哲学系提供的课程涵盖系统哲学和哲学史的广泛领域。该系的特殊优势包括道德和政治哲学，认识论，逻辑哲学，语言哲学，分析哲学史，早期现代哲学，康德伦理学和维特根斯坦。除了标准的哲学博士学位外，该系还与古典学系合作提供古典哲学博士学位，与南亚研究系合作提供印度哲学博士学位，并联合开展JD / PhD联合计划在哈佛法学院。在下面，您将找到每个程序的要求列表。该系的研究生课程本质上是博士学位课程。由于接受过哲学高级训练的男女的主要工作是在需要博士学位的大学教学中进行，因此该部门通常不会招收仅希望攻读硕士学位（AM）的
The graduate program in philosophy at Harvard offers students the opportunity to work and to develop their ideas in a stimulating and supportive community of fellow doctoral students, faculty members, and visiting scholars. Among the special strengths of the department are moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, the history of analytic philosophy, ancient philosophy, Kant, and Wittgenstein. The typical entering class ranges from five to eight students. This small size helps foster a sense of community among doctoral students and ensures that they have substantial access to and interaction with their faculty colleagues. In addition to the standard PhD in philosophy, the department offers a PhD in classical philosophy in collaboration with the Department of the Classics and a coordinated JD/PhD program in conjunction with Harvard Law School. The department's graduate program is essentially a PhD program. Because the principal employment for men and women with advanced training in philosophy is in college teaching requiring the PhD, the department ordinarily does not admit applicants who wish to study only for the master's (AM) degree. The AM may be taken as a step toward the PhD after a minimum of two terms in residence. A candidate for the AM must satisfy the preliminary, distribution, and logic requirements for the PhD, however, the preliminary requirement is reduced to ten half-courses, and only seven of the eight distribution units are required for the AM. In addition, the second-year paper requirement must be satisfied. There is no language requirement for the AM.