NYU Department of Philosophy
| Location | New York City, New York |
|---|---|
| Website | philosophy.fas.nyu.edu |
The New York University Department of Philosophy is ranked 1st in the US and 1st in the English-speaking world, in the 2014-15 ranking of philosophy departments by The Philosophical Gourmet Report[1] (it was ranked 1st in the previous 2011, 2009, and 2006 rankings). It was also ranked #1 by the QS World University Rankings.[2] It has particular strengths in epistemology, history of philosophy, logic, metaphysics, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of mind.[3]
The philosophy department of Columbia University have close relations with the faculty and students. Every year NYU and Columbia philosophy graduate students organize the Annual NYU/Columbia Graduate Student Philosophy Conference.[4]
Faculty
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, specializing in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of race, probability and decision theory
- Paul Boghossian, specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology
- Ned Block, specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive science
- David Chalmers, specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology
- Hartry Field, specializing in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics
- Paul Horwich, specializing in philosophy of language, metaphysics, Wittgenstein, philosophy of science
- Béatrice Longuenesse, specializing in Kant, Hegel, modern philosophy, philosophy of mind
- Tim Maudlin, specializing in foundations of physics, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of science
- Thomas Nagel, specializing in philosophy of mind, political philosophy, ethics
- Derek Parfit, specializing in ethics, philosophy of mind
- Samuel Scheffler, specializing in moral and political philosophy
- J. David Velleman, specializing in ethics, moral psychology
- Stephen Schiffer, specializing in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology
- Kit Fine, specializing in logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language
- Jeremy Waldron, specializing in philosophy of law, social and political philosophy
- Peter Unger, specializing in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics
- Crispin Wright, specializing in philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology
References
- ↑ "The Philosophical Gourmet". Blackwell Publishing Philosophy. 2011.
- ↑ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2014 – Philosophy". Top Universities. February 20, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- ↑ "NYU Department of Philosophy Webpage". NYU Philosophy Department Webpage.
- ↑ "NYU/Columbia Graduate Student Philosophy Conference". 2009.