The Bertrand Russell Professorship

In the official words of the Cambridge University Reporter,

The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. … (3) That the Professorship of Philosophy (1896) be retitled as the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy.

This means that when my colleague Simon Blackburn retires at the end of next academic year, his successor — and because we have raised funding for the chair, the post will indeed be filled, even in these straightened times — his successor will glory in a...