<p>I'm interested in majoring in philosophy, and after college I'd like to pursue a career in business or law. I want to offset the aloof connotations of a philosophy major with something more grounded. What minor would be best for my (general) career choices?</p>
<p>Why not just minor in business. Or economics. Or Political Science. Or…</p>
<p>You’ll be fine in minoring in philosophy. Just make sure you do well in those classes. What are you planning to major in? It seems Accounting, Finance, and Econ make a great partner to a Philosophy minor.</p>
<p>Double major economics & philosophy. Great and useful combo.</p>
<p>You’re probably going to have a hard time offsetting the aloof connotations of a philosophy major because if you do a search on google (or maybe even on here) for the easiest and/or most useless college majors you will see philosophy come up a lot. I know that doesn’t exactly sound like encouragement, but that’s reality of how philosophy is viewed.</p>
<p>It’s good though that you’re going to at least get a minor or even a double major to get with it because that will certainly separate from those who simply have a philosophy degree. I agree that economics would go well with philosophy. If not that then at least something else that would be business or law oriented as others have said. A career in business or law would be difficult to pursue if you have two unrelated degrees.</p>
<p>^ Um, philosophy is one of the best majors if you want to attend law school and business school. Who cares how it’s viewed to the GENERAL PUBLIC. The fact that you take those lists seriously, and your last paragraph . . . well, makes question me your judgment.</p>
<p>Philosophy, if taught well, is extremely difficult. If you aren’t pursuing graduate school, it can be considered “useless”, just like English or anthropology, etc. But for grads, it really opens up new doors. When one applies such studies to medicine, for instance, it opens up new doors, new ways of thinking which means new solutions. Of course, you can always go the law route.
History is considered a good pre-law course of study, but if you want to pursue business, mathematics would be a good option.</p>
<p>philosophy is an amazing major.
dont listen to the bozos
minor is pshyc or econ</p>
<p>Yeah, go philosophy! It is by far my major of choice!</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement everyone, I’ve loved philosophy (in one form or another) since I first began to read and majoring in the academic love of my life has been something I always took for granted. But with all the talk of philosophy majors being useless, I began to question myself…</p>
<p>Of course I’m not reassured simply because of your posts,; I’ve been reading/researching the past few days and it seems philosophy does have many practical applications, it’s just the layperson’s perception which gives it a bad name.</p>
<p>I’d even go so far as to call philosophy the king of the humanities (don’t take my opinion too seriously–I don’t study them, so I might be wrong . . .). It’s probably the most analytic of any of them. That’s why law schools appreciate it so much.</p>
<p>Double majoring in philosophy and something will be good… it shouldn’t be too hard to pull off. Some ideas:
- Economics
- Math
- Computer Science
- Business
- Biology/Chemistry/Physics
- Teaching</p>
<p>Hmm… I like the sound of a Philosophy/Biology or Philosophy/Economics double major. Generally which major, Bio or Econ, is less work intensive? I wouldn’t want to slaughter myself…</p>
<p>Bio is bio. Economics is theory and math.</p>
<p>i’m having the same problem as the OP. i definitely want to go to law school afterwards, but i feel sort of lazy just majoring in philosophy instead of double majoring or minoring. </p>
<p>i was leaning towards economics, but i don’t love math…will this pose a problem?</p>
<p>^ Undergraduate economics programs aren’t very heavy on the mathematics at most universities. Frat. bros need bachelors degrees too, you know . . .</p>
<p>Double major in mathematics and philosophy, man. You’ll be the smartest guy in your year :D</p>
<p>^^^ yeah, i know it isn’t what the OP is going for, but doing math/phil would make you the ultimate academic</p>
<p>I’ll be taking Calc AB senior year so a math major might not be the best for me. I could always get a tutor and teach myself the advanced math not covered in AB XD</p>
<p>you don’t even need to come in knowing any calculus to do well in the math dept. they’ll teach you what you need to know.</p>