New York University Department of Philosophy

The New York University Department of Philosophy is ranked 1st in the US and 1st in the English-speaking world in the 2017-18 ranking of philosophy departments by The Philosophical Gourmet Report (as well as in the 2014, 2011, 2009, and 2006 rankings).[1] It is also ranked 1st in the world by the 2020 QS World University Rankings, and is internationally renowned.[2] It has particular strengths in epistemology, history of philosophy, logic, metaphysics, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of mind.[3]

New York University Department of Philosophy
Established1832
Parent institution
New York University,
Faculty of Arts and Science
(College of Arts & Science, Graduate School of Arts & Science)
ChairpersonPaul Boghossian
Address
5 Washington Pl
,
New York City
,
New York
,
10003
,
US
Websitephilosophy.fas.nyu.edu

The department offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy, as well as a minor in philosophy and a joint major in Language and Mind with the NYU Departments of Linguistics and Psychology.[4]

It is home to the New York Institute of Philosophy, a research center that supports multi-year projects, public lectures, conferences, and workshops in the field of philosophy, as well as outreach programs to teach New York City high school students interested in philosophy.[5]

The faculty and students have close relations with the philosophy department of Columbia University. Every year, NYU and Columbia philosophy graduate students organize the Annual NYU/Columbia Graduate Student Philosophy Conference.[6] Furthermore, doctoral students are able to cross-register to take courses at Columbia University, as well as at the other members of the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium (IUDC): Princeton University, CUNY Graduate Center, Rutgers University, Fordham University, Stony Brook University, and The New School.[7]

Within NYU, the department works especially closely with the School of Law, whose Center for Law and Philosophy hosts a weekly Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy. [8] Many former and current faculty members of the department have held or currently hold dual-appointments or affiliated professorships in philosophy and law, including Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Liam Murphy, Samuel Scheffler, Jeremy Waldron, and Kwame Anthony Appiah.

The department is located at 5 Washington Place, a historic building within the jurisdiction of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission near the border between the neighborhoods of NoHo and Greenwich Village. The interior of the building was completely renovated in 2007 by Steven Holl Architects, featuring design elements inspired by the writings of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, namely his Remarks on Colour.[9]

Prominent faculty members


Current faculty
  • Kwame Anthony Appiah, specializing in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of race, probability and decision theory
  • Jonathan Bain, specializing in philosophy of physics
  • Paul Boghossian, specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology
  • Ned Block, specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive science
  • David Chalmers, specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology
  • Ciann Dorr, specializing in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of physics
  • Hent de Vries, specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of religion
  • Hartry Field, specializing in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics
  • Kit Fine, specializing in logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language
  • Richard Foley, specializing in epistemology
  • Laura Franklin-Hall, specializing in philosophy of biology
  • Jane Friedman, specializing in epistemology
  • Don Garrett, specializing in early modern philosophy
  • Robert Hopkins, specializing in aesthetics, philosophy of mind
  • Paul Horwich, specializing in philosophy of language, metaphysics, Wittgenstein, philosophy of science
  • Dale Jamieson, specializing in environmental ethics
  • Anja Jauernig, specializing in Kant, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Philosophy of Science, Aesthetics, and Animal Ethics.
  • S. Matthew Liao, specializing in bioethics
  • Béatrice Longuenesse, specializing in Kant, Hegel, modern philosophy, philosophy of mind
  • Marko Malink, specializing in ancient philosophy, philosophical logic
  • Tim Maudlin, specializing in foundations of physics, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of science
  • Phillip Mitsis, specializing in ancient philosophy
  • Jessica Moss, specializing in ancient philosophy
  • Liam Murphy, specializing in legal philosophy, moral and political philosophy
  • John Richardson, specializing in Heidegger, Nietzsche, ancient philosophy
  • Samuel Scheffler, specializing in moral and political philosophy
  • Stephen Schiffer, specializing in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology
  • Sharon Street, specializing in ethics
  • Jeff Sebo, specializing in bioethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics
  • Tamsin Shaw, specializing in political philosophy, history of political thought, Nietzsche
  • Sharon Street, specializing in metaethics
  • Michael Strevens, specializing in philosophy of science, concepts, philosophical applications of cognitive science
  • Peter Unger, specializing in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics
  • J. David Velleman, specializing in ethics, moral psychology
  • Daniel Viehoff, specializing in political, legal, and moral philosophy
  • Jeremy Waldron, specializing in philosophy of law, social and political philosophy
  • Crispin Wright, specializing in philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology

Emeritus faculty
  • Frances Kamm, specializing in ethics
  • Thomas Nagel, specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of law, political philosophy, ethics
  • William Ruddick, specializing in philosophy of science and medicine, professional and applied ethics, bioethics

Notable former faculty
  • Raziel Abelson, specialized in ethics and ordinary language philosophy
  • Margaret Athelton, specialized in early modern period philosophy, philosophy of psychology, feminist philosophy
  • William Barrett, specialized in existentialist philosophy
  • James Burnham, specialized in political philosophy
  • Keith DeRose, specialized in epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, and history of modern philosophy
  • Ronald Dworkin, specialized in philosophy of law
  • Paul Edwards, specialized in ethics
  • Sidney Hook, specialized in philosophy of history, philosophy of education, political philosophy, ethics
  • Michael Lockwood, specialized in philosophy of mind
  • Ferdinand Lundberg, specialized in social philosophy
  • Kai Nielson, specialized in metaphilosophy, ethics, social and political philosophy
  • James Pryor, specialized in epistemology, philosophy of language
  • Theodore Sider, specialized in metaphysics and philosophy of language

Notable former visiting scholars

Notable alumni

Other philosophers at NYU

The following people are philosophers who hold faculty positions at New York University but are not affiliated with the Department of Philosophy.

References
  1. "The Philosophical Gourmet". Blackwell Publishing Philosophy. 2018.
  2. "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 – Philosophy". Top Universities.
  3. "NYU Department of Philosophy Webpage". NYU Philosophy Department Webpage.
  4. "Programs of Study". cas.nyu.edu.
  5. "New York Institute of Philosophy".
  6. "NYU/Columbia Graduate Student Philosophy Conference". 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-03-28.
  7. "Inter-University Doctoral Consortium".
  8. "Center for Law and Philosophy".
  9. "NYU Philosophy Department". Steven Holl Architects.
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