Note that, for Philosophy programs, the list of courses that fulfills each group is an open list.听听Other PHIL courses may be able to be used to fulfill each group. Topics courses, Major Philosophers, and Seminars (600-level) can often count for different groups, from year to year, depending on course content. Consult a Philosophy advisor if you want to count such courses towards specific groups in your program (they will need to document the course on an audit sheet for you, but note that courses cannot double-count).
Please note that many courses offered by the Department of Philosophy have limited enrolment.
For courses cross-listed with other departments, see the menu item "Cross-listed Courses".
You can access the class schedule for 2024-25 now on Minerva.
Please note:
Due to recent changes to course numbering in the Department of Philosophy, former 500 level courses are now being offered as 600 level courses. These courses will fulfill the 500-level credit requirements. Please note the following policy regarding enrolment of undergraduate students in 600-level courses (Graduate courses).
Policy: An undergraduate student will be permitted to take 600-level courses subject to the following conditions:
- The student has a minimum CGPA of 3.3.
- The student is in U3 or higher.
- The professor of the course and the program adviser or the director of the undergraduate program provide written approval supporting the request.
- A maximum of 6 credits of 600-level courses are allowed toward the degree.
- The actual course number appears on the transcript.
- The course evaluation methods and grading standards are the same for all students, whether graduate or undergraduate.
- The regulations and practices of the Faculty of Arts are also applied to such a course.
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Summer 2024
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 210. Introduction to Deductive Logic 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)Terms offered: Summer 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 237. Contemporary Moral Issues.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)Terms offered: Summer 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introductory discussion of central ethical questions (the value of persons, or the relationship of rights and utilities, for example) through the investigation of currently disputed social and political issues. Specific issues to be discussed may include pornography and censorship, affirmative action, civil disobedience, punishment, abortion, and euthanasia.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 375. Existentialism.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)Terms offered: Summer 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
This course will examine the nature of existentialist thought as represented in various philosophical and literary texts. Particular themes to be examined include freedom, alienation, responsibility and choice, and the nature of self.
PHIL 375 Summer 2023 Course Syllabus
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Fall 2024
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 197. FYS: Right and Wrong.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Reading and discussion of classic and contemporary philosophical texts on morality: its nature, status, and importance.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 202. The Good Life.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explores how philosophers from Socrates to Sartre wrestle with the question of how we should live, including ancient philosophers who present their teachings as pathways to happiness, virtue, and peace of mind; medieval philosophers who seek to understand God鈥檚 will; and modern philosophers who grapple with the
tension between community and freedom. Analyzes debates of fundamental moral and existential questions: What things really matter? Does it pay to be good? What constitutes the best society? Can we escape the roller coaster of our emotions? Examines how answers are intertwined with beliefs about God, nature, knowledge, the soul, and politics.
phil_202_the_good_life_2024_syllabus.pdf
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 210. Introduction to Deductive Logic 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)Terms offered: Summer 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 221. Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science 2.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the development of modern science since the Eighteenth Century.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 230. Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of a number of historically important and influential theories. Philosophers to be discussed may include Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, and Moore.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 242. Introduction to Feminist Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 301. Philosophical Fundamentals.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An intensive study of basic philosophical skills; reading, writing, analysis, and argumentation.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 306. Philosophy of Mind.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of major positions of the mind-body problem, focusing on such questions as: Do we have minds and bodies? Can minds affect bodies? Is mind identical to body? If so, in what sense "identical"? Can physical bodies be conscious.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 311. Philosophy of Mathematics.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course provides an historically informed introduction to philosophy of mathematics. It gives the student an overview of prominent issues and arguments, to enable her to follow and discuss contemporary research in philosophy of mathematics.
phil_311_fall_2024_syllabus_v2.pdf
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 327. Philosophy of Race.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to issues in the philosophy of race, for example: the metaphysical status of race; the biology of racial categories; the social construction of race; the relationship between race and racism; the phenomenology of racialized subjectivity; or, intersections of race, gender, and other identity categories.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 336. Aesthetics.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to issues central to aesthetic theory; the nature of aesthetic judgment, perception of the aesthetic object, the nature of the art object.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 341. Philosophy of Science 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A discussion of philosophical problems as they arise in the context of scientific practice and enquiry. Such issues as the philosophical presuppositions of the physical and social sciences, the nature of scientific method and its epistemological implications will be addressed.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 343. Biomedical Ethics.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An investigation of ethical issues as they arise in the practice of medicine (informed consent, e.g.) or in the application of medical technology (in vitro fertilization, euthanasia, e.g.)
