Undergraduate Overview
Philosophy lets you ask the big questions, while giving you a range of analytical skills that are valuable on the job market.
Experience Thought-Provoking Courses
From Ancient Philosophy to Contemporary Moral Problems, UB’s Department of Philosophy offers a wide range of courses that will keep your schedule interesting. Try one out—you just might get hooked!
Focus on Your Interests
Our undergraduate programs have been designed to be incredibly flexible, allowing you to tailor your studies to your own interests and goals. Most of our courses fulfill pathways requirements, making a minor, or even a second major, a popular choice with our students.
Prepare for Your Future
A degree in philosophy is great preparation for graduate school, law school, and even business school. More generally, our programs will help expand your abilities to think critically, reason persuasively, write clearly, and work productively with others. These are all vital for your success in our highly competitive and rapidly changing society.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Epistemology
- Ethics & Applied Ethics (including Bioethics)
- Experimental Philosophy
- Formal & Applied Ontology
- History of Philosophy (including Ancient, Modern, Nineteenth-Century & Twentieth-Century Philosophy)
- Logic
- Metaphysics
- Moral Psychology
- Ontology
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy in Popular Culture
- Philosophy of Science
- Social & Political Philosophy
The department includes 20 full-time faculty. Their research interests cover a wide range of topics, allowing the department to offer undergraduate courses in many different areas within philosophy. Of particular note, the Department of Philosophy is a research hub for Applied Ontology and PPE (Philosophy, Politics & Economics). The faculty here are glad to mentor undergraduate research, supervise internships, or even have you assist them with a course!
Prof. Sarah Vincent presents a lecture on everyday aesthetics to her class
Donna Smith
Undergraduate Administrator; Graduate Administrator
Department of Philosophy
135A Park Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-4150
Phone: (716) 645-2780; Fax: (716) 645-6139
Email: donnaobe@buffalo.edu
General Inquiry
Department of Philosophy
135 Park Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260-4150
Voice: (716) 645-2444
Fax: (716) 645-6139
Email: phi-philosophy@buffalo.edu