In a contribution to New Statesman’s Agora philosophy column, Distinguished Professor Noël Carroll explains why “the refrain ‘just joking’ is not fool-proof. It will not automatically protect racist, ethnic […]

CUNY Philosophy of Emotions Workshop
Location: Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 5th Avenue, room 5307
This workshop will provide a forum for researchers doing work on emotions and related states. The goal is to share […]

Gertrude Ezorsky, Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, has passed away at the age of 92. Excerpts from an obituary written by Andrew Wengraf and Nanette Funk appear […]

CUNY philosophers past & present are converging on Vancouver, B.C. for the 2019 American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. This year’s program features eleven alumni, five faculty members, and […]

The CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences and the Gotham Philosophical Society are co-sponsors of an upcoming memorial conference in honor of the late Prof. Stephan Bernard Baumrin, Monday April 29th from 1 […]

Two CUNY philosophers — alumna Laura Di-Summa Knoop and PhD Candidate John Dyck — are co-organizers of the 2019 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, April 5th-6th in Philadelphia, […]

Several CUNY faculty and PhD students are travelling to Milan to present in the 2nd Annual CUNY-Milan Interdisciplinary Workshop in Philosophy, March 28th-29th, 2019. According to our partners at the University of […]

Date: April 5th, 2019
Location: The Graduate Center, CUNY Room 9204/9205
Download the Conference Flyer 

SCHEDULE:
9-9:30am
Breakfast & Registration
Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. […]

PhD Candidate Kathryn (Kate) Wojtkiewicz has won the 2019-2020 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Society of Aesthetics. According to ASA Secretary-Treasurer Julie Van Camp,
“[Kate] was selected from […]

Profs. Alcoff and Mills spoke with the Graduate Center’s media team about the upcoming Black Women Philosophers Conference (March 15th-16th, 2019), hosted by CUNY GC Philosophy and the Center for the Humanities. […]

Prof. Linda Martín Alcoff has published an essay in Aeon Magazine, calling for the reconsideration of consistency as “a litmus test of credibility” for the testimonies of victims of sexual assault.

Alcoff’s […]

Professor Barbara Gail Montero is the director of (and a performer in) the upcoming multimedia, interdisciplinary event Curved Spacetimes: Where Friedrich Nietzsche Meets Virginia Woolf. Prof. Nickolas Pappas w […]

Associate Professor of Philosophy Jennifer M. Morton has published an essay in Aeon Magazine, examining how institutions of higher education can help to produce a more “diverse and representative elite”. M […]

The 2019 American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting will take place February 20th-23rd in Denver, Colorado.

Scroll through the program highlights copied below to find out which CUNY […]

What does a philosopher look like? Inevitably, our mental pictures are shaped by the dominant imagery of the white male marble busts of Greco-Roman antiquity—Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca—and their mod […]

Spring 2019 Lineup
During Spring 2019, we will once again meet on Monday evenings from 6:30 until 8:30 in room 302 of NYU’s philosophy building (5 Washington Place).

We have the following great lineup of s […]

Spring 2019, Fridays, 1-3 pm
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center

February 15:  Andrew Lee
Philosophy, New York University
“Introspective Error”

February 22:  William Robinson
Philosophy, Iowa State U […]

Each colloquium will be held on Wednesday from 4:15 P.M. to 6:15 P.M.
All colloquia will take place at the GC in rooms 9-204/9-205 except as otherwise noted.

Download an interactive PDF version of the schedule […]

The annual 12-hour Night of Philosophy and Ideas returns to the Brooklyn Public Library from 7pm on Saturday, Feb. 2nd to 7am on Sunday, Feb. 3rd. As recently reported in the New York Times, the event will […]

The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 in room 7314 of the Graduate Center, CUNY (365 5th Avenue).

The provisional schedule is as follows (* indicates a change):

Feb […]