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  1. The new members, who have made key contributions in a range of fields, join previously elected fellows in helping to “advance the common good” across the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science.

    Top row, from left, Leah Platt Boustan, Daphne Brooks, Erika J. Edwards, and Vanessa Olivia Ezenwa. Second row, from left, Branden Jacobs Jenkins, Lisa Lowe, Joanne Meyerowitz, and Gideon Yaffe.   Photos courtesy of Yale units and departments. Photo of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, used with permission.
  2. Sun-Joo Shin, Professor of Philosophy, spoke to Digital Watch about student use of AI and how she's reimagining coursework to encourage original thinking and discussion in class.

  3. In a new book, Yale philosopher Robert Gooding-Williams examines W.E.B. Du Bois’ theories on beauty’s power to challenge racism and despair.

    Headshot of Robert Gooding-Williams next to the cover of his book, Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois. (Photo credit: Mara Lavitt)
  4. In a Q&A, Yale’s Stephen Darwall discusses his philosophical analysis of heartfelt phenomena — and the difference between attitudes of the heart and the will.

    A portrait of Stephen Darwall alongside the cover of his book, The Heart & Its Attitudes.
  5. Robert Gooding-Williams is a major figure in the contemporary philosophy of race and a leading historian of Black modern social and political philosophy.

    Robert Gooding-Williams
  6. Meet Tyler Brooke-Wilson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

    Tyler Brooke-Wilson
  7. For Robert Gooding-Williams, returning to Yale as a professor represents not only a homecoming, but the opportunity to build an institutional legacy.

    Professor Gooding Williams
  8. Yale’s Jacob McNulty — a scholar of Hegel, Marcuse, and other European philosophers — explores subjects such as the nature of reality and rational thought, what drives history and politics, and the metaphysical underpinnings of human interaction.

    Jacob McNulty
  9. Michael Della Rocca has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Philosophy, effective immediately.

  10. A member of the Yale faculty since 2011, Paul Franks is a leading thinker on Jewish philosophy and pathbreaking scholar of German Idealist thinking.