Επίτιμοι διδάκτορες του Τμήματος έχουν αναγορευθεί οι κατωτέρω διακεκριμένοι επιστήμονες:
- Heinrich Pfeiffer, 22/5/1995, former General Secretary Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
- Thomas S. Kuhn, 12/10/1995, Emeritus Professor, M.I.T.
- Paul Ricoeur, 1/11/1995, Emeritus Professor Paris X-Nanterre University and University of Chicago.
- Richard C. Lewontin, 9/5/1996, Professor, Harvard University.
- Isaiah Berlin, Sir, 18/4/1997, Emeritus Professor, Oxford University.
- Hans Albert, 27/5/1997, Emeritus Professor, Mannheim University.
- Hilary Putnam, 14/3/1998, Professor, Harvard University.
- Jean Laplanche, 14/1/1999, Emeritus Professor, Paris VII University.
- Gary Becker, 11/9/2002, Professor, University of Chicago, Nobel prize 1992 in Economics.
- Richard Posner, 18/9/2002, Professor, University of Chicago and Chief Justice of the 7th Regional Court of Appeal, USA.
- Reinhold Zippelius, 18/10/2002, Emeritus Professor, University of Erlangen.
- Geoffrey Lloyd, Sir, 20/12/2003, Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge.
- Michael Frede, 27/1/2005, Professor, Oxford University.
- Martha Nussbaum, 13/12/2005, Professor, University of Chicago.
- Quentin Skinner, 8/5/2007, Regius Professor, University of Cambridge.
- John Roemer, 20/5/2008, Professor, Yale University.
- Michael Friedman, 16/12/2009, Professor, Stanford University.
- Philip Pettit, 2/9/2014, Professor, Princeton University
- Nancy Nersessian, 6/6/2019, Emeritus Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology.