Everything about Philosophy Hall totally explained
Philosophy Hall is a building on the campus of
Columbia University in
New York City. It houses the English, Philosophy, and French departments, along with the university's writing center, part of its registrar's office, and the student lounge of its
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. It is one of the original buildings designed for the university's
Morningside Heights campus by
McKim, Mead, and White, built in the Italian Renaissance Revival style and completed in 1910. Philosophy Hall is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places and has been designated a
National Historic Landmark as the site of the invention of
FM radio by
Edwin Armstrong in the early 1930s.
The space now occupied by the registrar formerly housed
electrical engineering laboratories in which
Michael I. Pupin and
Edwin Howard Armstrong made several major technological breakthroughs. Over the years the building has been home to such notable faculty members as philosophers
John Dewey,
Frederick J. E. Woodbridge and
Ernest Nagel, Guadeloupean novelist
Maryse Condé, French literary scholar
Michael Riffaterre, poet
Kenneth Koch and English literary scholars
Lionel Trilling,
Edward Said,
Carolyn Heilbrun,
Quentin Anderson,
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and
Mark Van Doren.
Philosophy Hall wasn't occupied by protesters during the
1968 protests. It served instead as a refuge for faculty and a site of contentious debates among them concerning student conduct.
The lawn in front of Philosophy Hall is the site of an original cast of
The Thinker (
Le Penseur), one of the most famous pieces by French sculptor
Auguste Rodin.
The hall was designated a
National Historic Landmark in 2003.
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