Department of Philosophy
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Welcome
Philosophy at SOAS is a friendly, accessible, and intellectually vibrant community committed to doing philosophy globally.
Our internationally recognised experts work across Western, Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and African traditions, and our degrees reflect SOAS’s distinctive mission to expand philosophy beyond a narrow Western canon.
Here, you will explore diverse philosophical worlds, question inherited boundaries, and join a department dedicated to dialogue across cultures, languages, and intellectual traditions. We look forward to thinking with you.
Meet the academics
Explore our unique concentration of experts in global philosophies.
Philosophy at SOAS offers a unique, research-led and globally-engaged education, challenging Eurocentric assumptions and cultivating rigorous, critically decolonial, plural, and socially engaged approaches to philosophical inquiry and practice.
