The Ethics and Political Philosophy Interest Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Selim Berker, the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He works on the foundations of normativity in all of its guises, including the … Read More
The Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Brian Hedden, a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He works in epistemology and decision theory, as well as related areas of ethics and political philosophy. Talk Title Algorithmic Monoculture Talk … Read More
The department invites all undergraduates to come to an orientation session in which students will be introduced to the Department of Philosophy and some of its people.
Join us for a three-day conference on Hermann Cohen’s “Ethics of Maimonides” organized by Michael Rosenthal and Ynon Wygoda.
Neil Sinhababu, an associate professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, works in ethics, Nietzsche, political philosophy, metaphysics, as well as philosophy of mind and action.
Rahul Kumar, a professor and department head at Queen’s University, primarily studies non-consequentialist ethical theory, with particular focus on the strengths and pitfalls of Scanlon’s contractualism.
Gina Schouten, a professor at Harvard, primarily studies issues of social and political philosophy and ethics. Her most sustained research projects concern political liberalism and political legitimacy, educational justice, and the gendered division of labor.
Zoë A. Johnson King, an assistant professor at Harvard, works primarily in ethics, metaethics, and epistemology. She primarily concerns herself with moral agency and moral responsibility, with a particular focus on praiseworthiness.
Ralph Wedgwood, a professor of Philosophy and the director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, works in ethics and epistemology, more specifically, in metaethics, practical reason, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics.
Curie Virág, a senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, works in early and medieval Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, specializing in the history of ethics, moral psychology, and emotions.
Hagop Sarkissian, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY, as well as a professor at CUNY’s Graduate Center, focuses his research on moral psychology, drawing on other relevant disciplines (evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, Chinese philosophy) to inform his work.
This year’s Roseman Lecture will be delivered by Niko Kolodny, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
