Philosophy asks fundamental questions and tries to arrive at reasonable answers.
The University of Rochester offers undergraduate philosophy courses at all levels, a major, minors, and graduate programs leading to Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in philosophy. Its courses deal with epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, history of philosophy, logic, ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion. The Department office is in 523 Lattimore Hall on the River Campus of the University of Rochester. On the same floor are Faculty and TA offices and the Department's Lewis White Beck Memorial Library containing over 10,000 books and journals.