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"In unphilosophical minds any rare or
unexpected thing excites wonder
while in philosophical minds the
familiar excites wonder also."
— George Santayana
"To know one religion is to know
none."
— Max Müller
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"It is the mark of an educated
mind to be able to entertain a
thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle
DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARDS
* Dr. Anna Bigelow, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, has been awarded a Carnegie Fellowship for 2008-2010 to study peaceful coexistence between different religious communities at shared sacred sites in secular countries with large Muslim populations, including Palestine, Turkey, and India. For more information, click here.
* Dr. Tony Stewart, Professor of South Asian Religions, has been granted a Fulbright-Hays Award for Faculty Research Abroad. He will use this award over the 2009 calendar year to conduct research in Bangladesh on "Romance of the Pirs: Popular Visions of Muslim Community in Early Modern Bengal."
NEW PRIZE
We are pleased to announce the establishment of the GlaxoSmithKline Semantic Technologies Group Award, with a value of $500. This will be awarded annually at the end of the fall semester to the senior with the best record in the BS in Philosophy with a Concentration in Logic, Representation and Reasoning (see also: New BS in Philosophy). Further conditions apply.
THE USE OF PHILOSOPHY
Articles about the real-world benefits of the study of Philosophy have recently appeared in two of the world's leading newspapers, the New York Times and the U.K. Guardian. See "The Life Examined" and "I Think, Therefore I Earn."
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The Department’s Mission
The NC State Department of Philosophy and Religion is committed to:
- offering a high-quality undergraduate Philosophy curriculum, including a major and minor in Philosophy, that gives students an opportunity to confront through historical and contemporary resources a wide range of central philosophical issues, such as the relationship between the mind and brain, the ethical implications of scientific advances, the justification of moral, political, and legal institutions, the relationship between human knowledge and reality, and the nature of the logic that structures human language and thought;
- offering a high-quality undergraduate Religious Studies curriculum, including a major and a minor in Religious Studies, that provides students an extended opportunity to examine the multiple interpretations of the category “religion” – including religion as a social construction, as an element of psychological development, as a branch of metaphysics, and as a constellation of ritual practices – and the ways in which religious traditions have played a central role in human culture and history;
- developing the analytical abilities and expressive powers of our students;
- providing and expanding educational and research opportunities at the graduate level; and
- conducting research, teaching and scholarship that further knowledge and understanding in the disciplines of Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Site updated May 2, 2008.
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