Careers for Philosophy Majors
The career fields for people with philosophy degrees include business, computers, education, journalism, government, law, medicine, publishing, real estate, religion, and much more.
Skills gained by philosophy majors include thinking logically, analyzing and solving problems, assessing the pros and cons of proposals, writing and speaking clearly, attending to details, and asking the right questions.
These skills enable a person to take on new responsibilities and to adapt to new careers more readily than those whose training has been tightly focused on narrowly defined career goals. To get the best of both worlds, some philosophy majors also minor or double-major in other fields connected to the careers they intend to pursue.
Check out what these well-known philosophy majors did:
- Steve Martin, comedian and actor
- Ethan Coen, filmmaker
- John Elway, NFL quarterback
- Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- Phil Jackson, NBA coach
- Gerald Levin, CEO of Time-Warner
- Dennis Miller, comedian
- Stone Phillips, "Dateline" anchor
- Pope John Paul II
- Susan Sarandon, actress
- George Soros, financier
- David Souter, Supreme Court justice
- Alex Trebek, television host
- Amy Madigan, actress
- Michael McKaskey, owner, Chicago Bears
- Steve Thomas, host for TV show, "This Old House"
- Umberto Eco, author and semiologist
- Herbert Simon, economist and Nobel Laureate
- Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Philip Glass, composer
- James Michener, author
- Iris Murdoch, author
- Alexander Solzhenitsin, author
- Wallace Shawn, playwright and actor
- Susan Sontag, author
- Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York
- Michael Spense, Nobel Laureate in Economics
- Stephen Bryer, Supreme Court justice
- Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize winner
In the News
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