The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, of a male figure sitting on a rock with his chin resting on one hand as though deep in thought.

Lecture Series

Each year the Department of Philosophy hosts the Philosophers Speak lecture series, in which a major philosopher is invited to present a university-wide talk on current or social issues. A number of influential figures have given the talks in recent years.

Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton) - "My Cosmopolitanism"
Harry Frankfurt (Princeton) - "Moral Responsibility"
Paul Boghossian (NYU) - "Relativistic Views of Knowledge and Morality"
Jeff McMahan (Rutgers) - "Proportionality in Self-Defense and War"
Nancy Fraser (New School) - "Marketization, Social Protection, and Emancipation"
Douglas Husak (Rutgers) - "The Morality of Drug Criminalization"
David Chalmers (NYU) - "AI and the Singularity"
Michele Moody-Adams (Columbia) - "The Enigma Forgiveness"
Philip Kitcher (Columbia) - "The Role of Scientists and Dissenters in Public Debates"
Eric Katz (NJIT) - "The Ethics of Climate Change"
Bryan Frances (Fordham) - "The Rationality of Religious Belief"
Simon Critchley (New School) - "Philosophical Eros"
Matthew Liao (NYU) - "Is there a Moral Duty to Adopt?"
Christia Mercer (Columbia) - "Feeling the Way to Truth"
John Cooper (Princeton) - "Aristotle and Responsibility for our Actions"
Christopher Lebron (Yale) - "The Future of Racial Morality"