Philosophy at Stanford

10/30/2025

First annual Stanford Philosophy Jack-O'-Lantern Contest! Vote for your favorites 🧅🚃🦉🦇

10/20/2022

Dinner on the quad

10/18/2022

06/27/2022

Congratulations to our Stanford Philosophy Graduates! We celebrated our graduates on Sunday, June 12 in the main quad. Below is a selection of photos from the event, which included graduates from the classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022.
All photos credit to Bendix Kemmann.

06/24/2022

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is currently offline due to a power outage on campus at Stanford University. We expect to be back online shortly after power is restored. Meanwhile, you are encouraged to make use of our two mirror sites:



https://seop.illc.uva.nl

https://stanford.library.sydney.edu.au/



though the search engine at the Sydney mirror is currently offline due to a pending system upgrade.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.

04/14/2022

https://twitter.com/Stanford/status/1514008431623131139?s=20&t=5r4EXz1yqIoHnL6bPKfcsw

“The view from the philosophy department. Stanford's climate is "so friendly," the philosopher and psychologist William James said in 1906, during a stint as a visiting professor, "that every morning wakes one fresh for new amounts of work."”

09/24/2021

Meet senior Philosophy major Nick Hakes:

“"If you can't do the small things right, you're not going to do the big things right." Meet Stanford senior Nick Hakes: honky-tonk enthusiast, philosophy major, aspiring military trauma surgeon. 📽: https://t.co/l8zq3qe6ZU”

01/29/2021

Alumni News: Professor Susan Levin of Smith College publishes a new book: Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism. Levin challenges arguments for transhumanism, showing the notion of humanity's self-transcendence into "posthumanity" to be little more than fantasy. tinyurl.com/96w90eo1

A tightly argued and expansive examination of the pitfalls of transhumanism that reacquaints us with what it means to live well. Advocates of transhumanism, or radical enhancement, urge us to pursue the biotechnological heightening of select capacities -- above all, cognitive ability -- so far beyon...

03/20/2020

Our quiet campus:
https://news.stanford.edu/2020/03/17/a-silent-campus/ #&gid=1&pid=1

03/18/2020

Organizations nationwide need to get ahead of the coronavirus, even if it’s not in their community yet.