CONSIDERING A GRADUATE DEGREE IN LOGIC & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE? Consider UCI!

The UCI Department of Logic & Philosophy of Science is ranked the #1 program in the world in general philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and decision, rational choice, and game theory; and in the top 10 for all other areas of departmental specialty (Philosophical Gourmet Report).

Graduate students in the doctoral program receive six years of guaranteed funding, and scholars in the department have a record of earning competitive research funding and fellowships from agencies including the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Sciences Foundation, and from campus-level fellowships, such as the Provost Ph.D., Graduate LEAD, Graduate Dean’s Dissertation, Eugene Cota-Robles, and Newkirk Graduate Student fellowships.
 

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The department fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment with the culture of a research institute. Graduate students are active researchers and respected colleagues who regularly publish articles in leading scholarly journals, such as Philosophy of Science and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, often in collaboration with one another and with LPS faculty.

 

 

Using methods from philosophy, logic, and the sciences themselves, scholars in UCI’s LPS department investigate what we are able to know about the world through science, and precisely how it is that science enables us to know it. LPS faculty annually instruct and mentor a small, select group of graduate students who go on to teaching and research careers at top educational institutions around the world. LPS also has strong connections with many science departments, including physics, biology, mathematics, economics, computer science, cognitive science, lan¬guage sciences, and mathematical behavioral sciences.

Graduate students from UCI’s LPS program have gone on to professorial and professional posts at esteemed universities and organizations across the globe.

UCI’s campus is beautiful, rotating around Aldrich Park, a 19-acre botanical garden. The campus is located less than 10 miles from Newport Beach, is the #1 university doing the most for the American dream (New York Times College Access Index), and the #7 ranked public university in the U.S. (U.S. News & World Report).