Philosophy is in fact the meeting place for all disciplines, for any discipline becomes philosophical once it begins seriously to examine its own methodology and foundational presuppositions. Philosophy involves both systematic forms of inquiry and a prolonged reflection upon its own history. The Department offers courses in the history of philosophy which span the entire tradition from the pre-Socratics to the philosophers of our own century.
Philosophy is much more than the acquisition of a certain kind of knowledge.
It is the ability to think reflectively about problems at the root of what might appear as self-evident.