在完成文学硕士，社会哲学文学硕士或博士学位之后，学生将具有：获得高级知识并能够：展示哲学史的知识，展示关于哲学的常年和当代问题的知识，展示特定学科的专业知识哲学领域。从事话语和批判性思维，并且能够：识别日常信念的隐藏前提，表达和评估哲学论点，考虑其他类型的哲学论证，将哲学类别，方法和见解应用于人类感兴趣的其他领域，经验或认知探究<br> <br>我们在“大陆哲学”课程中提供的课程涵盖了在欧洲大陆19世纪和20世纪开发的各种方法。这些方法包括现象学，存在主义，诠释学，批判理论，结构主义，后结构主义和解构主义
Loyola's doctoral program is a premier institution for graduate study in continental philosophy, social and political philosophy, and the history of philosophy. It is also renowned for its strengths in feminism, ethics and value theory, critical philosophy of race, and bioethics. Our department values philosophical pluralism and faculty are informed by a variety of traditions and methodologies, so students are exposed to a range of approaches, both analytic and continental, through their coursework. Loyola thus offers doctoral students a uniquely well-rounded education as well as a diversity of research paths that they can pursue. Entering PhD students must have a Bachelor of Arts degree or its equivalent from an accredited institution. They should have a solid background in philosophy, ordinarily an undergraduate major, including coursework in the history of ancient and early modern European philosophy as well as in metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and social-political philosophy.<br>Our course offerings in Continental Philosophy cover the variety of approaches developed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in continental Europe. These approaches include phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction, and the issues taken up cover the spectrum of philosophy. Among the philosophers covered in depth are Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Habermas, and Lyotard. A number of faculty contribute regularly in this area. Typical course offerings in the area of Continental Philosophy include: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Existentialism, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger.