COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES - Key Persons
Adriene completed their undergraduate degree at Wellesley College and their PhD at Cornell. They work in philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, and ethics.
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- Director, Program on Ethics and Public Life
- Founding Editor of the Journal of Ethics
- Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy and Law
- Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy and Law Director of Ethics and Public Life
- Professor
Andrei Marmor is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy and Law and the Director of the Program in Ethics and Public Life. Prior to joining Cornell in 2015, he was Professor of Philosophy and Maurice Jones Jr Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. Having obtained his first law and philosophy degrees at the Tel Aviv University in Israel, and a D.Phil at Oxford University, UK, he returned to Tel Aviv University, where he taught as professor of law for ten years, before moving to the US.
His research interests span philosophy of law, moral, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of language. Marmor published dozens of articles, six book monographs and a number of edited volumes. His most recent books include Social Conventions: from language to law (Princeton, 2009), Philosophy of Law (Princeton, 2011) and The Language of Law (Oxford, 2014). His books and articles also appeared in numerous translations, including in Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, and Italian.
Marmor is the founding editor of the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, and the editor of several important volumes in legal philosophy, including, most recently, The Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law (with Scott Soames, Oxford 2011), and The Routlege Companion to Philosophy of Law.
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- Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct at Cornell
Benjamin S. Yost is Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct at Cornell University. Before coming to Cornell, he was Professor of Philosophy at Providence College; he has also taught at Harvard University, Auburn Correctional Facility, and with the Bard Prison Initiative. Specializing in the philosophy of punishment, with a focus on capital punishment and the punishment of the disadvantaged, he also has substantial interest in Kant's practical philosophy. Yost's book, Against Capital Punishment, was published with Oxford University Press in 2019. He also coedited The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford, 2021). Other published work appears in journals such as Utilitas, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Kantian Review, and Continental Philosophy Review.
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- Professor of Classics and
- Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters
Charles Brittain is a Professor of Classics and of Philosophy, specializing in ancient philosophy.
His research is primarily concerned with Hellenistic philosophy (especially epistemology and ethics), Cicero, Augustine, and the Platonic tradition from Plato to Simplicius.
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- Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Ethics
- Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Arts & Sciences Senior Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities
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- Philosophical Review Postdoctoral Associate
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- Associate Professor
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor Hodes received his PhD from Harvard in 1977. He came to the Sage School as a Mellon Fellow in 1977 and joined its faculty in 1979. Areas of specialization: Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Foundations of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mathematics. Areas of competence: Philosophy of Language; Decision Theory; History of 20th Century Philosophy.
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- Professor of Philosophy, Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Markovits joined the Cornell philosophy faculty in 2014, after spending five years on the philosophy faculty at MIT. Before that, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She completed her graduate work in philosophy at Oxford. Her research focuses on ethics. More specifically, she has written about questions concerning the nature of moral reasons and about moral praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. Her first book, Moral Reason, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. It defends the view that what we have reason to do depends on what we care about, but we all nonetheless have reason to be moral. Markovits teaches courses in meta- and normative ethics, bioethics, and the philosophy of law.
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- Associate Professor, Himan Brown Continuity Fellow
Kate Manne has been teaching at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2011-2013), did her graduate work at MIT (2006-2011), and was an undergraduate at the University of Melbourne (2001-2005), where she studied philosophy, logic, and computer science.
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- Philosophical Review Editorial Manager
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- Chairman
- Professor Department Chair
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- Fellow
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Morgan Thompson is a philosopher whose research lies at the intersection of philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and the use of ‘race' and ‘racism' concepts in science. She received her PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to Cornell, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Universität Bielefeld in Germany on the project "Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research". She is particularly interested in problems arising during measurement of socially-relevant constructs, such as ‘microaggression,' ‘implicit attitudes,' ‘intersectionality,' and ‘racial discrimination.' These issues include ethical and epistemic issues such as: retaining the unique features of ‘microaggression' in comparison to other constructs, adapting multi-dimensional concepts to be suitable for measurement, and identifying ethical-epistemic limitations on changing the meaning of concepts. She also has research interests in the demographics of philosophy and in particular, identifying features that explain why professional philosophy remains primarily male and White. Her research in this area also informs her teaching and mentoring. She has taught courses on feminist theories, concepts of race in science, health and disease, and technology. For three years, she served as a co-organizer of the Pittsburgh Summer Program in philosophy of science, which aims to provide a graduate-seminar experience for undergraduates from marginalized groups and underserved institutions.
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- Professor, Placement Director
Education
Oxford University, D.Phil in Philosophy, 2004
Oxford University, B.Phil in Philosophy, 2001
Princeton University, B.A. in Comparative Literature, magna cum laude, 1999
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- Professor in Christian Studies
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- Graduate Field Assistant & Undergraduate Coordinator for the Sage School
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- Program Assistant for the Program on Ethics & Public Life
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- Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Philosophy, Director of Cognitive Science
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- Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Ethics
- Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Arts & Sciences Senior Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities
- Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters
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- Director of Graduate Studies ( Interim 2023 - 2024 )
- Professor Director of Graduate Studies
Timothy M. Kwiatek received his PhD from Cornell in 2023. His research concerns moral psychology, praise, and Buddhist philosophy. He teaches courses on these and related subjects including Zen Buddhist thought, moral emotions, technology, and bioethics.