The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, one of antiquity’s greatest thinkers, was a student of Plato and a tutor to ...

Plato, the most intelligent of Socrates’ students, laid the foundations of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, and ...

The typical college general education curriculum, fractured into discipline-based silos, often fails to engage students with the profound questions and pressing controversies that shape human life and ...

I learned how to read the social-science canon in the late 1960s at Brandeis University, where I also took courses with Philip Rahv on modern fiction, Alasdair MacIntyre on the history of ethics ...

Research-led Teaching: We have particular strengths in the areas of ethics and political philosophy. Our Philosophy department offers expertise in continental and analytical philosophy, logic, ...