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Milestones
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1998
Arché is funded with Crispin Wright providing the resources from his five-year Leverhulme Personal Research
Professorship.
1999
Stewart Shapiro (O'Donnell Professor, Ohio State) and Graham Priest
(Boyce Gibson Professor, Melbourne) are appointed to continuing one-quarter time Professorial Fellowships.
2000
The Centre is awarded a five-year AHRC research project grant for The Logical and Metaphysical Foundations of Classical Mathematics,
led by Crispin Wright but involving--in a manner then unprecedented in contemporary philosophy--a research team including experienced members of differing, complementary ranges of philosophical,
logical and mathematical skills, and outstanding younger (postdoctoral and postgraduate) researchers.
The further award of a five-year British Academy Networks grant brings researchers outside St Andrews into the
Foundations project.
The Academy provides 50% of the costs associated with twice-yearly weekend workshops at which research on Foundations issues by local team members and
scholars elsewhere can be communicated and tested.
Eventually extended to an end-date of May 31st 2006, the Foundations project not merely greatly surpasses what solitary
researchers on the same range of issues might have accomplished, but establishes a new mode of research training for early career philosophers and an
original paradigm, now officially part of the Centre's mission, of collaborative philosophical research.
2001
Arché's first PhD are students admitted to the Foundations project.
2002
The Centre was awarded a five year AHRC Phase One Research Centres grant.
Two new three-year projects, on Modality (2003-5) and Vagueness (2004-6), are launched on the
established model, designed to complement each other and the Foundations project within a larger investigation concerning Quinean Empiricism.
An enlarged in-house research group is established comprising six project postdoctoral fellows, the two professorial fellows, seven project PhD students,
and project leaders Bob Hale
(then Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Modality) and
Crispin Wright (Foundations and Vagueness), who now have
opportunities for fruitful interaction under the aegis of a broader, interlinked programme of philosophical concerns.
2003
A newly acquired award of a three-year Leverhulme Trust International Networks grant of c. £70,000
funds twice-yearly workshops for Vagueness and Modality on the model established by the
British Academy Foundations network.
Crispin Wright assumes full-time Directorship of the Centre.
2004
The two original postdoctoral fellows in the Foundations project and one in the Modality project are appointed to Assistant Professorships at
North American Universities.
Carrie Jenkins appointed the first Executive Director of the Centre.
Campaign launched to attract additional (including visiting) PhD students, and externally funded postdoctoral fellows to the Centre, and to
forge standing research partnerships with overseas institutions.
2005
Two additional postdoctoral fellows (with, respectively, 2-year Spanish Ministry of Education and 3-year British Academy funding) and two new
St Andrews-registered PhD students are recruited.
Three visiting PhD students (two from Spain, one from Germany) enrol for periods ranging from two to twelve months.
Five of first generation of Arché PhD students submit dissertations. One is appointed to a permanent lectureship at Leeds, and four to
postdoctoral fellowships (two at Arché, one at UCLA, one at Leeds).
The centre is awarded Leverhulme Trust research grant of c. £115,000 over two years to produce a first complete
English translation of Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik.
Prof. Martin Davies (Australian National University) and Crispin Wright are awarded a three-year
Australian Research Council Discovery Scheme award of c. £100,000, for a collaborative project on
Epistemic Warrant, thus forging the Centre's first formal institutional Research Partnership.
Informal graduate student exchange, waiving tuition fees but retaining all normal academic supports, including one-one supervision, is initiated with
New York University.
A full time Arché administrator and secretary is appointed (Ms Sharon Coull), bringing the permanent
administrative staffing of the Centre to three (Director, Executive Director, Administrator)
2006
Six new PhD students are admitted to the Centre.
Jessica Brown (formerly Reader in philosophy at Bristol University) and
Herman Cappelen (formerly Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo and Fellow of Somerville College,
Oxford) are appointed to the first full-time permanent professorships in the Centre.
Martin Smith is appointed Executive Director in succession to Carrie Jenkins.
Crispin Wright is awarded a five-year AHRC research grant of
c. £850,000, for a collaborative project on Basic Knowledge.
Two former PhD students in the Vagueness and Modality projects are appointed to permanent lectureships at Leeds.
2007
A ten-year collaborative research partnership is established with the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature
at the University of Oslo, under the aegis of the latter's Centre of Excellence award by the Norwegian Research Council.
One former regular visiting graduate student in the Modality project and a current postdoctoral research fellow in the
Grundgesetze translation project are appointed to permanent positions at Stirling.
A former PhD student in the Vagueness project is appointed to a five-year Basic Knowledge project postdoc position.
Crispin Wright and Herman Cappelen are awarded a five-year
AHRC research grant of c. £990,000, for a collaborative project on
Contextualism and Relativism.
Francois Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), Jonathan Schaffer (ANU),
Jason Stanley (Rutgers), and Brian Weatherson (Rutgers) are appointed to continuing one-quarter time Professorial Fellowships.
2008
Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen are awarded a four-year
AHRC research grant of c. £900,000, for a collaborative project on
Philosophical Methodology.
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