Associate Degree in Philosophy at Everett Community College |
Everett Community College
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Everett Community College is a Public, 2-year Associate's--Public Urban-serving Single Campus with 7,674 students in Everett, WA.
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This school offers the following degree levels:
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate, Certificates/Less-than-2-year Certificate, Associate degree, Certificates/Less-than-4-year Certificate |
| Also, students of this school are eligible for federal aid such as Pell Grants and Direct Loans from the US Department of Education. |
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Mission:
The primary mission of Everett Community College is to provide quality education in an atmosphere that encourages all students to achieve their educational goals. Through effective teaching and supportive student services, the College prepares students to be lifelong learners, responsible community members, and citizens of a rapidly changing world. To accomplish this mission, the College will…
Provide equal access to educational opportunities for all students;
Maintain high standards of excellence in instructional programs and student services;
Promote a sense of campus community characterized by mutual support and open communication;
Encourage diversity, collegiality, and professionalism;
Collaborate with regional businesses, agencies, schools, and universities to create mutually beneficial partnerships. |
Everett Community College
Associate degree
Philosophy
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General Information about the Study of Philosophy
What is philosophy? What do philosophers do? Surprisingly, even philosophers ask these questions. Not because they do not know what they are doing, but because asking questions is what philosophers do. ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’, ‘What is it to be good?’, ‘What is the nature of reality?’ are some other philosophical questions.
You might notice that other disciplines ask similar questions. Theologians also ask why there is something and what goodness is. Physicists ask what reality really is. What sets philosophy apart from other disciples is how it approaches these questions. It uses reason, rather than sacred texts or empirical experiment. In particular, philosophers employ the main form of reasoning; argumentation, when answering these questions.
The main goal of the philosophy department at EvCC is to equip students with the basic tools and tool usage of a philosopher; to make explicit the argumentative aspects of thought that provide the analytic filter through which the merit of many ideas and claims, found in daily life, in the study of another intellectual discipline or in philosophy itself, may be judged.
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