The Department offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees. In addition, two undergraduate minors are available - the minor in Philosophy and in Bioethics.

Our current strengths are in Metaphysics and Epistemology (broadly construed, so as to include Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Mind), Philosophy of Science, and the History of Philosophy (especially the History of Modern Philosophy). Ethics and Political Philosophy are also well represented, and we will be making an additional senior appointment in the near future by filling the Duane L. Peterson Chair in Ethics. See the list of faculty for more information on the areas covered in the Department.

The Philosophy Department retains a distinctive character, providing its students with a broad but analytically rigorous philosophical education. Continuing a long Hopkins tradition (the tradition of Dewey, Lovejoy, Boas, Mandelbaum and Schneewind), we offer programs that combine the systematic study of philosophical problems with sensitivity to their history. Quite unusually, our Department, while predominantly "analytic", also offers substantial opportunities for the study of Continental figures.