哲学不仅提供其内在的兴趣，而且还提供可应用于其他学术学科和事业的宝贵的可转移技能。哲学学习不仅可以帮助您组织和统一从其他课程中学到的信息，还可以提高沟通能力，批判性推理能力和一般的解决问题的能力。您可以选择哲学专业，副修或荣誉学位，历史和科学哲学专业，或与其他课程相结合的专业。学生可以在荣誉学位的单个领域中学习激烈的专业。
Philosophy covers everything from fundamental questions about knowledge, the meaning of life, and how to live it, to questions about how to design intelligent robots, the ethics of scientific and technological innovation, and how to evaluate government policies.<br><br>The study of philosophy gives you tools to think carefully and critically about almost any subject that you may be interested in. You will learn how to analyze arguments, construct your own arguments, and understand the historical context of many of today's most pressing problems. Philosophy can help you improve your ability to read, write persuasively, and present your ideas effectively, to analyze and evaluate complicated information usefully, and to solve complex problems.<br><br>UBC's Vancouver campus has strengths in a variety of areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, the analytic tradition, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and feminist philosophy.