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CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, NY. Asst. Prof., tenure-track. Starting July 1, 2010. AOS: Open. AOC: Open. Four courses/year. Thesis supervision. Some administrative work. Some summer work available. Cornell is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and educator. Send complete dossier (= letter of application, CV, letters of recommendation, written work) to: Search Committee, Sage School of Philosophy, 218 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 14853-3201. No applications by fax or email. Applications received by November 23, 2009 will be assured full consideration.

[The ad appears online in Jobs for Philosophers (183W, position #256), posted 10/9/09 <www.apaonline.org>, and will appear in the print version of JFP (184), 11/6/09]

Mark Fedyk

• The Philosophical Review Lectureship, Cornell University
• AOS: Philosophy of Science

Paul Kelleher

• Tenure-track assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Department of Medical History and Bioethics in the School of Medicine and Public Health)
• AOS: Ethics & Political Philosophy
• Previously: Postdoctoral fellowship in the Program of Ethics and Health at Harvard University

Jacob Klein

• Tenure-track assistant professor, Colgate University
• AOS: Ancient Philosophy

Daniel Koltonski

• 1-year visiting assistant professor, Haverford College
• AOS: Ethics & Political Philosophy

David Liebesman

• Tenure-track assistant professor, Boston University
• AOS: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics

Raul Saucedo

• 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University in conjunction with a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Research School of the Social Sciences at the Australian National University
• AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Sara Streett

• Adjunct instructor,  Marist University
• AOS: Political Philosophy

Look for Logos at clubfest in Barton Hall on August 30th. And watch for a new issue this fall.

Kyu Young Kim, a student in Mark Fedyk’s First-Year Writing Seminar Philosophical Problems (spring 09), has won an Adelphic Award from the Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines for his essay “Intrinsic and Instrumental Values.”

The Oxford Handbook of Plato, edited by Gail Fine, has recently been published by Oxford University Press <OUP page>. Accordiing to OUP:

The twenty-one newly commissioned articles in the Oxford Handbook of Plato provide in-depth and up-to-date discussions of a variety of topics and dialogues. The result is a useful state-of-the-art reference to the man many consider the most important philosophical thinker in history.

Nate Bulthuis has been awarded a Jacob K. Javitz Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Education.

Karen Bennett and Andrew Chignell are recent recipients of the prestigious Robert and Helen Appel Fellowhip awarded by Cornell to outstanding young scholars working in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Eminent philosopher Thomas Nagel (Cornell BA ‘58), Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University will deliver the annual Kretzmann Philosophy Lecture for Undergraduates on Friday, April 18 at 4:30 pm in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. The title of his lecture is Public Education and Intelligent Design: A Dissenting View.

The Provost’s awards for distinguished research recognize younger tenured faculty whose scholarly achievements are combined with continuing commitment to Cornell.  The 2008 Provost’s award for research in the humanities has been awarded to Charles Brittain for his groundbreaking translation of Cicero’s Academica,  the most important source for the ancient philosophy of skepticism which developed among  the successors of Plato.  Reviewers wrote:  “Eminently useful, well thought-out, and expertly executed”  “There is no other publication on the Academica which sets out the philosophical issues of this text with great clarity while at the same time providing an accurate sense of chronology in close contact with the sources.”  Especially praised is the translation’s accessiblity to philosophical readers, with a reliable introduction on its context and textual history, which for the first time gives the study of ancient skepticism a place in the undergraduate philosophical curriculum.  Brittain came to Cornell as an Assistant Professor in 1996, and is now Professor of Classics and Philosophy, and a member of the program in Medieval Studies; he has served as Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in Classics, and is currently Department Chair.

Jacob Klein and Daniel Koltonski have been awarded Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation fellowships for 2008-09 by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.