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The School of Philosophy is an academic division in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at
University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...
. It is one of the largest centres for the study of philosophy in the United States.


Rankings

The
Philosophical Gourmet Report The Philosophical Gourmet Report (also known as the Leiter Report or PGR), founded by philosophy and law professor Brian Leiter and now edited by philosophy professors Berit Brogaard and Christopher Pynes, is a ranking of graduate programs in phi ...
lists the school at 7th in the US and 8th in the English-speaking world.


Faculty

This list is limited to those with articles in Wikipedia


Emeritus faculty

* S. Marshall Cohen, University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Law * Frank Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy * George Wilson, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy


Former faculty

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John Hospers John Hospers (June 9, 1918 – June 12, 2011) was an American philosopher and political activist. Hospers was interested in Objectivism, and was once a friend of the philosopher Ayn Rand, though she later broke with him. In 1972, Hospers becam ...
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James Higginbotham James Higginbotham FBA (17 August 1941 – 25 April 2014) was a distinguished professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He taught previously at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia Unive ...


See also

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NYU Department of Philosophy The New York University Department of Philosophy is ranked 1st in the US and 1st in the English-speaking world as of the most recent edition of the ''Philosophical Gourmet Report'' from 2021 (as well as in the 2017, 2014, 2011, 2009, and 2006 edi ...


References


External links


Official website
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