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Prof. Achille Varzi is a participant of the Biennale Architettura 2025 in Venice, Italy (May 10-November 23, 2025). He helped organize the "Archive and the City" project. For more information, please see this website.
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March 13, 2025 | 4:30-6 pm
A panel discussion with Prabhat Patnaik, and Siddharth Varadajan. Moderated by Akeel Bilgrami.
Speakers
Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morganbessor Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.
Prabhat Patnaik is one of India's most eminent economists and taught for many years at Cambridge University and Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Siddharth Varadarajan is a journalist and editor in India, who was the founding editor of The Wire and the former editor of The Hindu.
…Christia Mercer will receive the 2025 Stefanopoulos Philosophical Society Award on Friday, February 7 at Marist University. For more information, please see this page.
Christia Mercer is the Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, editor of Oxford Philosophical Concepts, and co-editor of Oxford New Histories of Philosophy, a book series devoted to making philosophy more inclusive. In 2019-20, she served as president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. She has published op-eds in the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, and other…
Aristotle’s Practical Epistemology presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s influential account of practical wisdom (phronēsis) by situating the topic within his broader theory of ethical knowledge. Interpreters have long struggled to make sense of the disparate features Aristotle seems to attribute to practical wisdom, particularly its role in bringing about individual choices and actions that fulfill the demands of the virtues of character and its status as an intellectual excellence or virtue of thought that is the analog, in the domain of ethical action, of theoretical wisdom…
Professor Michele Moody-Adams will deliver the Presidential Address at the upcoming 2025 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Please see this page for more information.
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.
Roulette
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Brooklyn, NY 11217
“The whole world is passed through the filter of the culture industry,” Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote in 1944, introducing a term that continues to define the production of art and media. Eighty years later, Organized…
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.
The 2024 Ambedkar Law Lectures will take place on Tuesday 24 September (JGH 104) and Wednesday 25 September (JGH 106) from 5.00-6.30 PM.
The lectures, titled Reading Fanon, will be delivered by Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU) and will focus on the writings of Frantz Fanon, one of the twentieth century’s most important theorists of colonialism, revolution, and freedom. On each day, the lectures will have two commentators: Jeremy Kessler (Columbia Law School) and Aslı Ü. Bâli (Yale Law School) on 24th September, and Kaiama L. Glover (African American Studies,…
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. 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. He is the recipient of the Jean Nicod Prize for 2024, and the material on music perception is based on the lectures associated…
Christopher A.B. Peacocke has been awarded the Prix Jean Nicod 2024 and will give a series of lectures at the École normale supérieure, Paris in May and June 2024. More information can be found here.
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)
This award is funded by the Mellon Foundation for the support of an exceptional graduate student during their last dissertation year, in the subspecialty of science within the fields of history, philosophy, or sociology.