The Jesuit tradition of education always has championed the importance of philosophy, both for training the mind and for inculcating a love of truth and an integrity in its pursuit.
Philosophy invites a student into dialogue with the great truth-seekers of the western tradition.
Thus it hopes to develop within the student a personal confidence and caring, and a life-long commitment to the search for wisdom and justice and the things that really matter in human life. In addition to completing the core curriculum requirements, outlined on pp. As graduation requirements, philosophy majors must pass in the second semester of the senior year a comprehensive one-hour oral examination and write and deliver a senior thesis. The examination will concern a book chosen by the student from an approved reading list and a list of thematic questions provided by the philosophy faculty. The paper will be the result of a metaphysics course, or independently prepared by the student on another subject of interest.