Partnerships and Affiliations

The Department and its faculty maintain partnerships and collaborate with several other units at GW and with other institutions:

• Peter Caws and Gail Weiss are both former Directors of the Ph.D. Program in Human Sciences and remain affiliated with it.
• The MA Program is affiliated with the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration (TSPPPA). The Director of the Program, William Griffith, holds an appointment in TSPPPA and the Associate Director, Jeffrey Brand-Ballard, is an affiliated member of the TSPPPA faculty.
• Geert Van Cleemput is jointly appointed with the University Honors Program and teaches Honors courses.
• The Department, along with several other area departments, co-sponsors the Joint Seminar on Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health.
• Tad Zawidzki is a founding co-director of the Mind-Brain-Evolution Cluster at the University.
• Members of the Department collaborate with faculty in other departments such as mathematics, economics, psychology, and anthropology.
• Many other programs across the University require or recommend that their students take courses offered in the Department.
• In the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), philosophy courses count toward the Humanities requirement, while logic courses count toward the Quantitative and Logical Reasoning requirement.
• Specific concentrations in CCAS that require or recommend philosophy courses include the majors in Classics, Liberal Arts, Linguistics, Psychology, Human Services, and Women's Studies, and the minors in Film Studies and Peace Studies.
• In the Elliot School of International Affairs, philosophy courses count toward the Humanities/Creative Arts and Societies/Cultural portions of the General Curricular Requirements.
• In the School of Business, philosophy courses satisfy elective requirements in Moral Reasoning, Humanities, and Cultural and Political Diversity, and serve as electives for concentrations in Information Systems Technology, Marketing, and Sport, Event, and Hospitality Management.