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 for the 2025-26 admissions cycle and is not accepting applications for Fall 2025 entry. We will resume PhD admissions for Fall 2026 entry. 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
Professor Melissa Fusco Selected for The Philosopher's Annual's 2023 Ten Best Articles of the Year
Organized Amusement - feat. Professor Lydia Goehr, Triple Canopy Symposium 2024
Organized Amusement
with Joey La Neve DeFrancesco, A. S. Hamrah, Blair McClendon, Lydia Goehr & Ciarán Finlayson
November 2, 2024
A discussion about the twilight of the culture industry eighty years after the publication of Adorno and Horkeimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment.
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Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Tenure-Track)
The Department of Philosophy at Columbia University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning July 1, 2025. For full details and to apply, please see this page.