Philosophy Department

UD philosophy students read the great philosophers themselves, not textbook summaries. The core courses and the historical courses, in particular, focus on the study of some of the most influential texts of the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Augustine's Confessions, and Thomas Aquinas's On Being and Essence to Descartes' Meditations, Kant's Prolegomena, and Heidegger's Being and Time.