The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that at its meeting last fall, the APA board of officers elected Prof. R. Lanier Anderson the association’s next board chair. Anderson, who will succeed Prof. Dominic McIver Lopes of the University of British Columbia, will begin his three-year term on July 1, 2023.
R. Lanier Anderson is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Stanford University. He was member-at-large of the APA board of officers from 2018 to 2021; he has also served on the APA finance committee, the Pacific Division nominating committee, and the Pacific Division program committee. Anderson was executive director of the North American Nietzsche Society (NANS) from 2015 to 2021, and chair of the NANS program committee from 2004 to 2021; a member of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and Fulbright Program screening committees; and Senior Association Dean for the Humanities and Arts at Stanford University. He is a member of the American Society of Aesthetics and the North American Kant Society, as well as a member of the editorial boards of the European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Nietzsche-Studien, and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Anderson says,
I am honored by this opportunity to serve the APA, an organization which has done so much for my own career through its work to support philosophers and advance the place of philosophy in the culture. I deeply appreciate the leadership of Dom Lopes, Amy Ferrer, and the board in guiding our association through the pandemic, and I will do my best to live up to their example. The challenges of the coming years will be significant, and we can meet them only together, devoting the APA’s resources to address the needs of all philosophers, across the whole diverse range of our discipline today.
Dominic McIver Lopes, chair of the board of officers, says,
The APA is surely going to benefit from Lanier Anderson’s dedication to scholarship and teaching, his deep administrative experience at Stanford, and his wise and gracious leadership style. Please join me in thanking him—and supporting his efforts on our behalf.
