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GRADUATE ADMISSIONS UPDATE - JULY 22, 2024

The Columbia Philosophy Department, after a highly successful PhD admissions exercise in 2024 that recruited a large incoming class, is pausing PhD admissions in the academic year 2024-25. PhD admissions will resume in 2025-26. We continue to welcome admissions for the MA in Philosophy and the MA in Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Philosophy at Columbia University

Home to a distinguished tradition of philosophical research and teaching, the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University provides a comprehensive academic atmosphere for pursuing advanced study in a wide range of philosophical subjects and methods—systematic, analytic, and historical. The Department has a faculty with an unusually broad range of interests and areas of expertise that span the main periods of the history of western philosophy and nearly every major area of contemporary philosophical debate.

Department News

September 01, 2024

Professor Christopher Peacocke is a Senior Faculty Heyman Center Fellow for 2024-25

Funded by the Office of the Executive Vice-President of the Arts & Sciences, the Heyman Center Fellowships provide four junior and four senior Columbia faculty with course relief during the academic year. During his time as a Heyman Centre Fellow, Prof. Peacocke plans to complete an interdisciplinary book presenting a theory of the nature of the perception of Western music. The theory aims to explain what it is for such musical experience to have the rich emotional and other content it is capable of possessing.

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