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 348. Philosophy of Law 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A discussion of the nature of justice and law, and of the relationship between them.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 349. Environmental Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to environmental ethics; potentially also such related fields as philosophy of ecology, environmental aesthetics, and/or other philosophical topics demonstrably relevant to environmental issues.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 350. History and Philosophy of Ancient Science.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in ancient pure mathematics (geometry and number theory), "mixed mathematics" (astronomy, music theory, optics, mechanics), and/or natural science (including medicine), studied with a view to philosophical issues raised by the content of ancient science and/or by the logic of scientific argument.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 353. The Presocratic Philosophers.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the surviving fragments of the presocratic philosophers and schools of philosophy, as well as later reports of their views.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 354. Plato.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of some of the philosophical problems (those in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, e.g.) found in a selection of Plato's dialogues.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 355. Aristotle.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of selected works by Aristotle. The course considers issues in moral philosophy as well as those found in the logical treatises, the Physics and Metaphysics, and in the philosophy of mind.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 356. Early Medieval Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of selected works in the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. Topics in moral and political philosophy, logic and metaphysics, philosophical psychology and epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophical theology may be discussed.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 360. 17th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the work of such seventeenth-century philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Gassendi, Malebranche, Leibniz, and the Cambridge Platonists.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 375. Existentialism.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)Terms offered: Summer 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
This course will examine the nature of existentialist thought as represented in various philosophical and literary texts. Particular themes to be examined include freedom, alienation, responsibility and choice, and the nature of self.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 397. Tutorial 01.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 398. Tutorial 02.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 411. Topics in Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A course focusing on some philosophical issue (e.g., the nature of numbers or the relation of truth to provability) as it arises in the study of mathematics and logic.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 415. Philosophy of Language.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of central notions in the philosophy of language (reference, meaning, and truth, e.g.), the puzzles these notions give rise to, and the relevance of these notions to such questions as: What is language? How is communication possible? What is understanding? Is language rule-governed.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 419. Epistemology.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A discussion of central topics in the theory of knowledge. The questions addressed in the course may include: What is knowledge? Do we have any knowledge? What is the relation between knowledge and belief? When is belief justified? Is all knowledge conscious knowledge.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 434. Metaethics.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the status of sentences containing moral terms, judgements about moral claims, and the nature of moral facts.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 442. Topics in Feminist Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced discussion of topical and central themes in feminist theory.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 444. Early Modern Political Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of political and moral theory from the Reformation to the French Revolution including Luther, Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Smith.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 446. Current Issues in Political Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected issues in contemporary political philosophy.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 454. Ancient Moral Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of central themes of ancient moral theory as treated by two or more contrasting philosophers or philosophical traditions - probably including Plato and/or Aristotle, and possibly some Hellenistic or post-Hellenistic schools.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 475. Topics in Contemporary European Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced discussion of selected themes in contemporary European philosophy.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 480. Topics in the History of Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced discussion of some theme and/or problem in the history of philosophy.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 497. Tutorial 04.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 498. Tutorial 05.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Open to third year Joint Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 499D1. Tutorial 06.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 499N2. Tutorial 06.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 607. Pro-Seminar 1.
Credits: 6Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A series of seminars on selected topics designed for professional training to graduate students. Topics will be selected from the general area of Value Theory.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. - Metaphysics and epistemologyPHIL 611. Seminar: Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Seminar on a particular topic in philosophy of logic and mathematics.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. - Metaphysics and epistemologyPHIL 619. Seminar: Epistemology.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a topic in the theory of knowledge.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. - Ethics and value theoryPHIL 634. Seminar: Ethics.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Seminar on a particular topic in ethics. Topic varies by year.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. - Metaphysics and epistemologyPHIL 670. Seminar: Contemporary Analytic Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course on some major analytic philosopher, or some issue of central importance in the analytic tradition.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. - Metaphysics and epistemology OR ethics and value theoryPHIL 675. Seminar: Contemporary European Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course on contemporary European philosophy or some important issue in the Continental tradition.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 680. Seminar: Problems of Philosophy 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Seminar on a particular topic in philosophy. Topic varies by year.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 682. Pro-Seminar 3.
Credits: 6Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A series of seminars on selected topics designed to provide professional training to graduate students. Topics will be selected from the general area of Metaphysics/Epistemology.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 703. Teaching Reflection and Practice.
Credits: 1Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Course design, development, delivery, and evaluation of a course that the student has been assigned to teach. Aspects of course design and in-class student
evaluations will be provided by a Faculty mentor.
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Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 201. Introduction to Philosophy 2.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to some of the major problems of philosophy. This course does not duplicate .
