The Department of Philosophy is ranked 11th in the country, and as good or excellent (with a rating of 4.0 or better) in the following areas, according to a recent Gourmet Guide to Graduate Study in Philosophy:

• ancient philosophy
• Indian philosophy
• philosophy of language
• ethics and philosophy of law
• philosophical logic
• metaphysics
• philosophy of mind
• nineteenth-century Continental philosophy after Hegel

It supports special programs in ancient philosophy, law and philosophy, and history and philosophy of science.