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The Sage School of Philosophy has a distinguished tradition of philosophical research and teaching. Students at every level and in every area of intellectual endeavor find opportunity to engage with great philosophical ideas and problems and develop the critical thinking and analytical skills necessary for advancing our understanding of them.
A leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology exploring questions of character, virtue and agency, John Doris writes about a movement to inform moral philosophy with psychological research, as well as the other way around.
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Built in an era when the University was under fire for being nonsectarian, it offers respite from a bustling campus.
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Congratulations to Philosophy professor John Doris. He was recently awarded the 2025 Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Philosophy Association. Read more here https://www.apaonline.org/general/custom.asp?page=2025prizes-f#gittler_award
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After a long career onstage and off, Ellen Stekert ’57 is focused on preservation—releasing songs from her vast archive on Bandcamp.
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I know it sounds like the setup to a joke: a philosophy major walks into a football locker room..... From Cornell Sports/CornellBigRed.com : On fall Saturdays in Macomb, Ill., the town felt small enough that every face was familiar and every story overlapped with your own. It's the kind o...
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This month’s titles featured in Cornellians include poetry, a famed restaurateur’s memoir, and a chronicle of the 1929 stock market crash
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"I got a taste of what neuroscience research is really like."
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A new course being offered will give students the chance to consider some of the most polarizing issues in our world today.
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The Cornell Program on Ethics and Public Life promotes interdisciplinary learning about morally central questions concerning public policies and social, political and economic processes.