Karen Neander, an Australian philosopher of mind and biology, has moved to Duke. There's a nice press release about it here.
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Thanks for the heads-up, John - I look forward to meeting her.
I know Karen from my grad school days at Johns Hopkins and can say that she is not only an incredibly good philosopher, but one of the kindest, nicest, most personable folks we have in the profession. Please say hi to her from Steve Gimbel if you get the chance.
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