Congratulations to Mason Westfall and EJ Green who won the Poster Prize at the 2026 Society for Philosophy and Psychology meeting for their work on “The Structure of Perceptual Event Representations”. This […]
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
Jenann Ismael named the 2027 Patrick Romanell Lecturer
The American Philosophical Association has named William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy Jenann Ismael the 2027 Patrick Romanell Lecturer. From the selection committee: “Jenann Ismael’s work spans philosophy of physics, […]
Hanna Pickard interviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books
Click here for “Beyond a Theory of Irresistible Desire,” a conversation between Hanna Pickard and Aaron Bornstein on her work on addicition.