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