Home Page | Philosophy

Welcome to the Department of Philosophy!
Emeritus Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah (2002-2014) presented the 2021 Hempel Lectures, "The Invention of Religion," in March.
Visiting fellow and longtime friend of the Department of Philosophy, Robert Merrihew Adams (Yale), delivered the 8th biennial David Lewis Lecture on November 2, 2020.
View the lecture here.
For the first time in its 30-year history, the 2020 Carl G. Hempel Lectures were delivered virtually by Princeton alum (Ph.D. 2002) and NYU Professor of Philosophy Cian Dorr in September. Links to the three lectures can be found here.
Television writer, creator and producer of "The Good Place," Mike Schur, was a surprise Class Day 2020 speaker. Watch the Virtual Class Day 2020 event, including Mike's remarks.
Harvey Lederman (center, front) and his T.E.A.M 2020 (Talks on Epistemology and Metaphysics) conference participants at what turned out to be the department's final in-person event of 2020.
Lisa Downing (OSU) delivers the Department of Philosophy's biennial Margaret Dauler Wilson lecture (3/2/20).
2019 Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Compass speakers and mentors Shen-yi Liao (University of Puget Sound) and Jacqueline Scott (Loyola University Chicago) chat with workshop participants over lunch in the Tower Room.
Sally Haslanger (MIT) greets Emeritus Professor Paul Benacerraf before delivering the 2019 Hempel Lectures.
2002 Alumna Jennifer Morton (UNC-Chapel Hill), left, chats with philosophy undergrads at the department's annual Princeton & Beyond dinner.
David Chalmers (NYU) delivers the 2019 David K. Lewis Lecture.
Sharon Street (NYU) addresses participants at the Department of Philosophy's inaugural Summer Institute in Practical Normativity (2018). Princeton hosted the first of three such Summer Institutes, a collaboration between Princeton University, Australian National University and Humboldt University of Berlin.
Weekly departmental afternoon tea.
Annual holiday party in the Tower Room.