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From 2001 to 2010, Della Rocca served as the chair of Yale's Department of Philosophy, where he played a crucial role in transforming the department from a state of "disarray" to one of the leading philosophy programs in the United States.
Second President's House, home to the Department of Philosophy and the Arts, 1847–1860. Established by an act of the Yale Corporation in August 1847, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was originally called the "Department of Philosophy and the Arts" and enrolled eleven students who had completed four-year undergraduate degrees.
On July 1, 2010, she became Chair of the Yale University Department of Philosophy, becoming the first woman to hold that position in the department's history and the first female graduate of Yale College to chair a Yale Department. She held the position until 2013, when she was appointed as Deputy Provost for Humanities and Initiatives.
Jason Stanley (born 1969) is an American philosopher who is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. [1] [2] He is best known for his contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology, [3] which often draw upon and influence other fields, including linguistics and cognitive science.
He received his B.A. in philosophy from Columbia College, [1] his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University.After law school, Shapiro served as a clerk for Judge Pierre Leval on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. [2]
Paul Walter Franks is the Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Philosophy and Judaic Studies at Yale University. [1] He graduated with his PhD from Harvard University in 1993. Franks' dissertation, entitled "Kant and Hegel on the Esotericism of Philosophy", was supervised by Stanley Cavell and won the Emily and Charles Carrier Prize ...
Shelly Ian Kagan (/ ˈ k eɪ ɡ ən /; born 1956) is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, where he has taught since 1995. He is best known for his writings about moral philosophy and normative ethics. [1] In 2007, Kagan's course about death was offered for free online, and was very popular. [2]
As a school of thought, the Yale School is more closely allied with the post-structuralist dimensions of deconstruction as opposed to its phenomenological dimensions. . Additionally, the Yale School is philosophically affined to the 1970s version of deconstruction that John D. Caputo has described as a "Nietzschean free play of signifiers" and not the 1990s version of deconstruction that was ...