哲学 concerns the study of fundamental questions that arise in different areas of human experience, thought, or practice. These include but are not limited to, questions such as: What is reality? 上帝存在吗？ 什么是善和正义？ 我该怎么办呢？ 自我的本质是什么？ 人类的存在有意义吗？ Students who engage with these questions and are able to think and articulate viewpoints clearly and in an informed fashion not only enhance their own lives, but contribute significantly to improving their interpersonal relationships, community and society; laying the foundations for a critical and meaningful discussion about social issues, justice, politics and economics.

哲学 teaches some of the most essential skills that are needed to be successful in your education and workplace. 以下是一些你可以学习的关键技能：

• 清晰有效的口语和写作
• 论证
• 批判性思维
• 高阶思维
• 解决问题和做决定
• 道德决策

哲学还允许我们：

• 谈谈大问题
• 解决棘手的社会和道德问题
• 成为更好的人
• 找出如何过好我们的生活

“只有一种东西是好的：知识； 还有一种罪恶：无知”——苏格拉底

“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or an天博” – René Descartes

有一种说法是，拥有哲学学位就找不到工作。 这根本不是真的。

哲学是要思考的不仅仅是一个职业。 Unlike focused degrees or certificates, there is no one to one relationships between a philosophy degree and a particular job. Instead, philosophy 天博s get a valuable tool kit of skills that they can take anywhere, giving them a freedom and flexibility not found in 天博 天博s. As a result, 哲学 天博s find themselves in management or highly educated professions across fields.

当我们把哲学专业作为一个整体来看时，一个令人惊讶的趋势出现了。

“But there’s one humanities 天博 whose graduates are doing quite well in the job market—and it’s philosophy 天博s.”

哲学 天博s throughout their lifetime have a higher median salary than any 天博 humanities degree. And it is not just by a little bit (看看《大西洋月刊》上的那篇文章吧)

“We hear again and again that employers value creative problem solving and the ability to deal with ambiguity in their new hires, and I can't think of an天博 天博 that would better prepare you with those skills than the study of philosophy.”

In a study of 1.2 million by payscale.com, philosophy 天博s have the highest median salary for any non- math intensive degree and 16th highest overall. (kaggle)

So, while we can’t say what you will do with a philosophy degree, we do know that philosophy 天博s are doing better than most with their degrees. Here are just some of the interesting jobs philosophy 天博s find themselves doing: