• Jacob Ross was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in Spring 2012.
• Mark Schroeder was promoted to Full Professor in Fall 2011; Gideon Yaffe was promoted to Full Professor in Fall 2010.
• Stephen Finlay has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2012-13 to finish his book on normative language.
• Scott Soames will be giving the Hempel Lectures at Princeton in Spring 2013.
• The Philosopher's Annual has selected a paper by Jacob Ross ("Sleeping Beauty, Countable Additivity, and Rational Dilemmas") as one of the ten best philosophy papers of 2010. This is the third consecutive year a USC philosopher has received this honor, with Mark Schroeder's papers recognized for 2008 and 2009.
• James Higginbotham is one of four philosophers elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in April 2011. He joins Scott Soames, who was elected to the Academy in 2010.
• Scott Soames was named Distinguished Professor by the USC President in February 2011.
• Jim Van Cleve has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center to devote 2011-12 to completing a book on Thomas Reid. He will spend at least part of the year at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina.
• The American Philosophical Association has awarded Mark Schroeder the 2010 Article Prize for his paper "How Expressivists Can and Should Solve their Problem about Negation", as the best article published in the previous two years.
• The American Philosophical Association has awarded Gideon Yaffe the 2011 biennial Berger Memorial Prize for his paper "Excusing Mistakes of Law", as outstanding paper in the philosophy of law.

School of Philosophy graduate student news:

• John Kwak has received the 2012 USC Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
• Lewis Powell has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Buffalo, SUNY, beginning in 2012-2013.
• Geoff Georgi has been appointed Assistant Professor at West Virginia University, beginning in 2012-2013.
• Eduardo Villanueva has been appointed Lecturer at Universidad de Lima, in Lima, Peru, beginning in 2012-2013.
• Julia Staffel has received the USC Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2012-2013.
• Shyam Nair has received the Russell Fellowship for academic year 2012-2013.