Students maintain several lively study groups and organize at least one major conference each semester (e.g. a Workshop on Contemporary 哲学 in the fall and a 电子游戏正规平台生 Student conference in the spring). 还有一年两次的校外社区日, at which faculty and 博士生 undertake extended discussion of professional and social concerns chosen by the students. Some funds are available to assist graduate students who are delivering papers at scholarly conferences.
博士
The doctoral program has long been committed to the study of the history of philosophy with particular attention to developments in contemporary European thought. 尽管如此，它仍致力于多元化, 多样性, 和包容, 开设一系列英美哲学课程, 还有一些学者在当代伦理学领域密切合作, 社会和政治哲学, 批判种族哲学, 认识论, 科学哲学, 以及宗教哲学.
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The department normally can admit five new students to the doctoral program each year. 他们的电子游戏正规平台得到了全额资助, by tuition remission and stipends (graduate assistantships and teaching fellowships), 学制为五年(学制为四年).A. 当他们进入这个项目时). 没有获得M学位的学生进入该项目.A. 得M.A. 在攻读博士学位的路上.D.
All requirements for the doctorate must be completed within eight consecutive years from the beginning of doctoral studies. Extensions beyond this limit may be made only with departmental recommendation and the approval of the Dean of the 电子游戏正规平台生 School of Arts and Sciences.
课程
The department emphasizes the importance of training 博士生 in teaching, 在哲学电子游戏正规平台和写作方面. 博士 students follow a “Professional Development 课程” committed to each of these areas, 是什么让他们为学术生涯做好了准备. 在项目的第一年, doctoral student work closely with faculty members as a 电子游戏正规平台 Assistant, and attend the Teaching Seminar to prepare for the teaching of their own two-semester undergraduate introductory course to philosophy in the following years. 学生们在接下来的三年里每年都要教书, 并在第二年继续参加教学研讨会. 写作研讨会, 面向出版，由一名教员领导, 会议贯穿整个学年. 学生可以参加整个博士电子游戏正规平台.
其他讲习班准备书目电子游戏正规平台, 了解当前学术电子游戏正规平台的主要趋势, 等.，并准备寻找一个学术职位. 最后, 学生保证有最后一年的资助电子游戏正规平台和写作, 除了写论文没有其他义务. 看Ph值.D. 有关时间表和其他细节的手册.
Ph值.D. student must demonstrate proficiency in logic by taking PHIL5577 Introduction to Symbolic Logic with a grade of “B” or better, or by attaining a score of 80% or better on the 逻辑能力 Examination, 或者通过提供与之前的课程工作相比较的证据. 更多细节可以在电子游戏正规平台生学习手册中找到.
Ph值.D. student must demonstrate proficiency in two foreign languages of their choice. These languages should be relevant to their research work (qualifying paper and/or dissertation). 更多细节可以在电子游戏正规平台生学习手册中找到. 熟练程度可以通过1来证明. having received a grade of “B” or better in two semesters of the language at the elementary college level or one semester at the intermediate college level, or 2. in a 12-week summer language class for graduate students at 电子游戏软件, or 3. depending on the language, passing the department’s own language examination. 学生可以在电子游戏软件免费学习语言课程. Language courses do not count towards the philosophy coursework requirement.
博士学位所需的全部课程.D. 是16门课程(48学分). 以M成绩进入课程的学生.A. in philosophy may be given credit for up to six courses (18 credits) toward this requirement, 但必须至少修10门课程(30学分). 没有获得M学位的学生进入该项目.A. 得M.A. 在攻读博士学位的路上.D.
Ph.D. students are expected to pass this examination at the end of their first year in order to be authorized to teach the following year. The exam is based on the syllabus for 哲学 of the Person that the students prepare in the teaching seminar. 更多细节可以在电子游戏正规平台生学习手册中找到.
这次考试, to be taken in the fourth year (third year for the students who already had a master’s degree when they entered the program), 由两部分组成:1. 合格的论文，2. 论文开题. 更多细节可以在电子游戏正规平台生学习手册中找到.
Ph值.D. student is expected to complete a dissertation which embodies original and independent research and which demonstrates advanced scholarly achievement. The research must be carried out and the dissertation written under the direction of a tenure track faculty from the 哲学系. 经主管和第二阅读者确认后, 这篇论文在公开的口头考试中答辩. 更多细节可以在电子游戏正规平台生学习手册中找到.
资金的机会
第一年之后, 博士生, building on the pedagogical techniques acquired through the teaching seminar, 成为助教或助教来赚取津贴, 而他们继续上课. Either they begin right away to teach their own class in full responsibility, 或者在二年级先担任助教, in which case they teach their class in full responsibility from year 3 on. The class they teach is one unit of 哲学 of the Person I in the fall semester and 哲学 of the Person II in the spring semester. 目前课程描述如下:
This course introduces students to philosophical reflection and to its history through the presentation and discussion of the writings of major thinkers from ancient, 中世纪的, 现代, 以及当代时期. The course is designed to show how fundamental and enduring questions about the universe and about human beings recur in different historical contexts and from a range of approaches and methods. 重点是伦理主题, 比如人的本性, 人权的基础和相应的责任, 以及社会公正的问题.
学生生活
在任何给定时间, there are approximately forty students actively at work in various stages of the program, 其中一半以上是在校园里. 我们的许多学生来自其他国家, 包括智利, 中国, 哥伦比亚, 刚果, 印度, 意大利, 西班牙, 英国, 和越南. Those who are from the United States come from a wide range of liberal arts colleges and universities coast to coast. A number spend part of their time in the program conducting research abroad (e.g.(近年来比利时、丹麦、法国、德国、英国).
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For specific questions about the 哲学 department's graduate programs please contact the 电子游戏正规平台生 程序 Assistant, Christopher Hanlon. All other requests on the application process should be made to the 电子游戏正规平台生 School at the 莫里西文理学院.