Prospective Graduate Students

The Philosophy Department at Simon Fraser University offers graduate degrees at both the Masters and the PhD level. We are especially proud of our two innovative MA programs, quite possibly unique in North America. Most of the students we accept are in MA programs. We have worked very hard on structuring our small PhD program to make sure our graduates emerge with both a solid philosophical education and the best possible dissertation in hand. We accept a few exceptional PhD students.

Please see The Graduate Handbook for full details of our programs.

The department is particularly strong in Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, and we have expertise in some areas of Epistemology and Metaphysics, as well as History of Early Modern, Ancient, and of Analytic Philosophy and Logic. (See individual faculty members' web-pages for details). Several faculty members have strong interests in empirical research in Psychology and Neuroscience, and the Philosophy Department is a participant in SFU’s Cognitive Science program. SFU Graduate students can take advantage of the expertise offered at the University of British Columbia Philosophy Department by taking UBC courses or having UBC faculty as members of their supervisory committees.