作为一个小型部门，我们通过全额资助的课程提供硕士学位，该课程经过精心设计，以填补哲学研究生教育的特殊领域。我们为期两年的基于课程的计划面向那些已决定攻读哲学博士学位但仍缺乏进入世界上最好的哲学系所需的背景或学术记录的学生。该系在伦理学，心灵哲学，科学哲学方面特别强大，我们在认识论和形而上学领域以及早期现代史，分析哲学和逻辑史领域拥有专业知识。几位教职员工对心理学，神经科学和认知科学的实证研究具有浓厚兴趣。完成11门哲学课程：一门必须是专业研讨会，PHIL 880，必须在研究生的第一年完成；两门课程可以是经
As a small department, we offer the MA degree through a fully-funded program carefully designed to fill a special niche in philosophy graduate education. Our course-based, two-year program is geared towards students who have decided to pursue a PhD in philosophy, yet currently lack the background or academic record required for entry into the world's best philosophy departments. The department is particularly strong in Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, and we have expertise in areas of Epistemology and Metaphysics, as well as in History of Early Modern, Analytic Philosophy and Logic. Several faculty members have strong interests in empirical research in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science. Completion of 11 philosophy courses: one must be the Pro-seminar, PHIL 880, completed in the first graduate year, two courses may be a 300 or 400 level undergraduate course with graduate studies committee permission, completed with a grade of A- or higher. The remainder must be graduate courses. demonstrated competence in such foreign languages as the departmental graduate committee requires for the proposed research. demonstrated competence in formal logic up to standard metatheory for first order logic, or higher when relevant to the proposed research.