Memphis is a pluralist department, drawing together continental, analytic, and Africana traditions, with a shared grounding in the history of philosophy. Our faculty includes prominent scholars with expertise in continental European philosophy (especially German Idealism, phenomenology, and 20th century French figures), alongside (and often in collaboration with) experts in Black Feminist thought, philosophy of race, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and the history of philosophy. Students in our Ph.D. program produce dissertations that exhibit this pluralism, and benefit from a very strong placement rate.