• The study of philosophy provides the knowledge and skills to reflect upon, analyze, and examine ourselves and the world we inhabit and is the record of humanity’s quest to understand itself. It also provides the skills that enable life-long learning and versatile professional development.
  • Philosophy majors prepare themselves for a wide range of professional and business occupations that value highly developed skills of analysis, comprehensive thinking, and communication.
  • Students majoring in Philosophy commonly pursue careers in law, medicine, business, technology, public service, teaching, editing and publishing, and academia. In addition to its focus on the liberal art curriculum, the Department of Philosophy offers courses in feminism and gender studies, computation and consciousness, philosophy of science, technology and the environment, and non-Western Philosophies.