硕士课程旨在满足多种目的：为学生提供哲学所有核心领域的坚实基础，以及哲学史的全面基础，为在博士一级开展更高级和更专业的工作做准备，为打算继续在与哲学毗邻的跨学科领域工作的人们（如认知科学或应用伦理学和公共政策）提供哲学培训，从而为那些希望探索更高级的哲学研究以实现个人财富的人们提供机会和满意度，或者提供在中学或社区学院教授哲学所需的教育。我们不仅为文学硕士学生提供杰出的哲学教育，还为他提供了一个庞大，活跃且合议制的部门所带来的所有好处，在哲学的许多领域设有众多的座谈会，会议，讲习班和阅读小组。
The M.A. program is intended to serve a number of purposes: to provide students with a solid foundation in all the core areas of philosophy, together with a thorough grounding in the history of philosophy, in preparation for more advanced and specialized work at the doctoral level, to provide philosophical training for those who intend to go on to work in interdisciplinary areas bordering with philosophy, such as cognitive science or applied ethics and public policy, to provide an opportunity for those who wish to explore more advanced study of philosophy for personal enrichment and satisfaction, or to provide the education needed for teaching philosophy at the secondary-school level or at a community college. We offer to M.A. students not only an outstanding education in philosophy, but also all the benefits of being in a large, active, and collegial department, with numerous colloquia, conferences, workshops, and reading groups in many areas of philosophy.