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Philosophy

The department, through a varied and extensive program of courses, presents students with past and present attempts to think critically and reflectively about fundamental questions of knowledge and value in order that they will be led to examine their own views. The study of philosophical problems in the spirit of free inquiry requires the student to develop and exercise the powers of precise discrimination, creative imagination, logical organization and evaluative judgment.

Strange Looks from Tourists for Sam Thacker '08

Sam, a Philosophy and Economics double major who "got into my philosophy major really late," seems to have made up for the lost time.

Harris's NEH Seminar Explores Principles of Separation

James F. Harris, Jr., Haserot Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, directed an NEH Summer Seminar in 2006 titled "The Principles of Separation of Church and State."