New York University Department of Philosophy

The New York University Department of Philosophy was 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] 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, as well as outreach programs to teach New York City high school students interested in philosophy.[5]

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

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 the Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy on a weekly basis during the fall semester of each academic year.[8] Many former and current faculty members of the department have held or currently hold dual-appointments in philosophy and law, including Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Liam Murphy, Samuel Scheffler, Jeremy Waldron, and Kwame Anthony Appiah. Other research centers affiliated with the department are the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness and the Center for Bioethics.[9]

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.[10]

Current faculty

(This list includes affiliated faculty notable enough to have an individual article in Wikipedia in addition to all regular faculty)

  • Kwame Anthony Appiah, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of race, probability and decision theory
  • Ned Block, philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive science
  • Paul Boghossian, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology
  • David Chalmers, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology
  • Cian Dorr, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of physics
  • Hent de Vries, metaphysics, philosophy of religion
  • Hartry Field, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics
  • Kit Fine, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language
  • Laura Franklin-Hall, philosophy of biology
  • Jane Friedman, epistemology
  • Don Garrett, early modern philosophy
  • Robert Hopkins, aesthetics, philosophy of mind
  • Paul Horwich, philosophy of language, metaphysics, Wittgenstein, philosophy of science
  • Dale Jamieson, environmental ethics
  • Anja Jauernig, Kant, early modern philosophy, 19th and early 20th century German philosophy, history of philosophy of science, aesthetics, and animal ethics
  • Marko Malink, ancient philosophy, philosophical logic
  • Matthew Mandelkern, philosophy of language, semantics, philosophy of cognitive science
  • S. Matthew Liao, bioethics
  • Tim Maudlin, foundations of physics, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of science
  • Jessica Moss, ancient philosophy
  • John Richardson, Heidegger, Nietzsche, ancient philosophy
  • Samuel Scheffler, moral and political philosophy
  • Stephen Schiffer, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology
  • Jeff Sebo, bioethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics
  • Sharon Street, ethics
  • Michael Strevens, philosophy of science, concepts, philosophical applications of cognitive science
  • Peter Unger, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics
  • Daniel Viehoff, political, legal, and moral philosophy
  • Jeremy Waldron, philosophy of law, social and political philosophy
  • Crispin Wright, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology

Emeritus faculty
  • Richard Foley, epistemology
  • Frances Kamm, ethics
  • Béatrice Longuenesse, Kant, Hegel, modern philosophy, philosophy of mind
  • Thomas Nagel, philosophy of mind, philosophy of law, political philosophy, ethics
  • William Ruddick, philosophy of science and medicine, professional and applied ethics, bioethics
  • J. David Velleman, ethics, moral psychology

Notable former faculty

Notable former visiting scholars

Notable alumni

Other philosophers at NYU

The following people are notable 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. "Centers and Projects".
  10. "NYU Philosophy Department". Steven Holl Architects.
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