
Professor and Deputy Executive Officer John D. Greenwood is celebrating the publication of the first of three volumes in his “sweeping saga of historical fiction…

Professor Eric Mandelbaum, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Baruch College, has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities…

The 2017 Philosophy Department Newsletter is now available to view online. Below is the Letter from the Executive Officer. Other newsletter features include Program Spotlights (on…

PhD student Ian Olasov and alumna Rachel McKinney are quoted in a article titled “Ivanka Trump’s Foray into Nietzsche, and Other Gratuitous Misuses of Philosophy”,…

Faculty, students, and alumni are invited to complete a brief questionnaire to contribute to CUNY Philosophy’s annual end-of-year newsletter. (See ours newsletters from previous years – 2015, 2016…

Charles W. Mills, who was welcomed into the CUNY GC Philosophy faculty as a Distinguished Professor in 2016, has been elected into the American Academy of Arts…

Alumnus Ben Abelson and Professor Massimo Pigliucci were each recently interviewed by Skye Cleary in the American Philosophical Association’s APA Blog. Both Abelson and Pigliucci participated in the…

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Graham Priest has co-authored an article in Aeon Magazine, applying dialetheist logic to a perennial question in the philosophy of art: how can…

The New York Times By NICKOLAS PAPPAS APRIL 4, 2016 The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless….

Brian Leiter, on his popular blog Leiter Reports, recently conducted a survey about philosophers of art post-1945, and CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Program Distinguished Professor…

Fighting octopuses ‘change colour to signal intent’ 29 January 2016 Octopuses may have more complex social interactions than previously believed, a new study has found….

Samir Chopra is Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is also a Graduate Center alumnus, having earned his PhD…

The central theses of Noel Carroll’s 1990 Philosophy of Horror are detailed in this video by PBS Ideas Channel, a show hosted by Mike Rugnetta…

New research by Peter Godfrey-Smith, with David Scheel, a biologist at Alaska Pacific University, and Matthew Lawrence, an Australian diver, on octopus communication by bodily signals…

At the October 1-3 2010 New Yorker Festival, Joan Acocella discussed the vampire genre with philosopher Noël Carrol, author Stephen King, filmmaker Matt Reeves &…