The Department of Philosophy, with its wide assortment of courses and variety of scholarly activities, provides a thorough and rigorous graduate training in philosophy. Each year the department hosts the Werkmeister Conference, the Conference of the Society for Women's Advancement in Philosophy, the Florida State University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, and a Colloquium Series. In addition, the department features the Bayles Ethics Lectures and various Departmental Workshops. It also publishes Social Theory and Practice, a leading journal in social and political philosophy founded by the department in 1970.
