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Allison will be joining the Columbia faculty on July 1, 2021 after completing a Bersoff Faculty Fellow position at NYU. Her areas of specialization are Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and Early Modern philosophy.
On April 29, 2021, Professor Robert Gooding-Williams was the inaugural recipient for Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Social Philosophy.
For more information about the 2021 American Academy of Arts and Sciences winners.
We are happy to announce that John Morrison (Associate Professor, Barnard Philosophy) and Christos Papadimitriou (Donovan Family Professor, Columbia Computer Science) were awarded a $100,000 grant from the Columbia Data Science Institute to create and teach a course at the intersection of philosophy, computer science, and neuroscience. The grant comes from Columbia's Collaboratory Fellows Fund and will allow John and Christos to create a course exploring the following issues:
"Artificial neural networks can do amazing things. They can play chess,…
See the Columbia News article on Professor Clarke-Doane's new work, Morality and Mathematics, available here:
https://news.columbia.edu/news/justin-clarke-doane-new-book-on-morality-and-mathematics
We are happy to announce that Professor Robert Gooding-Williams, M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies, has been awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship.
"Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-sixth competition."
Professor Gooding-Williams' project is entitled: Du Bois’s Political Aesthetics:…