Philosophy at Stony Brook University
Our program is inspired by the belief that philosophy matters – that philosophy makes a difference in the lives of those who pursue it in teaching, reading, writing, and acting. We provide our students with the intellectual resources needed to become critically engaged global citizens with mature cosmopolitan, moral, and political sensibilities. We exercise leadership in our university, the profession, and the discipline by combining our strengths in continental, feminist, and pragmatic philosophy with methodological pluralism and strong resources in aesthetics and the history of philosophy.
In the Stony Brook Philosophy Department, philosophy is more an activity than an artifact, more a collective vocation than a solitary pursuit.
Philosophy Events
Apply for the MA Program
Applications are now being accepted for Fall 2018 admissions to the MA in Philosophy
and the Arts Program.
Begin Your Application Now! Click here for more information about the MA in Philosophy and the Arts .
People Spotlight
New Department Chair
Robert Crease
, who has been
a part of
the
Stony Brook Philosophy department for 25
years, is our new chair. He has written, translated, or edited more than a dozen
books on history and philosophy of science. Professor Crease is the Co-Editor-in-Chief
of
Physics in Perspective, and writes a monthly column
on the philosophy and history of science
, “Critical Point"
for
Physics World
magazine. His work as the
Atlantic Monthly,
New York Times,
Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.
New Graduate Director
Anne O'Byrne
is our new Program Director for both the MA and PhD programs! Professor O'Byrne has
also recently be named director of the
Collegium Phaenomenologicum
in Citta di Castello, Italy for July 2019.
Congratulations!
Jennnifer Carter successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Touch and Caress
in the Work of Luce Irigaray" on March 27. Dr. Carter's work focuses on the distinctive
role that the gesture of touching between human beings plays in Irigaray’s philosophy,
and how touch and caress can create a bridge between persons, between sexes, and toward
a more suitable and sustainable future for humanity.
Philosophy News
Long Island Ethics Bowl
For the 9th year in a
row, Stony Brook Philosophy participated as judges for the Long Island Ethics Bowl,
organized by the
Squires Foundation. This year, graduate students
Katelyn Ellison
,
Delicia Kamins
and
James Sares
, and Associate Professor
Gary Mar
judged the competitive yet collaborative event in which students analyze and discuss
real-life, and timely, ethical issues.
Summer in Italy!
Last summer, more than 15 current and former PhD students and faculty presented and participated in the collegium.
