博士 该计划旨在在六年或更短的时间内完成。研究生课程涵盖了一系列广度要求，旨在提供学生可以构建自己的个人项目的共同经验，以及可以在其中交换思想的共享框架。在第一年，学生将至少修读形而上学和认识论领域的一门课程，哲学史的一门课程，以及道德哲学的一门课程。在学习的第一年，所有学生必须通过逻辑能力考试，成绩达到B或更高。该考试将涵盖通常在形式逻辑的第一门课程中讲授的材料。经研究生课程主任批准，可以代替考试完成哲学9 /逻辑入门。
Philosophy admitted its first doctoral students in 2001. As of Fall 2023 there are 22 graduate students in the program. Each year 4-5 new Ph.D. and 1-3 M.A. students will be admitted.<br><br>The Department has four areas of focus, Ethics and Technology, Social & Epistemic Injustice, Disagreement & Rationality, and Public Engagement (see the About page). The department's faculty also have an interest in the history of philosophy as an indispensable background to the main areas of contemporary concern in the discipline. Among the faculty's main contemporary interests are those topics commonly pursued in any high-ranking research and teaching program, and particularly those comparable to departments of philosophy at other UC's: philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, aesthetics, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, ethics and moral psychology (see the Research page). The faculty's research and teaching in these areas is informed by leading historical figures, including especially Kant, Aristotle, Hume, Wittgenstein andagain, uniquely for such a small departmentleading figures from the Middle Ages and late antiquity, including medieval Islamic figures.<br><br>The Ph.D. program is designed to be completed in six years or less.