Graduate Program

The University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, and Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, offer a general Master of Arts degree in Philosophy. Students also have the option of concentrating in Environmental Philosophy or in Ethics. Students work with faculty members from both departments and thus are able to take advantage of a strong overall program with a wide variety of faculty research specializations. The two universities are just eight miles apart, and free public transportation between them is available.

The program offers coursework in major traditional areas such as ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy, as well as in more newly-developed areas such as environmental philosophy, feminist philosophy, and applied ethics.

COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA:

Students pursuing the Environmental Philosophy concentration have the opportunity to benefit from the proximity of the similar M.A. emphasis in Environmental Ethics at the University of Montana in Missoula. The two programs will be working out collaborations on a summer institute in environmental ethics and on an annual graduate student mini-conference in environmental philosophy, alternating between the two locations. Within a short time we hope to offer semester-long student exchanges, enabling graduate students in either program to take classes from the specialists in environmental philosophy at the other institution. We also hope to share resources for bringing eminent speakers to the region. We are seeking out other ways for students to benefit from the different physical geographies and departmental strengths at each institution. For more details of the Montana Program see http://www.umt.edu/phil/masters.htm.