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Department of Philosophy


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Carol Rovane, Ph.D.
712B Philosophy
Tel: 212.854.8618


Director of Graduate Studies: Achille Varzi, Ph.D.
702 Philosophy
Tel: 212.854.3531


Dissertation Sponsors

David Albert:
Professor, Ph.D., Rockefeller, 1981
Interests: Philosophical problems of modern physics, philosophy of quantum mechanics, philosophy of space and time, philosophy of science
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stephanie Beardman:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Rutgers, 2000
Interests: Ethics, moral psychology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Macalaster Bell:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., North Carolina, 2005
Interests: Ethics, social and political philosophy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bernard Berofsky:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1963
Interests: Metaphysics, ethics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Akeel Bilgrami:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1983
Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Taylor Carman:
Associate Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Stanford, 1993
Interests: Modern European philosophy: phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, especially Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty; 19th-century philosophy, especially Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John Collins:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1991
Interests: Metaphysics, epistemology, decision theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Arthur C. Danto:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1952
Interests: Thought, feeling, philosophy of art, theory of representations, philosophical psychology, Hegel's aesthetics, Merleau-Ponty, Schopenhauer
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jon Elster:
Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences, Ph.D., Paris, 1972
Interests: Theory of rational choice, theory of distributive justice, constitution-making, theory of rational choice, history of political thought, empirical studies of justice, emotions and social theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alan Gabbey:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Queen's University (Ireland), 1964
Interests: Renaissance and early modern philosophy, Descartes, Spinoza, the Cambridge Platonists, history and philosophy of science
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Haim Gaifman:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1962
Interests: Probability theory, logic, philosophy of language
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lydia Goehr:
Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1987
Interests: Philosophy of music; aesthetics; critical theory; and 19th- and 20th-century philosophy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kent Greenawalt:
Affiliated Professor (Law), LL.B., Columbia, 1963
Interests: Philosophy of law
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jeffrey Helzner:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 2003
Interests: Decision theory, logic
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Patricia Kitcher:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1974
Interests: Kant's theoretical philosophy, philosophy of psychology, Freud
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Philip Kitcher:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1974
Interests: Philosophy of science, biology and mathematics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Isaac Levi:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1957
Interests: Philosophy of ccience, epistemology, probability and induction, rational choice, social choice, value conflict, theories of belief change, Peirce studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Katalin Makkai:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Harvard, 2001
Interests: Aesthetics, Kant, Wittgenstein
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wolfgang Mann:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1987
Interests: Ancient philosophy in all its periods, 19th-century German philosophy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Christia Mercer:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1989
Interests: Philosophy and feminism, Renaissance and 16th-century philosophy; philosophical theology; ancient philosophy; medieval philosophy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Frederick Neuhouser:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Columbia, 1988
Interests: 19th-century philosophy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Christopher Peacocke:
Professor, D.Phil., Oxford, 1979
Interests: Philosophy of mind and psychology, philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joseph Raz:
Affiliated Professor (Law), D.Phil., Oxford, 1967
Interests: Legal, moral, and political philosophy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Daniel Rothschild:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2006
Interests: Philosophy of language and linguistics, philosophy of mind and cognitive science
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Carol Rovane:
Professor, Ph.D., Professor, 1983
Interests: Metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics; history of philosophy: Descartes, Kant, the Pragmatists
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Sidorsky:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1962
Interests: Political philosophy and ethical theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1967
Interests: 19th-century literature; Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Achille Varzi:
Professor, Ph.D., Toronto, 1994
Interests: Logic and metaphysics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Katja Vogt:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Munich, 1996
Interests: Ancient philosophy; ethics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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