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 221. Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science 2.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the development of modern science since the Eighteenth Century.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 237. Contemporary Moral Issues.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)Terms offered: Summer 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introductory discussion of central ethical questions (the value of persons, or the relationship of rights and utilities, for example) through the investigation of currently disputed social and political issues. Specific issues to be discussed may include pornography and censorship, affirmative action, civil disobedience, punishment, abortion, and euthanasia.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 240. Political Philosophy 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to contemporary philosophy of politics by concentrating on a number of contested concepts, such as freedom, justice and equality, in contemporary political philosophy and practice.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 310. Intermediate Logic.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A second course in Logic. NB. The course will be technical in nature, and some mathematical aptitude is essential. The emphasis is on the expressive properties of standard logical systems, including implications for the philosophy of mathematics. We will study the Completeness of First-Order Logic, then the 'limitative' theorems of Tarski and G枚del.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 334. Ethical Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A course focusing on central questions in ethical theory such as the nature of the good and the right and the factors which determine moral rightness and wrongness.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 344. Medieval and Renaissance Political Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of Medieval and Renaissance political theory.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 345. Greek Political Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the ethical and political theories of ancient Greece, especially those of Plato and Aristotle.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 355. Aristotle.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of selected works by Aristotle. The course considers issues in moral philosophy as well as those found in the logical treatises, the Physics and Metaphysics, and in the philosophy of mind.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 361. 18th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of eighteenth century philosophy, especially British philosophy. Attention is given to fundamental metaphysical, epistemological, and moral issues as reflected in the work of such philosophers as Locke, Shaftesbury, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Butler, Hume and Reid.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 366. 18th and Early 19th Century German Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the works of such philosophers as Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, Schelling, and Hegel.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 367. 19th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the works of such 19th century philosophers as Mach, Helmholtz, Dedekind, Frege, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Mill and Bradley.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 397. Tutorial 01.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 398. Tutorial 02.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 411. Topics in Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A course focusing on some philosophical issue (e.g., the nature of numbers or the relation of truth to provability) as it arises in the study of mathematics and logic.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 415. Philosophy of Language.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of central notions in the philosophy of language (reference, meaning, and truth, e.g.), the puzzles these notions give rise to, and the relevance of these notions to such questions as: What is language? How is communication possible? What is understanding? Is language rule-governed.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 419. Epistemology.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A discussion of central topics in the theory of knowledge. The questions addressed in the course may include: What is knowledge? Do we have any knowledge? What is the relation between knowledge and belief? When is belief justified? Is all knowledge conscious knowledge.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 421. Metaphysics.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of central questions in metaphysics in their historical and contemporary forms. Topics may be chosen from such issues as: personal identity, the nature of space and time, the nature of events and properties, possible worlds, and the problem of realism.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 427. Topics in Critical Philosophy of Race.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced discussion of topics in the critical philosophy of race.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 436. Aesthetics 2.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced discussion of issues in aesthetics.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 441. Philosophy of Science 2.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An analysis of some key philosophical ideas in science and technology, e.g. problem, explanation, forecast, testability and truth.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 444. Early Modern Political Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of political and moral theory from the Reformation to the French Revolution including Luther, Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Smith.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 445. 19th Century Political Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of various strands of political theory since Rousseau, concentrating on such themes as the understanding of modernity and theories of liberal society.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 446. Current Issues in Political Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected issues in contemporary political philosophy.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 450. Major Philosophers 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar will give detailed attention to the work of one philosopher or to a single philosophical theme addressed by several philosophers. Emphasis will be placed on understanding how the metaphysical, epistemological, and moral views of a figure or figures are internally related. Topic will vary from year to year.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 453. Ancient Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of central themes of ancient metaphysics and/or natural philosophy as treated by two or more contrasting philosophers or philosophical traditions - probably including Plato and/or Aristotle, and possibly including some Hellenistic or post-Hellenistic schools.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 454. Ancient Moral Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of central themes of ancient moral theory as treated by two or more contrasting philosophers or philosophical traditions - probably including Plato and/or Aristotle, and possibly some Hellenistic or post-Hellenistic schools.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 470. Topics in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced discussion of major themes in the analytic tradition.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 474. Phenomenology.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of phenomenology from a historical and thematic perspective. The course will typically involve the study of central thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty, with an examination of the nature and development of the phenomenological movement.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 481. Topics in Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in philosophy. Topic varies by year.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Open to third year Joint Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
See for course description.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. - Metaphysics and epistemologyPHIL 621. Seminar: Metaphysics.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a topic in metaphysics.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. - Ethics or value theoryPHIL 627. Seminar: Critical Philosophy of Race.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course examining a question, theme, or thinker in the critical philosophy of race.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. - Metaphysics and epistemologyPHIL 641. Seminar: Philosophy of Science.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a topic in the philosophy of science.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 642. Seminar: Feminist Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a specific topic in feminist theory: e.g., a major figure; or theme, such as sex/gender, embodiment, race, subjectivity, agency, representation, politics, nature/culture, discourse and power; or a feminist approach to the history of philosophy, ethics, social/political philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of science, phenomenology, or metaphysics.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.PHIL 689. Seminar: Special Topics in Philosophy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Psychoanalysis: a critical examination. Depending on the interests of the class, areas covered would include: psychoanalytic epistemology, psychoanalysis and the pre-socratics, psychoanalysis and tragedy, reasons versus causes in psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, psychoanalytic truth, self-deception, irrationality, paradox, creativity, internal object world and its relation to external objects.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.ARTE 700. Seminar: Teaching
Humanities.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to university teaching and learning issues, methods, and traditions that are specific to humanities disciplines, focusing on what successful teaching looks like in the humanities from a theoretical point of view.
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