Department of Philosophy (GRAD)
The graduate program in philosophy is designed to equip students to engage with both perennial and cutting-edge philosophical enquiry. The program is intended to prepare students for college and university positions in philosophy.
The Department of Philosophy offers a program of study leading to the Ph.D. in philosophy. Prerequisite for admission to graduate work in the department is a B.A. degree or equivalent, typically with a major in philosophy, with a broad range of courses. Students earn an M.A. as part of the Ph.D. program. For information about graduate student funding, please visit the department's website.
The department maintains close relations with the Department of Philosophy at Duke University. Graduate students from either institution may register for credit in graduate courses or seminars at the other institution and may include faculty members from either on their dissertation committees. Library facilities are available to students at each institution.
Courses
Numbered 400-999:
Candidates for the master's degree must satisfactorily complete 30 semester hours of graduate work. This coursework must include PHIL 700 in the first semester of the program. Candidates must also satisfy a Formal Methods Requirement (normally by taking either PHIL 455 or PHIL 458) as well as various Distribution Requirements detailed in the Handbook of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Successfully completing an M.A. thesis is also a condition for receiving the degree of master of arts.
Candidates for the doctoral degree must satisfactorily complete 60 semester hours of graduate work, including six hours of Ph.D. dissertation credit. There are further Distribution Requirements, again, detailed in the Handbook of the Graduate Program in Philosophy.
The candidate for the degree of doctor of philosophy must pass two examinations. First, there is the Admission to Candidacy examination, which itself has two parts: a written general portion and a special oral portion. The written portion, normally taken in the spring term of the third year, is in the student's field of specialization. The oral portion tests the feasibility of the dissertation proposal and is normally taken in the fall term of the fourth year. Second, there is an oral defense of the completed dissertation. For further details on degree requirements, see The Graduate School Handbook.
More information about the philosophy graduate program may be found on the department's website.
Following the faculty member's name is a section number that students should use when registering for independent studies, reading, research, and thesis and dissertation courses with that particular professor.
Distinguished Professors
Thomas Hofweber (42), Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence
C. D. C. Reeve (39), Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics, Moral Psychology, Ethics
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (25), Moral Theory, Metaethics, Epistemology, History of Modern Philosophy
Professors
Luc Bovens (52), Philosophy and Public Policy, Rationality, Moral Psychology, Formal Epistemology
Thomas Dougherty (55), Ethics, Political Philosophy
Markus Kohl (51), History of Modern Philosophy, History of Ancient Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Existentialism
Matthew Kotzen (46), Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Law
Mariska Leunissen (41), Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Ram Neta (43), Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
James Pryor (57), Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action, Metaphysics
John T. Roberts (37), Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics
Sarah Stroud (54), Moral Theory, Moral Psychology, Metaethics, Philosophy of Action
Rebecca Walker (53), Bioethics, Ethical Theory
Alexander Worsnip (50), Epistemology, Metaethics, Theory of Rationality
Associate Professors
Jessica Keiser (62), Philosophy of Language, Social and Political Philosophy
Patricia Marechal (63), Ancient Philosophy
Daniel Muñoz (58), Ethics, Philosophy of Action
Assistant Professors
Rosalind Chaplin (59), History of Modern Philosophy, Moral Psychology Pietro Cibinel (66), Moral Philosophy, Decision Theory, Epistemology Daniel Herrmann (64), Philosophy of AI, Game and Decision Theory, Formal and Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
Harry Lloyd (65), Moral and Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics, AI
Andrew Rubner (67), Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind Margaret Shea (61), Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Aesthetics
Professors Emeriti
Bernard Boxill Thomas E. Hill Jr. William G. Lycan Douglas MacLean Stanley Munsat Alan Nelson Gerald J. Postema Michael D. Resnik Robert D. Vance Susan Wolf
Department of Philosophy
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