The department is located in the Raised Faculty Building on the Sidgwick Site and is part of the Cambridge School of Arts and Humanities.
[5] In 1861 following recommendations made by John Grote and Joseph Mayor, the Senate upgraded the status of Moral Sciences to become a three-year Undergraduate honours course in its own right.
This was passed by the Council of the Senate, leaving four subjects: moral philosophy, logic, economics and psychology.
[7] Due to the efforts of Alfred Marshall, Economics was also dropped from the Moral Sciences Tripos, becoming a separate subject in 1903.
[9] The list includes both [1] and also research-active philosophers who play a significant role in the faculty's intellectual life.