Overview
The Philosophy concentration facilitates students' acquisition of a full understanding of western philosophy since the Age of Enlightenment in four major areas:
• Metaphysics and Epistemology
• Logic and the Philosophy of Language
• Values and Ethics
• Social and Political Philosophy
These areas are meant to serve as a foundational base for more focused and detailed study in the student's primary area of interest. Look at the Program Schedule to see a detailed description of how these broad areas may be used in the creation of a complete program of study.
Program Outcomes
The curriculum gives primacy to individual philosophers and philosophical schools of thought. Throughout the Philosophy curriculum, these threads will be woven:
- Reading with awareness of philosophical contexts, social, political, and cultural
- Synthesizing philosophical systems
- Learning to implement philosophical ideas in academic papers
- Assimilating individual philosophers and placing them in historical perspective
- Identifying philosophers and periods for possible thesis topics
- Finding a collegial temperament for working with faculty and students
