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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

May 15, 2024

Congratulations to the Class of 2024!

The Department of Philosophy congratulates its BA, MA, and PhD graduates for all their hard work and achievements.

Departmental Honors:
Peter Guo (GS)
Soham Mehta (CC)
Rebekah Seow (GS)
Kyla Tang (CC)
April Wang (CC)

Adam Leroy Jones Prize:
Zimu Zhang (CC)

James Gutmann Prize:
Cassady Marion (CC)

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