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A 2026 report on humanities scholarship examines politicization trends, sparking debate across U.S. campuses about scholarly standards, academic freedom, and public trust.
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Paul Boghossian is the Julius Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, where he also serves as Director of the Global Institute for Advanced Study. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1987. Boghossian previously taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and at Princeton University. He was Chair of the NYU Philosophy Department from 1994 to 2004 and is Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy. He holds the position of Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
Boghossian’s research interests are primarily in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He has written on topics including color, rule-following, eliminativism, naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, realism, relativism, the aesthetics of music, and the concept of genocide. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Magdalen College at Oxford, the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, and the Australian National University. He has been a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a Fulbright Senior Specialist, and is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Boghossian served on the Global Citizenship Commission and currently serves on the University of London’s School of Advanced Study Strategic Advisory Board. His books include Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism (Oxford University Press, 2006), Content and Justification: Philosophical Papers (Oxford University Press, 2008), New Essays on the A Priori (edited with Christopher Peacocke, Oxford University Press, 2000), Debating the A Priori (with Timothy Williamson), and New Essays on Normative Realism (edited with Christopher Peacocke, Oxford University Press, 2025). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A 2026 report on humanities scholarship examines politicization trends, sparking debate across U.S. campuses about scholarly standards, academic freedom, and public trust.
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