PHIL - Philosophy

Offered By:
Faculty of Arts

Below are the courses available from the PHIL code. Select a course to view the available classes, additional class notes, and class times.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 2-1S-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

An introduction to the classical problems of philosophy through study and critical discussion of selected philosophical classics and contemporary works. Emphasis will be placed on questions of moral and other values and on the nature of society and justice.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 2-1S-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

An introduction to the classical problems of philosophy through study and critical discussion of selected philosophical classics and contemporary works. Emphasis will be placed on questions of the nature and extent of human knowledge and classic problems about the nature of reality and our place in it.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A study of sentential logic, including translation, semantics, decision procedures and natural deduction followed by an introduction to predicate logic, concentrating on translation. Note: Not open to students with credit in PHIL 220.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Elementary methods and principles for analyzing reasoning as it occurs in everyday contexts. Topics may include informal fallacies, introduction to scientific method, elementary statistical reasoning, elementary sentential logic, as well as the study of argument in contemporary debates about issues of social concern.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Basic questions concerning the nature of reality. Topics may include existence, materialism and idealism, freedom and determinism, appearance and reality, causality, identity, time and space, universals and particulars.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

This course provides an overview of the ancient and classical period of Indian philosophy (500 BCE-1500 CE); major metaphysical and ethical concepts within traditions such as Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, and Buddhism. Note: Not open to students with credit in PHIL 302. Not open to students with credit in PHIL 301 completed prior to 2012.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A survey of the main figures and schools of thought in the Islamic world from the 10th to the 17th centuries CE.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

An introduction to Indigenous systems of knowledge as philosophical systems, which investigates these systems as parallel and coexisting with Western philosophical systems.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Basic questions concerning the mind and our attempts to study it scientifically.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Personal identity, interpersonal relationships, sex and gender, freedom and immortality in historical and contemporary contexts.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A study of such central topics in the theory of knowledge as truth and rationality, skepticism and the limits of knowledge, relativism and the objectivity of knowledge, the role of perception, memory and reason as sources of knowledge.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

The philosophical and social impact of historical and contemporary topics in the biological sciences.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Philosophies of the good life. Topics may include integrated wellness, attentiveness, objects of devotion, and community in historical and contemporary contexts.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A brief review of sentential logic followed by an intensive study of predicate logic with identity. Topics include translation, semantics, decision procedures, natural deduction systems, mathematical induction. Other topics include: theories of definite descriptions, elementary modal logic, formal axiomatic systems. Prerequisite: PHIL 120 or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A survey of the thought of the ancient Greek world from its beginnings with the Pre-Socratics up to and including Aristotle.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A philosophical examination of Socrates' death in its cultural, historical and political setting.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Issues concerning human beings, knowledge, ethics and society among Greek thinkers and their impact on Christian thought.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A survey of Philosophy in the 17th- and 18th centuries. Philosophers studied may include Descartes, Leibniz, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A survey of philosophy from the 5th to the 15th centuries; Philosophers from the Jewish, Islamic and Christian traditions.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

An examination of questions of right and wrong, good and evil, and the application of ethical theories to practical issues.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

An introduction to the central issues in contemporary philosophy of science. Topics may include theory evaluation, paradigm shifts and theory change, laws of nature, causation and explanation, the rationality of science and its social and historical setting.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Analysis and evaluation of selected moral and social issues.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A survey of issues in contemporary political philosophy with attention to liberalism and communitarianism, sovereignty, feminism, entitlement and distribution, and global justice.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

An introduction to feminist issues in current philosophy. Note: Not open to students with credit in PHIL 332.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

The moral, conceptual, existential, environmental, socio-political, and spiritual issues raised by the practice of hunting by humans.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

An introduction to some of the traditional theories, such as the expressionist and the formalist theories, which investigate the nature and function of the arts. The nature of aesthetic experience will also be considered.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

An investigation of the nature of law and of law's relationship to other systems of norms.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

