Chair's Welcome

Welcome to the Web site for the Philosophy Department at Hofstra! The Department aims at helping all of our students to reflect about fundamental issues (goodness, truth, beauty, justice, knowledge, reality) in varied and stimulating ways, and to develop skills in reading, writing, speaking, and reasoning. Our majors and minors go on to careers in many different areas, including law, business, social work, elementary and secondary education, medicine, and college teaching. Philosophy educates students in habits of mind that are useful in all of these fields, and is an especially satisfying subject to study for people who are not satisfied with easy answers.

Our growing community of majors, minors, and other interested students runs a Philosophy Club that meets weekly. The Department has a chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, an international honor society. Students are welcome at departmental colloquia, where departmental faculty and visiting scholars discuss their research.

For more information, please call the Department office at (516) 463-5612, e-mail me at ira.singer@hofstra.edu, or drop by the Department's home in Heger Hall.

Dr. Ira J. Singer
Chairperson, Department of Philosophy