Now that it’s late September, some job application deadlines have already passed and apparently some interview invitations have been extended, I’d like to launch this season’s job-market reporting thread.

For those of you new to this, each year the Cocoon has two different job-market threads: one for job market discussion/commiseration, and another for reporting job-market news (interviews, on-campus invites, offers, rejections, etc.). As noted in previous years, the reason the Cocoon has two threads is simple: some people only want to discuss/commiserate but not hear about interviews, offers, etc., other people only want news, and other people still want both!

So, please feel free to bookmark or otherwise follow this thread throughout the job season (this fall and next spring), and post any news you have! Also, please do feel free to report on news for jobs in other departments that philosophers can be expected to apply to (political theory jobs in political science departments, AI-ethics jobs in interdisciplinary departments, etc.). Just make sure you specify the institution and department so that other readers and commentators don’t confuse them with jobs in philosophy departments.

Two quick reminders:

  1. This thread is only for reporting news on the market (i.e. reporting interviews, flyouts, offers, hires, and so on), so please, report away! If you would like to discuss the job-market, please comment on the discussion thread.
  2. Please adhere to the convention of beginning comments with a tag (e.g. “QUERY”, “UPDATE”) so that other readers can easily search the page for the type of comments they are most interested in. 

Permalinks to both job threads will remain on the right side-bar of the blog through the end of the job season. Because of Typepad’s functionality limitations (which only permits 100 comments before starting a new comment page), readers may elect to bookmark each new page of comments as each new page emerges. I recognize that it can be frustrating to scroll through page after page to get to new comments, and I think this is probably the best solution given Typepad’s functionality limitations.

Finally, commenters are asked to please remember and abide by the Cocoon’s supportive mission while reporting. Thanks, and best of luck to all on the market!

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135 responses to “Job market reporting thread (2026-27)”

  1. Anonymous

    Query: LSU New Orleans?

    1. Some Human

      Online interviews have been scheduled for LSU New Orleans.

  2. Anonymous

    Query: University of Glasgow Phil of Psych/Cog Sci?

  3. Anonymous

    Update: Loughborough lecturer in PPE rejection 25 September.

  4. Anonymous

    QUERY: Has anyone heard about the LSE Assistant Professor in Political Theory position in the Government Department?

  5. Anonymous

    QUERY: Peking University had an open call with two rounds (April and September), has anyone received an invitation for either of those rounds?

    Slightly non-philosophical: First-round interviews for Loyola Marymount, Christianity in Late Antiquity?

  6. Anonymous

    Mount Holyoke requested reference letters two working days after I submitted the app (deadline isn’t until the end of the month).

    1. Anonymous

      I also received this request shortly after submitting (about one day on my part). As is tradition, I am unsure if it means anything or happens to all candidates.

      1. Anonymous

        I just submitted yesterday and received the same request just ten minutes ago. So I can only assume that they do this for all candidates, but obviously I hope I’m wrong for all our sakes. Good luck!

  7. Antsy

    Query: anyone hear back from the Summer Program in Philosophy at Hamilton?

    1. Anonymous

      Didn’t the submission deadline just pass very recently? I’d give it a few more weeks!

    2. Anonymous

      Interviews were conducted this past week.

  8. Anonymous

    What happened to the 4 ACU lecturerships advertized earlier this year? I have not seen anyone getting appointed after interviews so I am wondering what happened

    1. Anonymous

      I know one person who was hired into one of the positions, so I assume they’ve been filled.

    2. Anonymous

      I know someone who was hired for one of the positions, so I assume they’ve been filled.

  9. Anonymous

    UPDATE: Zoom interview request from U. of St Thomas, business ethics

  10. Anonymous

    UPDATE: Zoom interview request, St Thomas U., business ethics

  11. Anonymous

    Interview request, Glasgow, AoS: Phil Psych/CogSci/Mind

  12. Anonymous

    UPDATE: Zoom interview request, Washington and Lee Asst. Prof. of Ethics

    1. Anonymous

      Is this the J. Martin Ramsey professorship position?

      Thanks

  13. Anonymous

    UPDATE: Insanely fast shortlist notification (deadline was two days ago) for Providence College, Asst. Prof in Philosophy of AI

    1. Anonymous

      Can I ask if you have a strong history of philosophy profile? Curious how much they wanted that vs phil AI

      1. Anonymous

        I have a decent teaching profile for history (have taught Chinese philosophy, can also teach early modern and early analytic/pragmatism), but my profile definitely emphasized AI, since that’s an AOS of mine and the AOS they requested.

      2. Anonymous

        I also got a shortlist notification for Providence…to answer your question I have a strong background in history of philosophy (early modern, 19/20 century) and work in AI from that perspective (i.e. the traditional philosophy of technology stuff).

      3. Anonymous

        UPDATE: Finalists selected for PC TT job in Philosophy of Technology.

  14. Anonymous

    Q: Fordham Business Ethics TT?

    1. Anonymous

      I haven’t heard anything.

      1. Anonymous

        There were interviews at least a week or two ago.

  15. Anonymous

    Q: Notre Dame PLS?

