1983 The academic team led by Professor Zhang obtained a master's degree in Marxist philosophy and became one of the earliest units in Shanxi Province to award a master's degree. 1998, the academic team led by Professor Guo Guichun obtained the doctor's degree in philosophy of science and technology, which is a breakthrough in the doctor's degree in humanities and social sciences in our province. In 2000, the Research Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, headed by Professor Guo Guichun, was awarded the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. In 2002, the discipline of philosophy of science and technology was rated as a national key discipline, and in 2003, a postdoctoral research station of philosophy was established; In 2005, it was authorized as a doctor of philosophy and a master's degree, and it is the only doctoral program in humanities and social sciences in Shanxi Province so far. It has greatly affected the overall teaching and scientific research strength of humanities in Shanxi University, radiated the construction of philosophy and social sciences in the whole province, and served the local economic and social development in Shanxi. Since 2005, philosophy as a whole ranks among the top ten similar disciplines in China. In 2009, postgraduate training ranked eighth in China and eighth in first-class disciplines.
Since 2007, in order to strengthen and highlight the construction of the key first-class discipline of philosophy, the college has put forward the goal of building a "research-oriented college", and integrated and established four research rooms-foreign philosophy and logic, Marxist philosophy and ethics, China philosophy and religion, sociology and social philosophy; At the same time, in order to improve the innovation ability of scientific research and create academic masterpieces, the Center for Cognitive and Analytical Philosophy and the Center for Social Investigation and Evaluation have been established, which have become the backbone of scientific research in the college. In the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" and for a long time to come, the College will conform to the development strategy of Shanxi University to comprehensively enhance its comprehensive strength, take educational research as the guide, aim at building a research-oriented college, carry out discipline construction with a high starting point and high standards, promote the international development of teaching staff, teaching and scientific research, and turn the College into a first-class philosophical research base and teaching and education center in the whole province and even the whole country.