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A Philosophy Major Walks into a Football Locker Room.......

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 of place where your pediatrician might also be your teammate's mom, where the local circuit court judge doubles as your Scout leader, and where a soccer team can grow up together from first grade through senior year without changing much more than jersey sizes. "Small-town America really made me who I am," senior sprint football place-kicker Sumner Roberts said. "Everyone knows everyone. You can't fake it. You learn to be authentic."

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Your November 2025 reads

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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Olin Library to hold reopening celebration Aug. 27

The celebration also features a welcome speech at 12:15 p.m. by Elaine L. Westbrooks, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, and open houses for the new Anthropology Collaboratory and Library Map Collection.

Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela

Student Spotlight: Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela

Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela is a doctoral candidate in philosophy from Medellín, Colombia. She earned her B.A. in philosophy and literature from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia, and M.A., magna cum laude, in philosophy from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and now studies how praise and pride reflect the values embraced by a given society under the guidance of John M. Doris at Cornell. She was recently featured in the Cornell Grad School's "Student Spotlight".

Philosophy Library Books

Sina Toussi ’91: Honoring professors and transforming lives

Sina Toussi ’91 established a new undergraduate scholarship in honor of Professors David B. Lyons and Allen W. Wood. The gift contributes to Cornell’s Undergraduate Affordability Initiative, and it is focused on supporting first-generation college students from the Bronx, New York.

Professor Justin Steinberg

Taking History Seriously

For Steinberg, the relevance of history extends beyond academia. He is heartened by the increasing number of philosophers engaging in public philosophy, especially in relation to contemporary issues like social media and AI.

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Professor Emad Atiq

In Search of Norms within a World of Facts

I'm interested in understanding norms. There are moral norms that tell us how to conduct ourselves in relation to others, there are epistemic norms for how we should orient our beliefs in relation to the world [...] and then there are legal norms that tell us, for example, that no one should be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.

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Moral psychology summer institute hosted at Cornell

Directed by College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) faculty in psychology and philosophy, the NEH-funded institute featured presentations from many leading figures in moral psychology, which studies human thought and behavior in ethical contexts

Peter Loewen

Peter Loewen named dean of Arts and Sciences

Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.

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