Instructional Assistant, Philosophy

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Department AHD Staff: Philosophy About the Department: Philosophy is equally concerned with both the true and the good, with what thought is and what it is to think well, as well as with what human life is and how one goes about living well. This means that philosophy has both a theoretical aspect and a practical one. Its theoretical dimension comes most to the fore in the contemporary philosophical landscape in the areas of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science; its practical aspect in areas such as ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. A third set of questions that elude the practical/theoretical divide concern aesthetic or religious topics. At the University of Chicago, the courses offered by the Department of Philosophy explore this wide variety of questions by drawing on the methodologies of both the analytic and the continental traditions, and by critically examining the ideas developed in the texts that constitute the history of Western philosophy. The goal of the Undergraduate Program in Philosophy is to equip our students with the skills and knowledge needed to inquire into these fundamental philosophical questions in a...