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Alison Simmons receives Mendlesohn award for mentoring

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The Graduate Student Council recently named Professor Alison Simmons as one of five recipients of the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. This award, named for Professor emeritus in the History of Science Everett Mendelsohn, recognizes...

Emeritus Professor Israel Scheffler has passed away

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The Department of Philosophy is sad to report the death of Israel Scheffler, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy, Emeritus. Professor Scheffler passed away on February 16, 2014. He was 90 years old. Professor Catherine Z. Elgin...

Library discovers lectures by J. L. Austin

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Two recordings of a lecture and Q&A session given by the philosopher J. L. Austin to a Swedish audience in October of 1959 were recently discovered to be among the uncatalogued holdings of the Robbins Library of Philosophy. The recordings had apparently...

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Philosophy Department Graduate Student Organization The Philosophy Department Graduate Student Organization (GSO) is a group devoted to voicing the concerns of graduate students in the department and providing a forum for graduate students to make...

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Welcome to the Department of Philosophy! The graduate program in philosophy at Harvard offers students the opportunity to work and to develop their ideas in a stimulating and supportive community of fellow doctoral students, faculty members, and visiting...

Warren Goldfarb

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Research Interests: Mathematical Logic, Development of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophical Logic, and Metaphysics

Warren Goldfarb, W. B. Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard and has been on...

Cogan University Professor Emeritus Hilary Putnam (1926-2016)

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On Sunday, March 13, 2016, the world and our department lost one of contemporary philosophy's great voices, Hilary Putnam. Hilary's contributions to philosophy were both broad and deep, and his way of philosophizing and of being in the world were marked...

Thomas M. Scanlon

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Research Interests: ethics, history of ethics, theories of justice and equality, and political philosophy

T.M. Scanlon is Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. He received his B.A. from Princeton in 1962 and his Ph.D...

Richard Moran

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Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Literature, later Wittgenstein

Professor Richard Moran received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1989 and began teaching at Princeton, coming to Harvard in 1995. His interests...

Christine M. Korsgaard

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Research Interests: Moral Philosophy and its history, Practical Reason, Agency, Personal Identity, and Human/Animal Relations

Christine M Korsgaard (PhD Harvard, 1981) works on moral philosophy and its history, practical reason, agency, personal identity...

Gisela Striker

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Professor Striker holds a joint appointment with the Department of Classics. She was born and educated in Germany (Dr. Phil., University of Göttingen). She taught philosophy at Göttingen from 1971-1986, at Columbia University from 1986 to 1989, and at...