Philosophical Dialogue in a Deglobalizing World
Philosophy major at SAS provides students with the fundamentals of human thinking: by learning how thinking as such functions, Philosophy virtually opens endless opportunities to self-realization across disciplines.
Studying philosophy at SAS is going to expose students to a plethora of philosophical approaches, as the program offers both a traditional and an experimental approach to the discipline, bringing to students’ attention philosophical dialogue from cross-cultural and trans-historical perspectives. This is abetted by the fact that philosophy at SAS is taught by a team of interdisciplinary-minded philosophers coming from different countries and working at divergent intersections of philosophy, which ensures a diverse and multiparadigmatic learning environment.
As a student in philosophy at SAS you will also be able to take courses from other disciplines as well and receive insights about philosophical problems related to those disciplines. Students will study both traditional courses on philosophy (such as epistemology and ontology) and various electives offering present-day and millenia-old questions and solutions at the forefronts of experimental thinking.
As the essence of philosophy is rooted in dialogue, at SAS we strive to teach philosophy as a form of dialogue across disciplines and cultures. It also investigates the foundations and contingency of knowledge, human agency, morality, etc. Students will be trained to analyze and compare a variety of diverse patterns of thinking, forms of knowledge, and worldviews, from mythology and cosmology via history of ideas to quantum physics.
Faculty about Philosophy
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academic and career pathways
SAS graduates majoring in philosophy are prepared to enroll in competitive MA programs in Russian and international universities because we do not offer a single traditional perspective to teaching and learning philosophy.
Overall, they have a range of career paths available to them, given their transferable skills in critical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving. With their ability to think systematically, analytically, and critically, philosophy graduates are well-suited for pursuing a variety of career paths.
For example, SAS graduates can specialize in business, where they can work in a variety of roles, including management, consulting, and entrepreneurship; in academia as professors or researchers; in journalism and media as writers, editors, and producers; in government and public service taking such roles as policy analysis, research, and advocacy; and non-profit organizations as program managers, development officers, and directors.