Philosophy Department
Philosophy
The only stand alone department of Philosophy at an HBCU.
Contact Us
Department Chair:
Dr. Anika Simpson
Phone: (202)806-6811
Email: anika.simpson@howard.edu
Locke Hall Room 262
2441 6th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20059
Welcome
As the only stand alone department of philosophy at an HBCU, our department offers a pluralistic approach to philosophy unique in its ability to provide students with a comprehensive program of study in Africana Philosophy, as well as traditional areas of philosophy.
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Alain Leroy Locke
Philosopher, Founder & Former Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University
All philosophies, it seems to me, are in ultimate derivation philosophies of life and not of abstract, disembodied “objective” reality; products of time, place and situation, and thus systems of timed history rather than timeless eternity. They need not even be so universal as to become the epitomized rationale of an age, but may merely be the lineaments of a personality, its temperament and dispositional attitudes projected into their systematic rationalizations. But no conception of philosophy, however relativistic, however opposed to absolutism, can afford to ignore the question of ultimate or abandon what has been so aptly though skeptically termed the quest for certainty.