<p>What can you do with a philosophy major? If one has a strong interest in philosophy (only through reading books), should one declare it as a major? What should one do to indicate his/her interest even if he/she may end up doing a philosophy minor?</p>
<p>You can do the same things with a philosophy undergraduate major that you can do with any other nontechnical major (English, religion, history anthropology, etc.) None of the jobs you can get directly involve philosophy, but they draw on the transferable skills of writing, logical analysis, persuasion etc. that you will develop in the course of your undergraduate education. My students have gotten jobs in teaching, sales, nonprofit and for-profit administration, banking, human resources, speechwriting, and in corporate training programs of various kinds.</p>
<p>If you want to continue your education, you can go to law school. You can take premed requirements alongside your philosophy major and apply to medical school; medical schools really like humanities majors who also have strong MCATS. You can take some accounting courses as electives and get jobs in the financial sector (if they are still hiring these days). One of my friends, a double major in math and philosophy with a very strong background in formal logic, got a PhD in computer science/artificial intelligence from Berkeley (this isn’t a normal career track, however; the guy was very brilliant).</p>
<p>I don’t particularly recommend getting a PhD in philosophy; the academic job market in the humanities has long been horrible and seems likely to get even worse in the future.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks Jingle, I happened to be wondering the same thing as I’m really thinking about either double majoring or minoring in philosophy next year.</p>
<p>Also, if I’m going to major in English (with a Creative Writing and Journalism emphasis), is it a bad idea to go into two nontechnical fields? I’m super interested in philosophy and I feel it would make me think more and help build arguments.</p>
<p>I want to write for a living, and whether it’s articles, novels, poems, essays, speeches, plays, columns, whatever.</p>