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Philosophy/Critical Theory

About

Activities in this cluster engage in collaborative critical theory scholarship across the disciplines (e.g., in law, history, literature, sociology, philosophy), and across interdisciplinary areas (including critical race theory, queer theory, feminist theory, crip/disability theory), while also taking up diverse specializations in the field of philosophy. For example, working groups explore an array of critical theory issues, such as the interplay between knowledge norms and structural inequality, or the politics, histories, sociologies, and embodiments of knowledge, while other groups focus more on specializations in philosophy as a field (e.g., ethics, social and political philosophy, Anglo-American philosophy, metaphysics, continental philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, existentialism, epistemology, logic, and more).

Topics

Philosophy Critical Theory

Activities

Writing Retreat

May 30, 2025, 3 p.m.

Hospitality Within: Migrant Literature and the Translation Effect

May 2, 2025, 1 p.m.

Workshop on Women Philosophers

April 12, 2025, 10 a.m.

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Groups

PCT1: Creighton Club - Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy
Open to New People Active since: 2013
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Colgate University
PCT6: Critical Theory - Continental Philosophy
Open to New People Active since: 2013
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
PCT7: Ancient Philosophy
Open to New People Active since: 2013
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Colgate University
  • Union College
PCT11: Theorizing Italy
Active since: 2018 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
PCT12: Moral Psychology
Open to New People Active since: 2018
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Le Moyne College
PCT13: CNY Religious Studies Consortium
Inactive since: 2021
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Colgate University
  • Hamilton College
PCT16: Loving While Black: Critical Reflections
Inactive since: 2021
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Colgate University
PCT17: Genealogy in the Humanities
Open to New People Active since: 2020
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
PCT3: Upstate New York Workshop in Modern Philosophy (UNYWMP)
Open to New People Active since: 2013
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Skidmore College
  • Union College
PCT4: Graduate Student Exchange
PCT5: Political Theology
PCT8: Late Antiquity
Inactive since: 2014
PCT9: CNY Ethics
PCT15: Athena in Action
PCT18: Political Disobedience
Open to New People Active since: 2023
  • Cornell University
  • Union College
PCT19: Federation of Infrastructure Scholars in the Humanities (FISH)
Open to New People Active since: 2024
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
PCT20: Marxisms Working Group
Open to New People Active since: 2024
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University