专业描述

Philosophical reflection on fundamental questions about reality, knowledge, and value is an essential element of human culture and of a liberal education. The Department of Philosophy is committed to advancing and transmitting an understanding of these questions and of the history of the heroic struggles to answer them. The Department is also committed to developing the analytical and critical resources required to engage these questions. At the undergraduate level these commitments find expression in a broad spectrum of courses taught by a distinguished, internationally recognized faculty. (Many of these courses satisfy various UNC College of Arts and Sciences distribution requirements.) Identified as one of the “strongest programs” at UNC by The Fiske Guide to Colleges Philosophy courses contribute to a wide variety of interdisciplinary programs and curricula in the College of Arts and Sciences. For those students who would like to pursue philosophy more deeply, the Department offers a substantial major in philosophy that serves as an excellent foundation for more specialized training in philosophy or other graduate and professional disciplines, such as law, medicine, business and management. Philosophy may also be usefully taken as a minor or, as is frequently done, as part of a double major.