The Christian faith addresses all areas of human life. The breadth and variety of philosophic topics affords the college student a good and contrasting preparation for the more specialized theological and pastoral education offered in seminaries. I plan on attending medical school. Many of these are scientific, but many are not. The study of ethics helps to increase the moral sensitivity of future doctors.
Philosophy of science deepens their understanding of the disciplines they study and call on.
And the entire field of philosophy offers them a more profound grasp of those human beings it will be their calling to help and to heal. I am majoring in the natural sciences. Philosophy helps the scientist and the student in the sciences to be a more reflective practitioner of his or her discipline. The analysis of the methods and ultimate goals of science, its assumptions and the role of values in it, all indicate areas belonging to the philosophical reflection on science rather than to science proper. Indeed, many of these topics are raised in the course in the philosophy of science offered by our department.