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Derk Pereboom’s research is primarily on free will and moral responsibility and in philosophy of mind. He also works in early modern philosophy, especially on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and in philosophy of religion. He teaches courses in each of these areas.

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Sarah Murray

Murray's primary research is in the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, specifically what sorts of formal representations are needed to analyze a variety oflinguistic structures across grammatically diverse languages. Topics she has worked on include evidentiality, modality, plurality, connectives, sentential mood, and speech acts.

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Richard William Miller

Richard Miller's research and teaching were in political philosophy and ethics.

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Alumni gift to A&S supports doctoral students in the humanities

A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.

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Nexus Scholars Program applications now open

The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.

Diet Culture Is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral.

In a New York Times op-ed, Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, writes about personal and philosophical pressures placed on body image.

Lawrence J. McCrea

Larry McCrea received his Ph.D. in South Asian Languages & Civilizations in 1998 from the University of Chicago, and his BA in 1989 from Cornell University in the Cornell College Scholar Program.

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Helping humanities students explore careers beyond academia

Humanities doctoral students begin their programs with an area of interest. This focus narrows as dissertation research progresses until, by the end of a doctoral program, it narrows to the point that students see only a path to a faculty or research career. To broaden their view, the Graduate School’s Careers Beyond Academia has expanded its programs to illuminate many more possible careers.

Andrei Marmor

Andrei Marmor is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy and Law and the Director of the Program in Ethics and Public Life. Prior to joining Cornell in 2015, he was Professor of Philosophy and Maurice Jones Jr Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. Having obtained his first law and philosophy degrees at the Tel Aviv University in Israel, and a D.Phil at Oxford University, UK, he returned to Tel Aviv University, where he taught as professor of law for ten years, before moving to the US.

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Julia Markovits

Markovits joined the Cornellphilosophy faculty in 2014, after spending five years on the philosophy faculty at MIT. Before that, she was aJunior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She completed her graduate work in philosophy at Oxford. Her researchfocuses on ethics. More specifically, she has written about questions concerning the nature of moral reasons and about moral praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. Her first book, Moral Reason, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. It defends the view that what we have reason to do depends on what we care about, but we all nonetheless have reason to be moral. Markovitsteachescourses in meta- and normative ethics, bioethics, and the philosophy of law.

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Kate A. Manne

Kate Manne has been teaching at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2011–2013), did her graduate work atMIT (2006–2011), and was an undergraduate at the University of Melbourne (2001–2005), where she studied philosophy, logic, and computer science.

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Scott MacDonald

Scott MacDonald's research interests include medieval philosophy (especially Augustine and Aquinas), philosophical theology, and issues in philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and the philosophy of action — especially those concerned with free will, moral responsibility, and practical reasoning. He is currently working on themes in the later works of Augustine: the Confessions,De trinitate, and the Genesis commentaries.

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