CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
Graduate Study
CHAPTER 2
Admission and
Registration
CHAPTER 3
Degree
Requirements
CHAPTER 4
Fields
of Study
CHAPTER 5
Members of
Graduate Studies
Committees
APPENDIX
Course
Abbreviations
Philosophy
Degrees Offered
Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy
Areas of Study
The Department of Philosophy offers areas of concentration across the discipline and offers special programs in cooperation with other departments: (1) ancient philosophy, with the Department of Classics; (2) history and philosophy of science, with the Department of History; and (3) philosophy and cognitive science, with the Departments of Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Sciences. For descriptions of these programs, students should consult the graduate adviser, Department of Philosophy.
Graduate Studies Committee
The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2002-2003.
| Edwin B. Allaire
Ignazio Angelelli Nicholas M. Asher Daniel A. Bonevac Robert S. Boyer David Braybrooke Grayson Douglas Browning J. Budziszewski Robert Louis Causey Joshua Dever James S. Fishkin Anthony Gillies R. J. Hankinson Kathleen M. Higgins Herbert I. Hochberg Cory Juhl Robert Hilary Kane | Robert Charles Koons
Frederick M. Kronz Brian Leiter Louis H. Mackey Aloysius P. Martinich Alexander P. D. Mourelatos Stephen H. Phillips R. Mark Sainsbury Sahotra Sarkar Thomas K. Seung Tara Smith Robert C. Solomon E. David Sosa Michael Tye Stephen A. White Paul B. Woodruff |
Degree Requirements
Master of Arts
The master's degree program with report requires completion of Philosophy 384F and 398R; twenty-one additional semester hours of graduate coursework in philosophy; and six hours of upper-division or graduate coursework in a supporting subject. The master's degree program with thesis requires completion of twenty-four hours of graduate coursework in philosophy, including Philosophy 698; and six hours of upper-division or graduate coursework in a supporting subject.
Doctor of Philosophy
In addition to the general requirements given in chapter 3, the requirements for the doctoral degree are as follows:
- Philosophy 384F and 389, completed in the first year of graduate study.
- A graduate course in each of the following: history of philosophy (any period up to or including Kant), metaphysics and epistemology, and ethics.
- Philosophy 398T, a one-semester teaching internship.
- Five additional graduate courses in philosophy
- Demonstration of proficiency in a foreign language. The required level of proficiency is that demonstrated by having completed four semesters of coursework or passing an equivalent examination.
- Three courses of supporting work.
- Completion and defense of a dissertation prospectus, by the end of the third year.
- Completion and defense of a dissertation.
For More Information
Campus address: Waggener Hall (WAG) 329, phone (512) 471-6093, fax (512) 471-4806; campus mail code: C3500
Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program, Department of Philosophy, 1 University Station C3500, Austin TX 78712-0310
E-mail: jilljg@mail.utexas.edu
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/
Graduate Catalog
Contents
Chapter 1 - Graduate Study
Chapter 2 - Admission and Registration
Chapter 3 - Degree Requirements
Chapter 4 - Fields of Study
Chapter 5 - Members of Graduate Studies Committees
Appendix - Course Abbreviations
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