Philosophy Department

哲学专业的学生探索自公元前585年以来一直处于西方知识传统核心的主题，如逻辑和爱、上帝和科学，这些主题在21世纪仍然是人类关注的焦点。 

These questions have intrigued generation after generation, and they continue to fascinate the thoughtful person, even though many of these questions appear to be very difficult, if not outright impossible, to answer.

Where Intellectual Curiosity Leads Us

The beauty of philosophy is the discovery that rational inquiry is not always intended to find specific answers to specific questions. It's a process of intellectual growth available to anyone with a sufficient degree of intellectual curiosity.

Among the broad and enduring questions in the Western intellectual tradition:

• What is the right way for human beings to live their lives?
• What is the ultimate structure of reality as we encounter it?
• What is human knowledge and how do we come to have it? Can other sorts of beings have anything like knowledge in the same sense that we have it?
• Is there a God, and, if so, what are the properties that God has?
• What is the nature and structure of scientific inquiry?
• What are the fundamental components of rational thought and practical reasoning?

Faculty Research Areas

Center for Applied and Professional Ethics