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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
New Faculty Book: Yitzhak Melamed (co-editor), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy
Congratulations to Yitzhak Melamed on the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy, a nuanced overview of the history and development of Jewish philosophy, from antiquity up to current trends […]
Sean Carroll awarded the Stefanopoulous Prize in Philosophy
Congratulations to Sean Carroll who has been awarded the Stefanopoulous Prize in Philosophy. In connection with this, he will deliver a lecture entitled “Find Yourself in the Universe” at Marist University. Past recipients of the prize […]