Fall 2011
PHIL 198. FYS: Knowledge and Ideas in Early Modern Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An introduction to central issues in the philosophy of the early modern period through an examination of works by, for example, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley and Hume.
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1 who may take only one FYS
- Enrollment limit 25. Students who register for more than one First Year Seminar will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Language of instruction is English.
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PHIL 200. Introduction to Philosophy 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
A course treating some of the central problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem, freedom, scepticism and certainty, fate, time, and the existence of God.
- Philosophy students may use either PHIL 200 or PHIL 201 towards their program requirements, but not both. Students may, however, take both for credit (using the second as an elective), as the content in PHIL 201 does not overlap with PHIL 200
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PHIL 210. Introduction to Deductive Logic 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025
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Description
An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318
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PHIL 230. Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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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.
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PHIL 242. Introduction to Feminist Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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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.
- Note: Since this course is being taught abroad, the Victoria Day statutory holiday will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, students are expected to attend their lecture on Monday, May 19, 2014.
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PHIL 301. Philosophical Fundamentals.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An intensive study of basic philosophical skills; reading, writing, analysis, and argumentation.
- Prerequisites: two previous courses in philosophy, one of which must be PHIL 210 or written consent of the Department
- Restriction: Open only to and required of Philosophy Honours and Joint Honours students
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PHIL 327. Philosophy of Race.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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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.
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PHIL 334. Ethical Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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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.
- Prerequisite: one of PHIL 230, PHIL 237, PHIL 242, PHIL 343, or written permission of the instructor
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PHIL 341. Philosophy of Science 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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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.
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PHIL 343. Biomedical Ethics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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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.)
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PHIL 344. Medieval and Renaissance Political Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of Medieval and Renaissance political theory.
- Not open to students who have taken or are taking POLI 334.
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PHIL 366. 18th and Early 19th Century German Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of the works of such philosophers as Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, Schelling, and Hegel.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 360 or PHIL 361 is recommended
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PHIL 375. Existentialism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025
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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.
- Prerequisite: one course in philosophy
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PHIL 415. Philosophy of Language.
Credits: 3
Offered 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.
- Prerequisites: PHIL 210 or equivalent and one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 434. Metaethics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
A study of the status of sentences containing moral terms, judgements about moral claims, and the nature of moral facts.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 334 or written permission of the instructor
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PHIL 475. Topics in Contemporary European Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Advanced discussion of selected themes in contemporary European philosophy.
- Prerequisite: one intermediate course in philosophy
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Winter 2012
PHIL 201. Introduction to Philosophy 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An introduction to some of the major problems of philosophy. This course does not duplicate .
- Philosophy students may use either PHIL 200 or PHIL 201 towards their program requirements, but not both. Students may, however, take both for credit (using the second as an elective), as the content in PHIL 201 does not overlap with PHIL 200
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PHIL 237. Contemporary Moral Issues.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Winter 2026
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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.
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PHIL 310. Intermediate Logic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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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.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 210 or equivalent
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PHIL 350. History and Philosophy of Ancient Science.
Credits: 3
Offered 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.
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PHIL 353. The Presocratic Philosophers.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of the surviving fragments of the presocratic philosophers and schools of philosophy, as well as later reports of their views.
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PHIL 355. Aristotle.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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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.
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PHIL 360. 17th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of the work of such seventeenth-century philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Gassendi, Malebranche, Leibniz, and the Cambridge Platonists.
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PHIL 361. 18th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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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.
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PHIL 367. 19th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An examination of the works of such 19th century philosophers as Mach, Helmholtz, Dedekind, Frege, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Mill and Bradley.
- Prerequisite: A previous course in philosophy is recommended
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PHIL 411. Topics in Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics.
Credits: 3
Offered 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.
- Prerequisites: PHIL 210 or the equivalent, and one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 442. Topics in Feminist Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Advanced discussion of topical and central themes in feminist theory.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 242 and one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 445. 19th Century Political Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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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.
- Prerequisite: at least one course in political philosophy
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 434
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PHIL 446. Current Issues in Political Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected issues in contemporary political philosophy.
- Prerequisite: at least one course in political philosophy
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PHIL 453. Ancient Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered 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.
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PHIL 460. Major Philosophers 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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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.
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PHIL 474. Phenomenology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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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.
- Prerequisite: one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 481. Topics in Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered 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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