Welcome to the Department of Philosophy, at Brown University.
Upcoming Events
The colloquium schedule for 2013-14 is still being finalized. It will be posted when available.
Department News
We've Moved!
The Philosophy Department has moved! We are now located in Corliss-Brackett House, which is at the corner of Angell Street and Prospect Street. The house, which is on the US National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1875 by the inventor George Henry Corliss. It was previously the Admissions Office.
Come find us in our new home!
Completed Dissertations
Congratulations to Derek Bowman, Matthew Konig, Katia Samoilova, and Vlad Vlaovic, who have all successfully defended their dissertations this April. Bowman's dissertation was entitled Utopian Models and the Ideal Theory Debate; Konig's, Taking Seriously the Metaphysics of Mental Causation: A Nonreductivist Account; Samoilova's, The Case for Pluralism About Introspection; and Vlaovic's Normative Reality: Heavy-Duty Realism and the Expressivist Challenge.
Ethical Inquiry
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the formation of the center for Ethical Inquiry. Its mission is to foster philosophical inquiry into the "good life" in a manner broadly inspired by the form this inquiry assumed in ancient Greek philosophy (paradigmatically in Stoic philosophy).
Alexandra King Named Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellow
Congratulations to Alexandra King, who has been named Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellow for 2013-14. For more information, please see the press release.
Recent Books
Congratulations to Mary Louise Gill, whose book Philosophos: Plato's Missing Dialogue, has been published by Oxford University Press; to Richard Heck, whose book Reading Frege's Grundgesetze has also been published by Oxford University Press; and to Charles Larmore, whose book Vernuft und Subjektivität has been published by Surkhamp.
Contacts
Inquiries regarding graduate admissions should be directed to the Graduate School and not to the Director of Graduate Studies. The Director of Graduate Studies is responsible only for the Graduate Program, and plays no special role in the admissions processs.
Chair: Bernard Reginster
Director of Graduate Studies: Christopher Hill
Director of Undergraduate Students: Justin Broackes
Mailing address: Box 1918, Brown University, Providence RI 02912
For deliveries: 45 Prospect St, Providence RI 02912