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Recognizing the serious challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic for student learning, faculty teaching, and academic performance assessment, the Cornell University Graduate School as well as the Sage School of Philosophy do both assert the following principles:Admissions committees and offices for graduate and professional programs in the...
Elizabeth Latham '20 recently received word from the undergraduate journal for philosophy Aporia at Brigham Young University that a paper of hers has been published by that journal.The Aporia staff adds "Remarkably, this (2020) is the 30th year that the Aporia has been published. This would, as far as I am aware, make the Aporia the longest ...
Each year, the American Philosophical Association (APA) makes grants to projects benefiting the philosophical community.This year, Cornell's PLUSS (Philosophy of Law Undergraduate Summer School) was awarded $10,000 to support the PLUSS program's efforts on diversity and inclusiveness.The APA board of officers makes available up to $20,000...
On July 13, 2019, the philosopher Kate Manne opened up Twitter and prepared to send out a flurry of tweets. The day before, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker had tried to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of trafficking dozens of girls for sex. On the blog “Why Evolution Is True,” Pinker claimed that he had a “paper...
**UPDATED Nov 6: Philosophy was deemed the winner, the discipline which should survive the apocalypse** (Photo credit Cornell Sun/Boris Tsang)As humanity stands on the brink of near-total annihilation, five Cornell University professors from different fields of study debate: whose area of study will help humans stay alive? As the bombs...
She’s already a Supreme Court justice, and a pop-culture action hero. And now, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg can claim another outsize distinction: winner of a $1 million prize.Justice Ginsburg has been named the recipient of the 2019 Berggruen Prize, which is given annually to a thinker whose ideas “have profoundly shaped human self-understanding...
The Sage School of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Professor Shaun Nichols will be joining the Department of Philosophy as a Full Professor, beginning in the fall of 2019.Dr. Nichols is currently a Professor of Philosophy at The University of Arizona. He holds a joint appointment in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Professor Nichols...
Want to improve your ability to think critically, solve problems, manage information, communicate, and persuade? Any person in any study can benefit from a philosophy course; if you have an interest in justice, politics, ethics, law, aesthetics, logic, or language, check out the Sage School's spring course offerings! Course pre-enroll for...
Finding life balance is a quest that Kylie Long '19, an aspiring radiologist, appreciates. Her pathway of learning and discovery at Cornell has led her to pursue the humanities along with the sciences and to study ancient texts as well as conduct stem cell research. She asks life’s big questions, while also getting down-to-earth at a local...
Plato's Moral Psychology is concerned with Plato's account of the soul and its impact on our living well or badly, virtuously or viciously. The core of Plato's moral psychology is his account of human motivation, and Rachana Kamtekar argues that throughout the dialogues Plato maintains that human beings have a natural desire for our own good, and...
Philosophy's Kate Manne has been in the news lately with her new book "Down Girl". Read about it in this interview with Vox.What is misogyny? How is it different from sexism? And why does the male-dominated status quo seem to persist?A new book by Cornell philosophy professor Kate Manne has answers. She argues that misogyny is not about male...
The Sage School of Philosophy celebrated World Philosophy Day on Thursday, November 21, 2019. The LOGOS Undergrad Philosophy Club & Journal was at tables in Willard Straight Hall with handouts, philosophy chats, and snacks, from 11:30 am til 4:30 pm.By celebrating World Philosophy Day each year, on the third Thursday of November, UNESCO...
To be fair to my wife, Courtenay, it was scorching that day. And as we trudged along, filthy and exhausted (our typical condition), surrounded by rebels waging a guerrilla war in one of the hottest places on earth, Ogaden Desert in Ethiopia, we realized we had run out of water.“Don’t be a wimp,” Courtenay hissed. “Do something.”“Like what?” I...
As a graduate student, Richard W. Miller, Philosophy, became deeply interested in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In his dissertation, he grappled with Wittgenstein’s attempts to dissolve the question, “Does anything exist except my own experience?” It was the early 1970s, however. The Vietnam War was growing bloodier by the day, and while he...
The Faculty of the Sage School of Philosophy strongly endorses the petition "Make Cornell a Sanctuary Campus". Link here for the petition in its entirety.
At the front of Sage Chapel, a mosaic frieze designed by Ella Condie Lamb called "The Realm of Learning" depicts the work of the university. At its very center is a woman seated on a throne representing Philosophy, flanked by figures representing Truth and Beauty. The larger images of a man and woman to her left and right represent Cornell's...
