哲学研究生课程为学生提供非正式的学习机会，并与该学院的工作紧密联系，该学院的工作已由领先的媒体和期刊出版。我们基本上是一个分析部门，但是我们当然没有正式的定位。师生之间紧密互动的结果是，我们最近的许多博士学位论文都是我们课程的研究生时，它们都被备受推崇的期刊所接受。除此以外，还有合格学生所需要的广泛的教学经验，以及该系对博士学位的安置所作的努力，近年来取得了良好的排名记录。哲学研究生课程是博士学位课程。但是，MA是博士课程的一部分，并在获得博士候选人资格时被授予。除了研究生部门的要求以外，硕士学位候选人还
The Graduate Program in Philosophy has two objectives: to provide you, through course work, with the broad familiarity of a variety of philosophical subjects that you will need to be a well-rounded philosopher and an effective teacher, and to develop your potential as a researcher by giving you an opportunity to do supervised research, culminating in the writing of a doctoral dissertation. Our department is oriented towards analytic philosophy. We have strength in the core areas of: philosophy of language and of logic, philosophy of mind, ethics and political philosophy, epistemology, ancient philosophy, history of modern philosophy, and metaphysics. In sum, graduate students leave UCSB with exceptional teaching skills and a firm grounding in the core areas of philosophy.