Persistent questioning of knowledge takes a toll
It can be demoralizing for a person to work in a climate of repetitive skepticism and doubt about what they know.
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Summer Experience Grant applications now open
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
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Students host first undergraduate philosophy conference
Sophia Gottfried '25 talks about putting on Cornell's first undergraduate philosophy conference.
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A moral philosopher contemplates the evils of 'fatphobia'
After penning two acclaimed books on misogyny, Kate Manne turns her attention to a different—but related—form of oppression
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Following Freedom
"There’s something kind of beautiful about that sort of devotion to studying questions that really matter." Toni Alimi
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Arcanum on the Interface of Philosophy and Math
Hodes works primarily in logic and the philosophy of mathematics, so he is accustomed to getting confused looks when he explains his projects. “I am interested in defending some version of logicism, the idea that an awful lot of mathematics is really fancy logic, which is to say higher order logic,”...
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The voices we can(not) silence
An accomplished philosopher of language, social philosopher, cognitive scientist, and mathematician with a full roster of other interests and experiences behind them, Professor Starr reflects on having “gotten deeply into a number of different things at different stages of [their] life.”
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Apr
27
Saturday
09:00 AM
Political Philosophy In The Twenty-First Century - A Memorial Conference for Richard Miller
Physical Sciences Building
401
Apr
30
Tuesday
09:00 AM
Ancient Philosophy Lecture, Francesco Ademollo, University of Florence
Goldwin Smith Hall
236
May
01
Wednesday
05:30 PM
Dispelling the Trans Specter
Goldwin Smith Hall
132
May
03
Friday
03:00 PM
Philosophy Discussion Club: Sarah Moss, University of Michigan
Rockefeller Hall
132
Jun
24
Monday
12:00 AM
6-Week Summer Session Begins
Campus-wide
Jul
04
Thursday
12:00 AM
Aug
26
Monday
12:00 AM
Instruction Begins
Campus-wide
Sep
02
Monday
12:00 AM
Labor Day - No Classes
Campus-wide
Oct
14
Monday
12:00 AM
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Campus-wide
Ethics & Public Life
The Cornell Program on Ethics and Public Life promotes interdisciplinary learning about morally central questions concerning public policies and social, political and economic processes.