Areas of strength in the department include: philosophy of mathematics and logic, logic, history of modern philosophy, history of analytic philosophy, ethics and metaethics, moral psychology and action theory, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.

In addition, the Department of Philosophy is supportive of collaborative work involving other departments and has historically had particularly strong connections with the Departments of Linguistics, Mathematics, Political Science, Psychology, and the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences.