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Is this a first? It certainly makes sense at Yale, which has philosophically-minded psychologists like Paul Bloom and psychologically-minded philosophers like Joshua Knobe and Laurie Paul.
Not the first, there is one at the Washington University in St. Louis:
https://pnp.artsci.wustl.edu/graduate
Thanks, I knew about the distinguished PNP program, did not realize they awarded their own PhD!
I'm not sure about American PhD programs in recent history, but historically speaking I recall that when psychology was mostly an experimental science in the 19th century, it was housed in philosophy departments, and in France if memory serves me right, it was Bergson who cast them out and that set "the divorce" in motion.
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