通过该专业，您将培养在其他学术学科和工作场所取得成功所必需的技能，例如，确定职位，政策或实践的要点的能力，在辩论中阐明潜在问题的能力，思想和表达方式，论点评估的清晰性和严谨性以及做出合理说服力的案例的能力。学会批判性地处理各种历史和当代文本，识别和提出哲学问题，并评估对它们的建议答案。作为哲学系的学生，您将精通辨别和提出概念上的区别，并能够在哲学研究和广泛的智力活动中有效地运用它们。
Philosophy explores fundamental and important questions such as 'How am I to live', 'What do I know', and 'Why should I care' Cultivate critical thinking and intellectual perspectives crucial for adapting to fast-changing social, political and academic environments. Learn to think precisely, deliberate carefully, and communicate ideas in vivid and persuasive ways.Through this major you will develop skills that are fundamental to success in other academic disciplines and in the workplace, such as the ability to identify the essential points of a position, policy or practice; the ability to clarify underlying issues in a debate; precision of thought and expression; clarity and rigor in assessment of arguments and the ability to make rationally persuasive cases.Learn to engage critically with a wide variety of historical and contemporary texts, identify and formulate philosophical problems and assess proposed answers to them. As a Philosophy student you will become adept at discerning and formulating conceptual distinctions and will be able to wield them usefully, both in the study of philosophy and in wider intellectual engagements.This major teaches sensitivity in interpretation and cultural competence through study of a variety of ages and traditions. You will learn intellectual honesty and fairness by evaluating arguments carefully, and will discuss matters of the highest importance without recourse to insult or susceptibility to take offense.