2nd Annual "Phenomenological Approaches to Physics” Conference, September 26-28, 2019 . This year’s theme is “Quantum Mechanics: Paradigm or Ontology of Nature?,” focusing on realist and anti-realist interpretations of quantum mechanics. Abstract submissions are due June 6.

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Applications are now being accepted for Fall 2019 admissions to the   MA in Philosophy and the Arts and to the joint MA in History of Philosophies, East and West. 

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In the Stony Brook Philosophy Department, philosophy is more an activity than an artifact, more a collective vocation than a solitary pursuit.

Stony Brook Philosophy Professors Harvey Cormier and Lorenzo Simpson  at the Jazz & Philosophy  Intermodal Conference (JPIC), April 12-14, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California

The 2019 Collegium Phaenomenologicum "Critical Phenomenology: Rethinking Politics, Affect, and Normativity," directed by Anne O'Byrne, will be held in Italy July 8-25th. 

What are the differences between science denial, anti-science, pseudoscience, and skepticism?   Featured on Forbes,  Robert Crease answers these questions.

Congratulations!
Michael Kryluk for being awarded the 2019 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student and Caleb Ward for winning the Joyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award

Mattoo Chair Inaugural Lecture at Stony Brook Attracts a Huge Audience
Professor Arindam Chakrabarti, the first holder of the Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Chair in Classical Indic Humanities at Stony Brook University, delivered his inaugural lecture Feb. 29 on “Pain, Poetry and the Practice of Philosophy” to an overflow audience, the university announced.

Defending Science: Robert Crease Takes On the Denialists  Today the authority of science is under attack. How is this possible? What can we do about it?  ⁦‪Stony Brook University ⁩ professor Robert Crease investigates.