Philosophy

Philosophy

Probe life’s most challenging questions.
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Investigate yourself and the world around you.

As a student of Worcester State University’s Philosophy program, you will gain insight into the nature of individuals, societies, and values, while probing life’s most complex questions.

What does it mean to be human? What are race, gender, and sexuality––and what role do they play in society? What are freedom, justice, and truth? Is there a God? As a Worcester State student, you will ponder all these provocative questions and more, exploring philosophical works from the past and present under the guidance of internationally respected faculty scholars. Deepening your thinking and sharpening your rhetorical skills will prepare for a diverse array of career paths, including those in the arts, humanities, and natural and social sciences.

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  • Ancient Greek Philosophy
  • Modern Western Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Ethics
  • Race, Gender, and the Law
  • Buddhist Philosophy
  • Chinese Philosophy
  • Africana Philosophy
  • Latin Philosophy
  • Existentialism and Phenomenology
  • American Philosophy
  • Metaphysics and Epistemology
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The Ethics of Immigration

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As a student in this program, you will be challenged to probe at big questions.

Some examples include:

What is does it mean to be human?
What is gender?
What is race?
What is sexuality?
What are freedom, justice, and truth?
How are bodies and minds related?
How do we agree on terms?
How do we understand each other?
What is time and space?
Is there a God?

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I can't say enough about this department–I love the professors, and it's the perfect minor to complement my Business major.
— Lenny Tran, Business & Philosophy
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I love getting to think deeper, and learning the historical movements of philosophy.
— Gia Henderson, History & Philosophy

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Carter Hardy

Assistant Professor
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Laura Kane

Assistant Professor

Laura W. Kane is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Worcester State University, a faculty fellow for the Clemente Course in the Humanities (Worcester branch), and a member of the Editorial Collective of the Journal of Interactive Technology and [...]

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Frank Boardman

Associate Professor, Chair of Philosophy
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News

New book recovers the story of America’s first black woman political writer and examines roots of black political thought

In her new book, Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought, Professor Emerita Kristin Waters tells a crucial, almost-forgotten story of African Americans of early nineteenth-century America.

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Campus community invited to join Black History Month events throughout February

Students, faculty and staff are celebrating Black History Month with a variety of educational, cultural and history events this month. This week, the University will welcome author and Bowdoin College Professor Anthony Walton at May Street Auditorium.

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Waters Publishes Several Articles on Women in History and Philosophy

Kristin Waters (Philosophy) had her article “Crying Out for Liberty: Maria W. Stewart and David Walker’s Black Revolutionary Liberalism” published in Philosophia Africana, Vol. 15:1, March 2013.

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