Cathlene Centeno

The APhil master is a challenging and rewarding program. Fundamentally, it delivers on its promise to provide students with rigorous and consistent training in writing in the analytic style. The program offers a diverse breadth of courses through which students can sample the different subfields of philosophy, with room to take risks and make mistakes, until they find the one they click with the best. 

But what really stands out about the APhil is the way it teaches students how to be philosophers outside of the classroom. And not only in the sense of encouraging continuous reflection in one's personal life, but also in the sense that it teaches what it is to be socially and professionally embedded in an academic community. This is facilitated by organizations like LOGOS and BIAP, which regularly organize reading groups, talks, conferences, workshops, colloquia— all of which students are encouraged to attend and participate in. Such events are also organized via the interuniversity network that brings together philosophers from the University of Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Universitat de Girona. 

On that note, I am personally especially grateful to have entered this program with the people that I did, and to have had peers that continuously raised the standard for what it meant to do good philosophical work.