Read about undergraduate alumnus Marc Friedman’s reflections on his time as a JHU philosophy major.
Johns Hopkins History of Philosophy
Mavis Biss
Asking the Big Questions
In the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy, students are provided a broad and analytically rigorous philosophical education, with particular areas of strength in philosophy of mind and language, the history of philosophy, philosophy of science, moral psychology, metaphysics, and epistemology.
- Degrees Offered BA, BA/MA, PhD
- Major Philosophy
- Minor Philosophy, Bioethics
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Faculty
Scholarship by our world-renowned faculty addresses a wide range of topics in theoretical philosophy, value, and the history of philosophy.
PhD Program
The department prepares graduate students to make original contributions to the field and to pursue careers in college and university teaching.
Undergraduate
The department offers a Major in Philosophy, a Minor in Philosophy, an accelerated BA/MA program, and collaborates with the Berman Institute of Bioethics to offer a Minor in Bioethics.
Department News
Marc Friedman ’68 on “How Dr. Mandelbaum Changed My Life: The Transformative Power of Philosophy”
Chaz Firestone wins Gittler Award!
Congratulations to Chaz Firestone, who has been awarded the Joseph B. Gittler Award for scholarly contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge! More info here.
Graduate Student Shozo Kamiya in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Congratulations to Shozo Kamiya for the publication of his paper “Divine teleology in Spinoza’s thought: an underexplored side of Spinoza’s philosophical journey” in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy! […]