An introduction to the background and main themes of existentialist philosophy. Authors such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre are considered.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Central topics at the interface of philosophy and psychology. Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Philosophical issues in Augustine: their historical context, significance, and influence. Prerequisite: At least 3 units in PHIL or consent of the College.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Core topics at the interface of biology and philosophy.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Philosophical issues in Aquinas: their historical context, significance, and influence. Prerequisite: At least 3 units in PHIL or consent of the College.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A study of the formal theory of rationality including probability and induction, and elementary decision theory, with attention to the paradoxes of choice.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

An in-depth study of the philosophy of Aristotle.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A historical survey of western philosophy from the end of classical antiquity until the sixteenth century.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Critical study of Christianity in dialogue with such worldviews as atheism, agnosticism, naturalism, materialism, existentialism, feminism, liberalism, postmodernism.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A survey of the philosophy of Kant and the 19th century. Philosophers studied may also include Hegel, Marx, Mill, and Nietzsche. Note: Not open to students with credit in PHIL 245.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Philosophical approaches to the question of comparative human and animal cognition, emotion, awareness, and language. The course will also address the problem of animal rights vis-à-vis individual and institutional human interests.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A philosophical investigation of theoretical questions about ethics, such as whether ethical values are objective or subjective, why we should be moral, whether virtues really exist, what role reason plays in ethical deliberation, and what constitutes the basis of our ethical obligations.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Philosophical dimensions of issues raised by our relationship to the environment.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

General topics in the Philosophy of Religion, which may include the concept of 'religion,' the existence of God, meaning and intelligibility in religious language, religion and morality, implications of the social scientific study of religion.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer
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3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Philosophical issues arising from computation and computer science. No previous familiarity with computing is necessary.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Cultural, social, ethical and political issues arising from the computer revolution and new digital technologies.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Overview of approaches to the foundations of mathematics and of philosophical issues concerning the nature of mathematical objects, mathematical theories and the special status of mathematics among the sciences and other areas of knowledge.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Ethical issues in business settings, dealing with such themes as employer-employee relations, job security, advertising, distribution of wealth, acquisitive individualism, the common good, and decision-making. Recommended preparation: 3 units in PHIL. Note: Not available for credit with CHRTC 394.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Ontological, epistemological, political and ethical issues arising through readings of classical and contemporary texts.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

An introduction to philosophical approaches to disability.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A broadly based introduction to the intellectual, cultural, and social dimensions of science and their implications. Topics may include the impact of the Newtonian revolution, mechanism, materialism and Darwinism, and the nature of objectivity and rationality.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

An introduction to the philosophical foundations of art criticism. Questions concerning the standards of interpretation and of evaluation of the arts will be given special attention.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Study of philosophical issues raised by films: distinguishing film from other arts (photography, theatre, video games), whether films depict or represent reality, emotional engagement, the relation of moral and aesthetic values, and approaches to film criticism.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A study of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence systems.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A study of ethical issues arising in health care and in the practice of health professions.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer

A critical exploration of existential themes and authors, such as Kierkegaard, Marcel, Buber. Prerequisite: At least 3 units in PHIL or consent of the College.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of the Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

The theoretical study of formal systems of logic. Topics include formal axiomatic systems, formal syntax and semantics, soundness and completeness proofs for both sentential and predicate logic. Prerequisite: PHIL 220 or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Standard modal systems in sentential and predicate logic including possible world semantics and completeness proofs. Tense logic and epistemic logic may be considered. Prerequisite: PHIL 220 or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: PHIL 220 or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Selected problems concerning the nature of language and meaning. Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Philosophical logic and its application to the semantics of natural language. Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: PHIL 272 or 332 (taken prior to 2006) or W ST 301 or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200 level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200 level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200 level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Topics concerning the early modern philosophical tradition. Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200 level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department. Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 0-3S-0) Open Study: Open, Spring / Summer
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3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Preparation of the honors essay, required in the fourth year of the Honors program.

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3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)
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3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: Open only to graduate students beyond the qualifying year.

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Prerequisite: Open only to graduate students beyond the qualifying year.

3 units (fi 6)(VAR, UNASSIGNED)

Capstone Research project required for and restricted to students in the course-based MA program.

1.5 units (fi 6)(VAR, UNASSIGNED)

Capstone Research project required for and restricted to students in the course-based MA program.

1.5 units (fi 6)(VAR, UNASSIGNED)

Capstone Research project required for and restricted to students in the course-based MA program.