Michigan has ranked among the top ten philosophy doctoral programs in national assessments spanning five decades, with strengths in all the main areas of philosophy – ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language & mind, philosophy of science, and aesthetics – and in the history of Western philosophy, from antiquity to the present. We encourage interdisciplinary work, to take advantage of the University’s great strength across fields, and offer courses of special interest to students in Art and Design, Classical Studies, Economics, History, Law, Linguistics, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Women’s Studies. The Department traces its origins to 1843, when a professorship of moral intellectual sciences was first occupied, and has included many illustrious faculty, such as John Dewey and Charles Stevenson, since then.

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Undergraduate Advising Appointment

Spring 2012 Undergraduate Course Guide

Summer 2012 Undergraduate Course Guide

Spring/Summer and Fall GSI Positions

Tanner Lecture on Human Values

John Broome’s Tanner Lecture on Human Values will be held on March 15 in the Michigan League.

Marshall M. Weinberg Symposium 2012: Bilingualism

A symposium featuring philosopher Gilbert Harman (Princeton) will be held on March 29 in the Rackham Amphitheater.