  16. Anonymous

    QUERY: Any news for CSU after initial interviews?

  17. Anonymous

    QUERY: Any news for CSU after the initial interviews?

  18. Anonymous

    Query: Colorado College

    1. Anonymous

      nothing so far!

      1. Anonymous

        any news on this?

  19. Anonymous

    Update: request for additional materials from Penn State (https://philjobs.org/job/show/32069)

    1. Anonymous

      I think this is standard for their screening process? I submitted to Penn 2 weeks ago and they requested materials a few days later, long before the deadline. Nothing since. Best of luck though!

      1. Anonymous

        My guess is it’s a sort of long-long list, where someone glances at some small set of criteria to make a first cut. Maybe teaching experience in Tech Ethics, or at least one Pub in the area, or something like that. I got the same thing.

      2. Anonymous

        Yup I think this is standard. I know a few people who got the same thing.

  20. Anonymous

    Query: Quinnipiac University

    1. Anonymous

      Nothing yet for me!

    2. Anonymous

      Nothing yet here either

  21. Anonymous

    PFO Resolution Research Scientist (Philosophy).

  22. Anonymous

    Update: Universität Tübingen has shortlisted and sent campus invites.

    Update: UIC Letters request.

    Query: WUSTL any updates on weird cluster hire thingy?

    1. Anonymous

      UIC’s deadline was yesterday… Wow, that’s fast.

      1. Anonymous

        I suspect these eventually made it to most people who applied: I got mine today.

      2. Anonymous

        I suspect everyone who applied will get these requests eventually if they haven’t already.

      3. Anonymous

        UIC pulled my letters too. Is it for all applicants or just those that made it to the next stage?

      4. Anonymous

        I got the UIC letters request too today. Did they just send it out to everyone or those that made it to the next stage?

      5. Anonymous

        How did you hear that your letters got pulled? I applied close to midnight on the 21st, haven’t heard anything.

    2. Anonymous

      Also got the UIC letters request just this afternoon. Not sure if it’s a standard thing.

    3. Anonymous

      Well, that’s a standard thing I guess. Everyone who applied will eventually get the request.

  23. Anonymous

    Update: Interview request from Stetson (Phil of law), application deadline isn’t until Nov 1 first though?

  24. Anonymous

    Query: Oxford Uehiro Postdoc in moral psychology?

  25. Anonymous

    Query: LSE Assistant professor in political theory in the Government Department?

  26. Anonymous

    Query: Did PSU ask for a complete dossier from all applicants?

  27. Anonymous

    Query: Furman University?

    1. Anonymous

      PFO received from Furman

  28. Anonymous

    Query: UW-Whitewater?

    1. Anonymous

      Nothing yet for me!

    2. Anonymous

      PFO from UW-Whitewater

  29. Anonymous

    UPDATE: Fly-outs scheduled for Washington & Lee, Assistant Professor of Ethics (Shepherd Program)

  30. Anonymous

    UPDATE: Letters requested from Carleton (phil AI).

    (The job ad said to expect this, so I suspect this will happen for everyone, rather than representing any kind of long list.)

  31. Anonymous

    UPDATE: Letters requested by Carleton (phil AI).

    (They said to expect this in the job ad, so figure this is pro forma rather than some kind of long-listing. But it did take a few days in-between applying and receiving the request.)

  32. Anonymous

    Update: PFO from LSE Government

  33. Anonymous

    UPDATE: PFO Florida Institute of Technology postdoc

  34. Anonymous

    Query: Smith TT in mind/language?

    1. Anonymous

      I am pretty sure that job is going to prioritize non-Western phil.

  35. Anonymous

    QUERY:

    • ANU TT Social and Political Philosophy?
    • U of Chicago TT Political Philosophy?
    1. Anonymous

      Nothing from Chicago so far.

    2. Anonymous

      Update: Interview request from ANU TT (ethics, social, political)

  36. Anon

    UPDATE: Penn State Interview Request (AI)

  37. Anonymous

    UPDATE: Duke Kunshan assistant professor interview request.

    1. Anonymous

      Congrats! Can you share something of your background? ABD/PhD; AOS/AOC; No. of pubs, etc. Thanks.

      1. Anonymous

        Defended last month, degree formally conferred in December. AOS: Mind/Epistemology/AI; AOC: Philosophy of science, chinese philosophy, phil lang. No. of pubs: 3, but two of them are random and not relevant to the job; most recent is a mind/epistemology paper in a top 3 journal. Extensive teaching portfolio (teaching heavy program.)

  38. Anonymous

    Aside: I was wondering what PFO stood for, thinking it is some kind of Fly Out, until Mr. Google illumined and made me chuckle.

  39. Anonymous

    Letters pulled for Davidson. Once again, not sure if this is the case for everybody.

    1. Anonymous

      Hasn’t happened for me, so probably a good sign for you

    2. Anonymous

      Hasn’t happened for me either.

  40. Anonymous

    QUERY: Austin College (TX)

  41. Anonymous

    UPDATE: zoom interview request, Furman University (AOS pre-19th c. history of philosophy)

  42. Anonymous

    PFO Furman

  43. Anonymous

    UPDATE: Zoom interview request, UW-Whitewater

  44. Anonymous

    Query: LMU Metaphysics/ Philosophy of Physics PostDoc?

