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The Graduate Program in Philosophy

Graduate Degree

Stanford's graduate program in Philosophy is by any measure among the world's best. We attract excellent students, we provide them ample access to leading scholars for instruction and advice, and we turn out accomplished philosophers ready to compete for the best jobs in a very tight job market. We offer both MA and PhD degrees.

Doctoral Program

Masters Program

Community

Our graduate students are part of a vigorous philosophical community. Our tradition is to treat and regard our graduate students as much like colleagues as like students. Faculty and graduate students participate in workshops, in reading groups, in colloquium discussions and in nearly all department life on an equal basis. The Department covers the cost of graduate student participation in lunches and dinners with visiting speakers. Our graduate students participate in the running of the department. Two graduate students serve as representatives at department meetings, a graduate student serves on the Graduate Studies Committee, and graduate students also serve on faculty hiring committees. Graduate students are essential to our efforts to recruit new graduate students each year.

• Graduate students have a lively society of their own, the Hume Society that is responsible for a range of both intellectual and social events.
  • The Hume Society includes:
    • Past Hume Society Officers
• Graduate students take a mixture of courses and seminars both in our department and in other departments. They also regularly take directed reading courses or independent study courses when special needs are not met by scheduled courses or when students are working directly on their dissertations.

Events

Our calendar is packed with a range of philosophical events. We have a regular Colloquia series with visiting speakers on Friday afternoons. Our Colloquia are followed by receptions for the speakers hosted by the graduate students followed by dinner with the speaker. In addition to the regular colloquia series, every year we host the Immanuel Kant Lectures. Our graduate students, along with other local graduate students, organize the Berkeley/Stanford/Davis Conference where every year graduate students have the opportunity to present papers to an even larger philosophical community.

• Many more informal reading and research groups, including:
  • Social Ethics and Normative Theory Workshop
  • Global Justice and Political Theory Workshop
  • Logical Methods in the Humanities Workshop
• These groups exist within the department and the university and are able to invite speakers from all across the world.

Centers

• The affiliated Center for Ethics in Society hosts many different events including:
  • Annual lectures such as Tanner Lectures in Human Values
  • Wesson Lectures on democratic theory and practice
  • Arrow Lecture Series on Ethics and Leadership
  • A vast range of other conferences, lectures, and workshops on ethics and political philosophy
• The Center for the Explanation of Consciousness (CEC) is a research initiative at Center for Study of Language and Information which is devoted to studying materialistic explanations of consciousness.
  • The CEC hosts talks and symposia from a variety of viewpoints exploring the nature of conscious experience.
  • They also sponsor reading groups during the term, led by faculty and graduate students.

Undergraduate Program

• WAYS Requirements
• Philosophy Major
  • Philosophy and Literature Subplan
  • History and Philosophy of Science Subplan
• Philosophy and Religious Studies Major
• Honors
• Philosophy Minor
• Advising
• Philosophy Directed Reading Program
• The Dualist

Academics

• Why Philosophy?
• Graduate Program
  • Graduate Admissions
  • Advising
  • Doctoral Program
    • PhD Financial Support
  • Job Placement
  • Masters Program
  • Coterminal Masters
  • Graduate Life
    • Advice for Succeeding in Grad School
    • Hume Society
      • Past Hume Society Officers
  • Philosophy Directed Reading Program
• Undergraduate Program
  • WAYS Requirements
  • Philosophy Major
    • Philosophy and Literature Subplan
    • History and Philosophy of Science Subplan
  • Philosophy and Religious Studies Major
  • Honors
  • Philosophy Minor
  • Advising
  • Philosophy Directed Reading Program
  • The Dualist
• Courses
• Affiliated Academic Programs

Research

• Research Overview
• Publications
• Reading Groups and Workshops
  • Berkeley-Stanford Circle in Logic and Philosophy
  • Minorities and Philosophy, Stanford Chapter

Public Philosophy

• Philosophy Talk
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Faculty Online

News & Events

• Events
  • Philosophy Wednesday Nights
  • Past Events
• Kant Lecture Series
• Colloquia Series

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