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The Rutgers Philosophy Department isranked among the top two departments in the U.S.A. and the very best in a number of subfields of Philosophy.  We are especially active in interdisciplinary teaching and research and have developed close connections and collaborations with linguistics, psychology, computer science,  physics, classics and other fields.  An undergraduate student can take courses ranging from philosophy of quantum mechanics to the philosophy of literature. Our majors have gone on to successful careers in many fields including law, medicine, business, academics, journalism and science. Our PhD students have obtained positions teaching philosophy at many universities and colleges. To find out more about philosophy at Rutgers write toinfo@philosophy.rutgers.edu.

 

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  • Rutgers Philosophy 30 Year Anniversary Party and Conference

    You are invited to a party on December 7 and 8, 2012 to celebrate the 3oth anniversary of the Rutgers Philosophy Department!  For more information, click here.

  • The October Issue of Ethics (Vol. 122, No. 1) consists of a symposium on Jeff McMahan’s influential book Killing in War (Oxford Clarendon Press, 2009).

  • Rutgers Philosophy has received a $967,000 grant from the Templeton Foundation for the Philosophy of Cosmology project to investigate Big Questions in Philosophy of Cosmology.

  • Jacob Ross, Rutgers Philosophy graduate student, has had an article, “Sleeping Beauty, Countable Additivity, and Rational Dilemmas,” selected for Volume 30 of The Philosopher’s Annual (2010).  The Annual publishes articles judged by the editors to be the year’s ten best philosophy articles.  

  • Ross’s article follows hot on the heels of the selection for The Philosopher’s Annual Volume 29 of Jonathan Schaffer’s article “On What Grounds What?”

  • Jeff King and Jeff McMahan were both promoted this year to Professor II, a Rutgers rank above Professor I reserved for faculty demonstrating outstanding achievement in their fields of inquiry.  Congratulations to the two Jeffs!

  • Larry Temkin was interviewed on Oregon Public Radio to launch a series on the subject of equality.  A recording can be found at http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/inequality-what-it/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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