January 8, 1999

4 Professors Secede From Irvine's Philosophy Department; Geneticist Brings Human-Cell Collection From Indiana U. to Rutgers

By ALISON SCHNEIDER and VINCENT KIERNAN

Feel like your intellectual agenda is getting short shrift? Secession might be the answer. That's what members of the philosophy department at the University of California at Irvine decided.

Four professors who focus on the philosophy of science recently defected from the department and are setting up shop on their own. The splinter group includes two senior members of the department, Penelope Maddy and Brian