CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT:
Professor Stephen Schiffer

ASSOCIATE CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT:
Professor Don Garrett

DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS:
Professor Kit Fine

DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES:
Associate Professor Michael Strevens

DIRECTOR OF PLACEMENT:
Professor Ned Block

The Department of Philosophy welcomes applicants who wish to pursue the Doctor of Philosophy or Master of Arts degree. The department has particular strengths in the areas of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of logic and mathematics, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, and the history of philosophy. The department offers a Ph.D.-J.D. dual degree program with the NYU School of Law. The M.A. degree may be taken in dual degree programs with the New York University School of Law and with the New York University School of Medicine. The department’s small classes give ample opportunity for discussion and allow close consultation on writing.

Faculty

REGULAR FACULTY

Ned Block, Professor, Philosophy, Psychology; Silver Professor. Ph.D. 1971 (philosophy), Harvard; B.S. 1964 (physics and philosophy), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Philosophy of mind; philosophy of science; foundations of cognitive science.

Paul Boghossian, Professor; Silver Professor. Ph.D. 1986 (philosophy), Princeton; B.Sc. 1978 (physics), Trent.
Philosophy of mind; philosophy of language; epistemology.

Matt Evans, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2004 (philosophy), Texas (Austin); B.A. 1995 (religion), Vassar College.
Ancient philosophy; ethics.

Hartry H. Field, Professor. Ph.D. 1972 (philosophy), M.A. 1968 (philosophy), Harvard; B.A. 1967 (mathematics), Wisconsin.
Metaphysics; epistemology; philosophy of logic; philosophy of mathematics.

Kit Fine, Professor, Philosophy, Mathematics; Silver Professor. Ph.D. 1969 (philosophy), Warwick; B.A. 1967 (philosophy), Oxford.
Logic; metaphysics; philosophy of language.

Richard Foley, Professor; Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science. Ph.D. 1975, Brown; M.A. 1970, B.A. 1969, Miami.
Epistemology.

Don Garrett, Professor. Ph.D. 1979 (philosophy), Yale; B.A. 1974 (philosophy), Utah.
Early modern (17th- and 18-century) philosophy.

Paul Horwich, Professor. Ph.D. 1975 (philosophy), M.A. 1973 (philosophy), Cornell; M.A. 1969 (physics and philosophy), Trent; B.A. 1968 (physics), Oxford.
Philosophy of language; metaphysics; Wittgenstein; philosophy of science.

Béatrice Longuenesse, Professor. Doctorat d’Etat es Lettres 1992, Doctorat de Troisième Cycle en Philosophie (Ph.D.) 1980, Maitrise de Philosophie 1972, Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).
Continental philosophy; Hegel; Kant.

Thomas Nagel, Professor, Philosophy, Law; University Professor. Ph.D. 1963 (philosophy), Harvard; B.Phil. 1960 (philosophy), Oxford; B.A. 1958 (philosophy), Cornell.
Philosophy of mind; political philosophy; ethics.

James Pryor, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1997 (philosophy), Princeton; B.A. 1991 (philosophy), Cornell.
Epistemology; philosophy of mind; related issues in metaphysics and philosophy of language.

John Richardson, Professor. Ph.D. 1981 (philosophy), California (Berkeley); B.A. 1974 (philosophy, politics, and economics), Oxford; B.A. 1972 (philosophy), Harvard.
Nineteenth- and 20th-century Conti-nental philosophy; ancient philosophy.

William Ruddick, Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics; Professor, Philosophy; Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry. Ph.D. 1964 (philosophy), Harvard; M.A. 1963, B.A. 1957 (psychology, philosophy, and physiology), Oxford; B.A. 1953 (English literature), Princeton.
Philosophy of science and medicine; professional and applied ethics.

Samuel Scheffler, Professor (beginning in 2008). Ph.D. 1977 (philosophy), Princeton; B.A. 1973 (philosophy), Harvard.
Moral and political philosophy.

Stephen Schiffer, Professor; Chair, Department of Philosophy. D.Phil. 1970 (philosophy), Oxford; B.A. 1962 (philosophy), Pennsylvania.
Philosophy of language; philosophy of mind; metaphysics.

Sharon Street, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2002 (philosophy), Harvard; B.A. 1995 (philosophy), Amherst.
Ethics.

Michael Strevens, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1996 (philosophy), Rutgers; M.A. 1991 (philosophy), B.A. 1988 (mathematics), B.Sc. 1986 (computer science), Auckland.
Philosophy of science; concepts; philosophical applications of cognitive science.

Peter Unger, Professor. D.Phil. 1966 (philosophy), Oxford; B.A. 1962 (philosophy), Swarthmore College.
Metaphysics; epistemology; philosophy of mind; ethics.

J. David Velleman, Professor. Ph.D. 1983 (philosophy), Princeton; B.A. 1976 (philosophy and ancient history), Oxford; B.A. 1974 (classics), Amherst College.
Action theory; ethics; philosophy of mind.

REGULAR VISITING FACULTY

Derek Parfit, Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. M.A., B.A. 1964, Oxford.
Ethics; philosophy of mind.

Crispin J. G. Wright, Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. D.Litt. 1988, B.Phil. 1969, Oxford; Ph.D. and M.A. 1968, B.A. 1964, Cambridge.
Philosophy of language; philosophy of mathematics; metaphysics; epistemology.

ASSOCIATED FACULTY

Ronald Dworkin, School of Law; Dale Jamieson, School of Education; Liam Murphy, School of Law; Jeremy Waldron, School of Law.

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Phillip Mitsis, Classics.

FACULTY EMERITI

Raziel Abelson, Frances Myrna Kamm.