Doctor's degrees in Philosophy: A program that focuses on ideas and their logical structure, including arguments and investigations about abstract and real phenomena. Includes instruction in logic, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, symbolism, and history of philosophy, and applications to the theoretical foundations and methods of other disciplines.
Requirements for the Ph.D. are as follows: one year of full-time residence; course work (cf. below under Course Work); proficiency in logic; proficiency in two foreign languages; preliminary comprehensive examination; doctoral comprehensive examination; dissertation; and oral defense of the dissertation. Doctoral students are generally admitted with financial aid in the form of Research Assistantships and Teaching Fellowships. Research assistants...
The Doctor of Philosophy degree requires the completion of 16 courses, passing examinations for reading knowledge of a foreign language, passing the logic examination, passing the written Comprehensive Examinations, writing a doctoral dissertation, and passing a final oral examination on the dissertation.
While there are no distribution requirements, students are expected to acquire a broad knowledge of the field of philosophy and to demonstrate...
The department offers a program covering a wide range of fields in systematic philosophy and the history of philosophy. Among the special strengths of the department are moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, the history of analytic philosophy, ancient philosophy, Kant, and Wittgenstein.
Substantial previous knowledge of philosophy is normally required. Candidates usually have a bachelor's...
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