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Why More Business Students Should Get Philosophy Degrees Instead
Philosophy is as applicable to business as economics, marketing, or computer science.
Unfortunately, most people look at business through the lens of only one discipline — whether it be finance, bookkeeping, marketing, technology, etc. However, among all fields of study, philosophy alone represents a truly interdisciplinary outlook that allows one to study anything freely and stretch the boundaries of learning.
Philosophy is more than a field of study — it is a scaffolding of principles and ways of thinking that can be applied anywhere. I believe that my background studying philosophy has given me a massive advantage in business and life.
As the legendary investor Charlie Munger once said, “You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines and use them routinely — all of them, not just a few.”
How Philosophy Relates to Business
For those who doubt how some of the more esoteric fields of study in philosophy could ever translate into useful skills for professional life, here is a brief list of means by which philosophical study has related to my work and life:
- Analytical Philosophy (aka Formal Logic) provides a robust set of tools for analyzing ideas and arguments. This is the fundamental language of the law…
