Career Potential
If the ability
to analyze complex issues, to read, think, and communicate articulately
are important to your chosen profession, then philosophy can help you achieve
your professional goals. Many business and government leaders have degrees
or strong backgrounds in philosophy.
Philosophy is
not just for teachers! Philosophy is a traditional route to the study of
law, and more philosophy majors enter the legal profession than any other
career. In addition, people trained in philosophy are consultants and counselors
in matters of medical, legal, business, and journalistic ethics.
If graduate study
and teaching are your desire, you will be interested to know that the university
has placed philosophy majors in first-rate graduate schools, and that one
of these former students now has a position at Stanford University in California.
Philosophers study
the impact of technology on our lives. People specializing in logic helped
pioneer the logical design of the digital computer--the backbone of modern,
technological society. Philosophy can be very practical indeed.
The following website of the American Philosophical
Association has information for philosophy majors who wish to pursue
a non-academic career.
The site has information, resources and background on options for philosophers.
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/texts/nona2.html
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