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Why Study Philosophy?

Philosophy is traditionally defined as the love of wisdom, the ability to think well about the foundations of human action, the nature of reality, and the purposes and priorities of life.

The department offers the opportunity for a systematic study of the philosophies of past and present, of East and West, a study that deepens and broadens one's outlook on the world and on human affairs, and thus provides a more secure basis on which to develop one's own philosophy.

Department Contact

Hours: Mon-Thur, 8:30am-5pm
Fri, 8:30am-1:30pm

E-mail: phlsphr@sfsu.edu

Phone:(415) 338-1596

Address:1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132, Humanities Building, Room 388

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Graduate Program - Graduate Students

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

SAJA PARVIZIAN for being awarded one of the 2009-2010 Graduate Equity Fellowships!

PAUL WILLIAMS for receiving the Edward B. Kaufmann Scholarship!

 

CONGRATUALATIONS ON PASSING THE M.A. COMPREHENSIVE EXAM

2008-2009

Bret Buchanan

Roniel Chand

Samuel Chartier

BW Diederich

Troy Dujardin

Anthony Ferrucci

Cecily Driscoll

Natalie Letcher

Michael Morales

James Moreno

Michael Olsen

Saja Parvizian

Andy Peterson

Manny Raya

Michael Roberts

Curt Schmelzel

Luke Slifich

Nathan Skrzpczak

Genevieve Wallace

Paul Williams

SFSU Students Publish Papers and Present at Conferences

Paul Erekuff, Cecily Driscoll, Todd Gullion, Chris Pariso, and Andy Peterson all served as commentators in Colloquia sessions on the Main Program of the American Philosophical Association meeting, Vancouver, April 2009.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE WHO SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED THEIR MA THESES

Tim Bos, “Investigative OLP and the Assertion Fallacy”

BW Diederich, “Taking Nozick Seriously”

Paul Erekuff, “Epistemic Conceptions of Analyticity”

Ian Fitch, “Philosophic Zombies and the Conceivability Argument”

Patti Ford, “According to Mengzi (Mencius)”

Gloria Hammad, “Descartes’ Real and Modal Distinctions Do Not Apply To God”

Jamie Lindsay, “Reason as Remedy in Spinoza’s Ethics”

Claudia Lodia, “Akrasia, Character Change, and Reframing the World”

Matt O'Hanlon, “"Two Senses of Well-Being and their relation within Mayahana Buddhism (or the Mahayana Buddhist world-view)"

Christopher Pariso, “Perception, Experience and the Space of Reasons”

Shahriar Shahabi, “Philosophical Activity and the Question of Continuity in Wittgenstein”

Melissa Smart, “The Attainment of the Good Life: Two Approaches to Perfection”

Genevieve Wallace, “Intergenerational Justice: A Defense of the Revised Sustainability Standard”