepted over there?)
Well I don't think Plantinga or Audi are in any danger of leaving ND, especially since Audi just got there from Nebraska. Unless you meant leaving in different sense like dying. In which case my understanding is that Plantinga is healthy, and Audi isn't that old.
Posted by: Matthew Mullins | Friday, 17 December 2004 at 05:35 PM