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。哲学史课程是该系课程的重要组成部分。我们提供的课程涵盖从古代哲学到19世纪每个哲学时期的主要人物，并包括道德哲学的历史。我们的大多数教师定期在这方面教书。
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>Courses in the History of Philosophy form a significant part of the department's curriculum. The courses we offer cover the major figures of each philosophical period from ancient philosophy through the 19th century, and include the history of moral philosophy. A majority of our faculty teach regularly in this area. Typical course offerings include: Plato, Aristotle, Presocratics, Neoplatonism, Early Medieval.