The 哲学系 faculty at St. Edward’s University help prepare students to become innovative and logical thinkers with a wide range of marketable skills — from rational analysis and analytical thinking to critical inquiry and logical problem solving.
Through the in-depth study of life’s fundamental questions, students taking courses in the 哲学系 will grow as individuals while preparing for many professional fields. Our majors examine 传统的哲学领域, such as logic, epistemology, political theory and religion. They may also explore ethics and debate moral dilemmas in medicine, business, the environment, public policy and law.
Graduates from our department often continue their education with graduate degrees in philosophy, law or medicine.
Your degree plan and how to get in touch with your instructor (see below).
And for more information, you can always contact Dr. Jack Musselman in Holy Cross Hall 414 or our Department Chair, Dr. Mark Cherry, in Holy Cross Hall 417.
Still want to learn more about truth and justice, right and wrong?
Talk to Dr. Peter A. Wake in Holy Cross Hall 418.
Study philosophy to learn how to live, to get a LSAT、GRE和GMAT成绩最高, and a great job, and 学习商科和化学专业的学生.
今天哲学的重要性: 不要忽视人文学科, by Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
John Cleese: Why Philosophy is Nothing to Laugh About
哲学在塑造领导者中的作用: How Philosophy Makes You a Better Leader, by David Brendel, 哈佛商业评论
哲学在商业中的作用: The Unexpected Way Philosophy Majors Are Changing the World of Business, by Carolyn Gregoire, The Huffington Post
Even a magazine devoted to people studying psychology published an article that philosophy is a great major for getting great jobs!
And don't just take it from professors on campus! 哲学是一门伟大的专业 spells out all the reasons to become a lover of wisdom right now!
Even the 福布斯杂志社论版 thinks philosophy majors are well worth it!
And here's a 著名哲学家海报 to hang on your wall--unless you'd rather just read a long list of famous philosophy majors.
对所有这些说法持怀疑态度? Excellent! 你已经准备好成为哲学专业的学生了! And don't trust us just because we said all this. Ask St. 爱德华心理学教授 Alan Swinkels,英语教授(兼律师) Drew Loewe, French professor (and Department Chair) Philippe Seminet大学研究教授 Cory Lock副总裁 Admission Tracy Manier if their B.A. degrees in philosophy prepared them for life and work. They're bound to tell you it really helped them prepare for careers and more.
你们的哲学系是 only one on campus where each and every faculty member won the university's Distinguished Teaching Award: viz., Mark Cherry in 2003, Peter Wake in 2010, and Jack Musselman in 2018.
四位职业顾问 职业和专业发展 office (Moody Hall 134, phone 512-448-8530) can help you find an internship that works for you! 作为一名哲学专业的学生,你的技能——1.e. critical and analytical reasoning to provide clear and compelling arguments--are in demand by non-profits, 营利机构和政府雇主. So, go to Moody Hall 134 and talk to a career counselor to get an internship. After that, go talk to your philosophy faculty about how that internship can become a philosophy course under their supervision.
Juniors and seniors majoring in either Philosophy or 宗教及神学研究 may receive the Lillian Cervenka Scholarship and Arthur Kinsella Scholarship. These two departments alternate every other year giving this scholarship and recipients are selected by the faculty in Philosophy or the faculty in 宗教及神学研究. 获奖者将在圣. 爱德华大学荣誉之夜.
奥斯汀社区学院: take 在ACC学了两年哲学 and then transfer to St. Edward's to get a B.A. in philosophy.
美国哲学协会: the main U.S. 哲学家组织
Philosophy Matters: a Facebook page of articles, news, editorials and cartoons
Philosophy Now: a magazine of ideas
St. Edward's University 哲学系 Facebook page
斯坦福哲学百科全书: professional philosophers share interesting articles
Two alumni have been Fulbright scholars and many others have been admitted to graduate studies at American University, Baylor University, Boston College, Brandeis University, DePaul University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), École Normale supsamrieure (ENS ., Paris), Emory University, Harvard University, 休斯顿大学, the University of Kansas, 路易斯安那州立大学, 洛约拉玛丽蒙特大学, 密苏里大学, Loyola University, 新社会研究学院, 北科罗拉多大学, the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po, Paris), 宾夕法尼亚大学, Purdue University, Stanford University, St. Mary's University, the University of Texas, Texas State University, Texas Tech University, Texas Women's University, 艺术大学(柏林), 威廉姆斯学院和威廉与玛丽学院.
Our alumni work as lawyers 还有警察和哲学 professors and art history professors, as cultural critics and journalists and musicians and artists, as employees for Apple and Airbnb and as K-12 teachers and social workers and as USDA Forest Service firefighters, and one of our alumni is the 捆扎罐啤酒厂的首席酿酒师 in Utah.
Associate Professor of Philosophy Jack Musselman explores the political, ethical and moral trade-offs of living greener in the 21st century in this overview of his Environmental Ethics course.