PHILOSOPHY   (PHIL)

Available as a major on the B.A. degree and as a minor on the B.A. or B.S. degree.

General Guidelines. The study of academic philosophy is unfamiliar and often intimidating to most beginning college students. But those students who do study philosophy quickly learn that philosophical issues touch on all aspects of life. Philosophy deals with issues such as the nature of scientific inquiry, the relationship between law and morality and whether there is any common set of features to be found within human nature. Although approaching these issues with the rigors of the philosophical method is both new and challenging to beginning students, most of those who study philosophy usually find the experience both an interesting and rewarding one in which they learn much about themselves and the world in which they live.