Beth Grybko receives the 2018 Distinguished Graduate Staff Award
April 09, 2018
Beth Grybko is being honored by the Graduate School Dean Barbara Krauthamer for her outstanding work in support of graduate students and graduate education at UMass Amherst. She was chosen from...
In Memoriam: Lynne Rudder Baker (1944-2017)
December 28, 2017
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Lynne Rudder Baker, Distinguished Professor Emerita in Philosophy. Lynne received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1972. She began...
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Whatever your career aspirations, the study of philosophy can help in strengthening your preparation, through developing your capacities to think and reason well, to deal critically and analytically with the ideas, the concepts, the problems, and the methodologies central to your chosen profession. Yet the study of philosophy equips you not just with skills for a trade or profession; it equips you with an important skill for living.
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