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The Department of Philosophy has been a bedrock of the Penn State community for more than one hundred years. Students come to us to delve into philosophical theory, explore its historical and cultural impact, and tackle today’s pressing social issues.
Graduate training in philosophy at Penn State focuses on these areas while providing all graduate students with a strong foundation in the history of philosophy and a broad training that includes work in ethics.
Director of the Penn State Humanities Institute; Professor of Philosophy, Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. (814) 865-4190.
Students will develop in-depth experience with parts of ancient philosophy that go beyond what they receive in Philosophy/CAMS 200: Ancient Philosophy. They will also hone reading, interpretative, argumentative, and creative philosophical skills on the relevant texts, which are among the most fascinating, puzzling, and frequently referenced of ...
The Philosophy major provides in-depth study of fundamental issues that inescapably confront all persons, such as ethics, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, epistemology, philosophy of science, and logic.
The Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Phil.) is an intercollege degree program that allows students to work with a faculty mentor to create their own, individually tailored undergraduate major and personalized curriculum.
The Bachelor Philosophy program’s mission is to enable Penn State undergraduate students, in partnership with a faculty mentor, to pursue a unique, individualized course of study that existing programs cannot accommodate and to undertake in-depth scholarship within their chosen area of interest.
Majors in philosophy acquire intellectual abilities crucial for self-fulfillment, responsible participation in public life, and success in a wide range of careers—including law, business, education, journalism, medicine, and public service.
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Books and articles on ethics, aesthetics, social psychology, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. Includes links to full text when available.