  45. Anonymous

    Query: Middlebury TT in epistemology?

    1. Anonymous

      The deadline for this job was yesterday, the day you posted about it. Let’s not do this!

  46. Anon

    UPDATE: Zoom interview invite, Texas State (Ethics of Technology/ AI)

  47. Anonymous

    That feeling when the first PFO sinks in…

    1. Anonymous

      I’m sorry. :/ This might be too cruel and spooky to ask, but which school?

      1. Anonymous

        Furman.

  48. Anonymous

    colorado college?

  49. Anonymous

    colorado college?

  50. Anonymous

    Xavier University of Louisiana?

  51. Anonymous

    Did anybody not receive a letter pull from Loyola?

    1. Anonymous

      I did. I’m assuming they’ll pull for everyone.

    2. Anonymous

      I did. My guess is that it is automatic.

  52. Anonymous

    QUERY: Helsinki inquiry postdoc

  53. Anonymous

    Holyoke: Letters pulled. (Did everyone get theirs pulled too?)

    1. Anonymous

      Seems like it — I did

    2. Anonymous

      Not me 🙁

      1. Anonymous

        Don’t worry. Yours will be pulled eventually 🙂

      2. anonymous

        When did you submit your materials?

    3. Anonymous

      Submitted Nov 1; letters pulled Nov 2.

    4. Anonymous

      Revisiting this. Did anyone who submitted still not have their letters pulled?

      1. Anonymous

        Just to be clear, a day or two after submitting the application, we received an email from Mt. Holyoke Workday asking us to submit references. Letters were pulled from Interfolio immediately after submitting the references to Workday. I would double check to make sure you did not miss the email from Workday requesting references.

  54. Anonymous

    Query: Notre Dame (early modern) or Madison (modern British moral/political)?

  55. Anonymous

    Query: Any updates on the Oxford Uehiro Postdoc in Moral Psychology?

  56. Anonymous

    Query: Quinnipiac?

    1. Anonymous

      Silence over here

      1. Anonymous

        Same, nothing yet over here.

  57. Anonymous

    Probably too early, but any word from Georgetown’s postdoc/assistant prof position in race?

    1. Anonymous

      Yes. This is too early.

  58. Anonymous

    Hi all – just wanted to plug that the Philosophy Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, is hiring for a tenure-track position in Asian philosophy, and we encourage everyone with an interest in the position to apply! Those who applied for the position last year are welcome to apply again.

  59. Anonymous

    A very nice PFO from Resolution post zoom interview.

    1. Anonymous

      Same

      1. Anonymous

        Post initial interview, or post final stage interview?

  60. Anonymous

    I feel the compulsion to educate some of the newcomers in the local dialect here.

    PFO: “​Please ​F**​​k ​Off”

    STFO: “​Straight To ​Fly ​Out” (not, as per popular belief, “shut the f**k out”

    ERIC: “​Elaborate ​Ruse for an ​Internal ​Candidate”

    ​SERIC: “​Suspected ​Elaborate ​Ruse for an ​Internal ​Candidate”

    ​MSAHP: “Miscarried or ​Spontaneously ​Aborted ​Hiring ​Procedure”

    ​TDRSAEYLMDBA: “This Department Runs the Same Ad Every Year and Last Made a Hire During the Bush Administration”

    1. Anonymous

      This is good, I might encourage an occasional fine-grained distinction in PFO:

      UPFO: Unsolicited PFO, so maybe actually you reading this aren’t entirely screwed here

      SPFO: Solicited PFO, I asked papa and he said he’s not hiring me, and since you haven’t heard anything either……

  61. Anonymous

    Query: UC Berkeley Philosophy of Science/Philosophy of AI?

  62. Anonymous

    Query: Fordham Business School TT?

  63. Anonymous

    UPDATE: PFO from St Thomas (business ethics) after first round interview

  64. Anonymous

    Update: Interview request from Stetson (Phil of law)

  65. Anonymous

    Query: Barnard College

    1. Anonymous

      nothing yet for me

  66. Anonymous

    Query: Chicago 19th/20th C. European?

    Query: Smith College Mind/Language?

    1. Anonymous

      Fairly certain Smith will prioritize non-western

      1. Anonymous

        Why? Don’t be so sure.

      2. Anonymous

        Is this based on insider info? It wasn’t very emphasized in the job ad.

  67. Anonymous

    QUERY: Any updates on Colorado State University after the initial virtual interviews? It’s been about a month.

    1. Anonymous

      I haven’t heard anything since

    2. Anonymous

      I heard from someone that they extended campus visits a few weeks ago.

  68. Anonymous

    What does this have to do with the query?

    1. Anonymous

      Sorry, wrong thread: meant to reply to the earlier query re. Smith/Chicago

  69. anonymous

    Has Smith extended a campus visit?

  70. Anonymous

    Letters pulled by Kenyon College. Anybody else? Curious if they pulled everybody who’s applied.

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