At the University of Ottawa, every year, the department of philosophy offers to its community a series of lectures given by local and guests scholars. Additionally, you can take part in one of our renown reading groups on topics such as Buddhist Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy or Early Modern Philosophy

Explore even more program options and expand your expertise:

• Honours B.A. in Ethics and Political philosophy
• Honours B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science

The University of Ottawa is one of Canada’s top 10 research universities, with research spending totalling close to $350 million annually.

We rank seventh among Canadian universities in graduate employability.

You can choose to study in English, French or both at the world’s largest bilingual English-French university.

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• Developing systematic and analytical thinking skills.
• Learning to organize your ideas logically and to express them convincingly.
• Organizing information, summarizing and assessing complex data and applying these skills practically.
• Communicating clearly in both official languages, both in speech and in writing.
• Understanding individual’s and communities’ realities from historical, social, political, and psychological points of view.
• Adopting collaborative, flexible, work practices that ease your integration into the workforce, through group projects.
• Studying theoretical problems, developing your creativity, and applying it to your work, your art, your life.

• Humanity, robotics, artificial intelligence
• Gender, sexuality, identity
• Environment, health, business
• Knowledge, consciousness, science
• Culture, religion, racism
• History, time, eternity
• Truth, language, logic
• Life, existence, freedom
• Art, aesthetics, values
• Law, justice, politics

• Excellent representation of both Western and Asian philosophical traditions
• Strong presence of various philosophical approaches: historical, continental, analytic
• Offering of all courses in both French and English
• B.A. in Ethics and Political Philosophy
• Joint Honours in Philosophy and Political Science
• A variety of M.A. programs, including a short duration M.A., and a collaborative M.A. with Medieval and Renaissance Studies or with Feminist and Gender Studies
• Close to the Parliament of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada