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Project Ideas for Philosophy Students

Explore fundamental questions about reality, knowledge, and ethics through thought-provoking research and philosophical inquiry.

🧠 Introduction

Columbia University's Philosophy program provides students with the tools to question, critique, and conceptualize human experience across disciplines. These project ideas draw from classic and contemporary texts to challenge assumptions and encourage critical analysis in logic, ethics, politics, and metaphysics.

📚 Suggested Research Topics

Utilitarianism vs. Deontology: A Modern Ethical Dilemma

Free Will and Determinism in Neuroscience

Rawls’ Theory of Justice in the Age of Economic Inequality

The Simulation Hypothesis: Philosophical and Scientific Views

Existentialism in the Writings of Kierkegaard and Camus

Philosophy of Language: Meaning, Truth, and Interpretation

Moral Relativism vs. Moral Absolutism in Global Ethics

The Logic of Paradox: Analyzing Dialetheism

Feminist Critiques of Traditional Moral Theories

The Concept of Time in Ancient and Modern Metaphysics

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems

Nietzsche’s Will to Power and Modern Identity Politics

Philosophical Foundations of Environmental Ethics

The Epistemology of Conspiracy Theories

Freedom and Authority in Foucault’s Thought

The Ethics of Memory: Responsibility for Historical Injustice

Phenomenology and the Structure of Consciousness

Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language

Is Democracy a Philosophically Justifiable System?

The Role of Rationality in Religious Belief

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