President Pollack shares community updates
President Martha E. Pollack shares some updates from across the Cornell community.
New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities
The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
New moral psychology minor takes on challenging questions
The curriculum will offer students interdisciplinary engagement with moral psychology theory and research as well as hands-on experience applying moral psychology to practical ethical issues.
Alumna broke ground for women as Nevada Supreme Court Justice
Miriam Shearing '56 pushed for justice for all litigants, but especially for women, children and people of color in a justice system that is sometimes biased against them.
New Faculty: David Shoemaker
David Shoemaker, Philosophy
Applications now open for Klarman postdoc fellowships in A&S
Applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.
Forward-looking Attitudes Toward Wrongdoing
In his newest book, Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions, Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Ethics Derk Pereboom responds to the criticism of his view, free will skepticism (alternatively known as hard incompatibilism), that living without free will is impractical. Having articulated and defended free will skepticism in two earlier books (...
An Empirical Turn in Ethics
John Doris, Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor in the Sage School of Philosophy, describes his research as falling in the intersection between “cognitive science, moral psychology, and philosophical ethics”.Starting from an early interest...
The Knowledge in Skills
Carlotta Pavese, Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Sage School of Philosophy, has been devoting much of her philosophical efforts to a substantial project that she calls “the project of the practical mind,” which focuses on explaining skillfulness and analyzing the different conditions for skillful action. This inquiry into the basis of...
The Cognitive Science of Philosophical Thought
Shaun Nichols, Professor at the Sage School of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Sciences program at Cornell, has always been puzzled by timeless problems in philosophy. “In general, I’ve been interested in almost the entire range of philosophy – the basic questions of free will, self, and the nature of morality and knowledge” says Nichols...
Memorial for Nicholas Sturgeon, Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus
A memorial for Nicholas Sturgeon, Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 2nd in the garden of the Andrew Dixon White House at Cornell. Those wishing to remember and honor Nick may attend in person or watch a streamed version of the event. Masks and...
Student Spotlight: Philosophy PhD Grad Student Anthony Sangiuliano
Anthony Sangiuliano is a doctoral candidate in philosophy from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. After attending the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School, he chose to pursue further study at Cornell for the strength and interdisciplinarity of the philosophy program.Read the entire interview hereWhat is your area of research and why is it...
Stop Talking About Accommodations and Start Talking About Access
“Many of us who are disabled are not particularly likeable or popular in general or amid the abled. Ableism means that we–with our panic attacks, our trauma, our triggers, our nagging need for fat seating or wheelchair access, our crankiness at inaccessibility, again, our staying home–are seen as pains in the ass, not particularly cool or sexy or...
Shutting off the Gaslight with Kate Manne, a Society for the Humanities Podcast
Speakers:Kate Manne, 2018-19 “Authority” Faculty Fellow and associate professor of philosophy at Cornell UniversityPaul Fleming, Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities and the L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of HumanitiesTo listen to the podcast, click here for more.
Philosophy/LOGOS alum '11 named Tompkins Asst District Atty
The Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office announced the arrival of a new Assistant District Attorney, Ariana Marmora ’11, on Tuesday.In her role as ADA, Marmora will be in charge of the criminal prosecutions in the Ithaca City courts. Marmora originally planned on attending graduate school to study philosophy, intellectual history or...
Kate Manne's book chosen one of best for 2020 by The Atlantic
Philosophy Professor Kate Manne's latest book "Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women" was chosen by The Atlantic as one of the 15 best new books in 2020.Read the entire article here.
Apocalypse Debate held online Wed 11/11/2020 6 pm EST
Humanity stands on the brink of total annihilation. As the bombs detonate, the meteor plummets, or the temperatures rise, there exists a time capsule that preserves (in full) one entire discipline of human thought, to be opened by the next generation of sentient life on the planet.Which discipline should be preserved? Faculty from several...
Professor David Shoemaker joins Sage School Faculty
The Sage School of Philosophy is delighted to announce that Professor David Shoemaker, formerly of Tulane University, has joined the Sage School faculty, effective July 1, 2021.As announced in the Daily Nous blog, Professor Shoemaker is renowned for his work on agency and responsibility, personal identity and ethics, moral psychology, normative...
Time for a US Truth & Reconciliation Commission? Prof Taiwo writes an op ed
Professor of Africana Studies, and member of the graduate field of Philosophy, Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò writes in the Cornell Sun:"George Floyd died on May 26 at the knee of a Minneapolis Police Department officer whose casualness as life slowly went out of a writhing Floyd must discomfit any human. This happened while we were still...