Ethos, Diversity, & Outreach

The Philosophy Section aims to create a vibrant and tolerant intellectual community with heterogeneity in backgrounds and opinions, and where the overriding norms are those of civilized rational argument.

PIKSI – Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institutes – are undergraduate and recent graduate institutes committed to elevating and broadening inclusion in philosophy by creating opportunities for those who may not otherwise have access to similar programming and mentorship, empowering them to pursue advanced studies in philosophy and continue on to the professoriate.

PIKSI-Boston is a summer institute organized through a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Harvard University. The institute is held at MIT in the first week of July.

Useful resource: MIT’s Institute Community and Equity Office.