When Did The President of Yale University -- Peter Salovey -- Know What About Pogge?

In an interview with the News before the open letter was published, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan, who was department chair when Pogge was hired, said what Pogge has admitted to doing is inappropriate and unprofessional. Kagan added that had accusations against Pogge been brought to his attention, he would have discussed them with the administration.-- Yale Daily News [HT Dailynous.]

At DailyNous, Justin Weinberg aptly noted:

So instead of saying “¬P,” Kagan says “P→Q.” That’s rather roundabout.

Indeed.

Kagan points to one of the central, institutional issues of the Pogge case that have not been fully explored by the media yet. There is converging evidence that some of our colleagues and administrators at Yale University had been alerted to accusations from his period at Columbia when he was being hired. (Recall: we now know he was sanctioned there.) Pogge himself has been reported as claiming that he brought it up when he was hired and that (in his words) Yale “took great pains to investigate what had happened” at Columbia. Perhaps, because of Columbia's confidentiality rules Yale never found out the whole truth about Pogge's behavior  there.

If I am not mistaken the current president of Yale University, Peter Salovey, was then, the Dean of Yale College and about to become Provost. Perhaps, it's about time somebody asks him, what he knew, and when?

Comments

[Alicia Raft]

I think that would be a wise direction of inquiry. Universities consistently deny knowledge of sexual harrassment and assaults, passing blame onto the victims who never recieve much beyond criticism and shame. I am interested in what measures Yale took during this "investigation" of the Columbia claims. Mr. Salovey has some 'splaining to do.