The Department of Philosophy at USP currently has 33 active professors conducting research, supervising master's, doctorate and postdoctoral research, and regularly teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses. In addition, 14 retired professors collaborate actively with the program, through graduate orientation, study group coordination and research. Our teaching staff seeks to cover a wide scope of competence in Philosophy, including the areas of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art; Ethics and Political Philosophy; Theory of Human Sciences; History of Philosophy; Logic, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Sciences.