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Typical Ph.D. Timeline
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First year:
Students are expected to cover half of the proficiency requirements (courses) for passing candidacy.
Proficiency requirements include core seminars (in philosophy of language; philosophy of mind,
epistemology, & metaphysics; value theory; philosophy of science), history courses, logic courses, and a
breadth requirement.
Second year:
Students are expected to complete the proficiency requirements and pass candidacy in the spring quarter.
Third year:
Students are now Ph.D. candidates. They are expected to take 3 seminars/courses during the year. The
dissertation proposal is to be approved by spring quarter of the third year.
Fourth year:
The student is expected to pass the departmental oral in the first half of this year, preferably in fall quarter.
Most of the year is spent in working on the dissertation.
Most students require at least a fifth year of work in order to complete the dissertation, although some do
finish in four years. The University oral must be passed before the student can submit the dissertation and
receive the Ph.D.
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M.A. Requirements
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The MA student must complete a minimum of 45 units in philosophy. Students must realize that although these 45
units are the minimum, quite often more units are necessary in order to complete departmental requirements.
Students are expected to have a broad undergraduate knowledge in philosophy (those lacking somepart of this
will be required to make up this lack during their MA studies). Graduate work must be done in at least three of
the following areas: logic and semantics; philosphy of science and history of science; ethics, value theory, and
moral and political philosophy; metaphysics, epistemology, and philosphy of language; history of philosophy. The
student must take at least three graduate level courses in one of the five areas.
The time frame is most typically two years.
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At Stanford, the typical Ph.D. requires five years of study. This is significantly less than
at many institutions. The M.A. typically requires two years.