<p>Oops, I meant at Harvard, corranged. I edited my post to show that.</p>
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"Harvard never promotes from within," she told us, "or almost never. Especially in the humanities, junior faculty never get tenure."
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<p>Such rubbish.</p>
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Susanna Siegel (philosophy of mind and language) has been awarded tenure by Harvard University. In addition, the University has approved a tenured offer to Sean Kelly (philosophy of mind, phenomenology), who last year was turned down for tenure at Princeton University.
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it's clearly time to stop saying that "no one gets tenure at Harvard," which used to be (almost always) the case during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. In fact, the last four young philosophers to come up for tenure in the Harvard Philosophy Department in the last half-dozen years--Richard Heck (who has since left for Brown), James Pryor (who left for Princeton, and then NYU), Alison Simmons, and now Susanna Siegel--have all received tenure, a rate of tenure far higher than Princeton's, or any other top department's in recent memory. The era in which Harvard (or Princeton) could expect to appoint the top established senior faculty from elsewhere is clearly over, and Harvard Philosophy, at least, now plainly recognizes the need to promote its best junior faculty.
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<p>Edit: Paltry secondary sources on this matter will not suffice, especially when they do not correspond with the facts.</p>
<p>Edit: Notice how the last two tenured offers were for specialists in the philosophy of mind. I wonder what that could mean...</p>
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<p>a few current Harvard profs who have received tenure from within Harvard in the last few years. It is by no means an exhaustive list.</p>
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<p>Add Marc Hauser in psychology, an extremely well-liked young prof (I took his popular class "Sex"). Two of my close friends worked as his research assistants, and one of those is now completing a PhD in clinical psych at Yale.</p>
<p>Hanna-Sex is the class I was talking about that's curved to a B+. Hauser is definitely a nice + brilliant guy (although I wasn't a fan of his book). I tried to get in his "non human primate lab" this semester, but they didn't have room.</p>
<p>Oh, OK, Just_Forget. That's certainly an interesting difference, if consistent.</p>
<p>Marite: I most certainly never intended to imply that Harvard was the only offender, nor that it was the worst. You are right, however, that it is getting a large amount of criticism for arguing over it, perhaps unfairly. The question present on this thread, however, was whether or not it exists, and it unquestionably does, however egregious it is. Of course, I have to say I find the integrity of the Harvard faculty outstanding, if they have the bravery to publicly acknowledge the issue.</p>