Department of Philosophy

The one-year master's degree program in Philosophy has two main goals: (1) to provide students further grounding in the discipline and thereby enable them to apply to top-ranked doctoral programs in philosophy; and (2) to offer students the opportunity to obtain a Master of Arts degree in philosophy to advance their chosen careers.

The program offers students a basic grounding in the discipline that ranges across the major areas currently in play in contemporary philosophy. Although the program does not offer separate tracks, students are able to specialize in the particular strengths of our department: metaphysics and epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, early modern philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of law.

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