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Tamar Gendler, former chair of the Philosophy Department, steps into her new role as deputy provost for the humanities and initiatives today. Photo by Philipp Arndt.
September 3, 2013
Philosophy Department Chair Tamar Gendler will join the Provost’s Office today in the newly created role of deputy provost for the humanities and initiatives. Gendler will...
Tamar Gendler ’87 emphasized balancing diverse perspectives in her freshman orienta- tion keynote address Tuesday. Photo by Philipp Arndt .
August 28, 2013
Despite a fire alarm that went off Tuesday afternoon 20 minutes before this year’s freshman orientation keynote address was scheduled to begin, 1,359 members of the class of...
April 23, 2013
Six members of the faculty will be honored with awards for outstanding undergraduate teaching at a ceremony on Monday, April 29 at 5 p.m. in the Presidents Room of Woolsey...
January 18, 2013
Renowned philosopher Jonathan Lear will deliver the opening lecture in the spring 2013 Shulman Lectures in the Science and the Humanities. Titled “Wisdom Won from Illness:...
December 4, 2012
Tamar Szabó Gendler, the newly named Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy, focuses her research and teaching on issues in philosophical psychology, epistemology,...
October 29, 2012
Three months after receiving a $1.95 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Graduate School is using some of the funds to create a new concentration for Ph.D...
October 22, 2012
April 5, 2012
Seven new Yale College courses — in subjects ranging from the great 20th-century American novelists and the philosophy of human nature to financial markets and organic...
April 4, 2012
Lisa Jardine, the Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, will deliver the 2012 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the Whitney...
April 1, 2011
I heard a story recently. Maybe it was a joke. A philosophy joke. [Are those a thing? A man walks into a cave … ] “Asking what ‘kind’ or ‘brand’ of philosophy is taught at...

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