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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

PHIL 1100

A general introduction to some of the main topics, texts, and methods of philosophy. Topics may include the existence of God, the nature of mind and its relation to the body, causation, free will, knowledge ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3560 PHIL 1100   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3561 PHIL 1100   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3562 PHIL 1100   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5458 PHIL 1100   DIS 205

    • R Uris Hall 498
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11199 PHIL 1100   DIS 206

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17470 PHIL 1100   DIS 207

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17471 PHIL 1100   DIS 208

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17473 PHIL 1100   DIS 210

    • F Uris Hall G20
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 1110

This First-Year Writing Seminar is about using philosophy and everyday life and provides the opportunity to write extensively about these issues.  Topics vary by section. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Ethics-Sex& Relationships

  • 20156 PHIL 1110   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Feminism for All Genders

  • 20157 PHIL 1110   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PHIL 1111

This First-Year Writing Seminar discusses problems in philosophy and gives the opportunity to write about them.  Topics vary by section. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Moral Relativism and Moral Skepticism

  • 20159 PHIL 1111   SEM 101

    • TR Sibley Hall 115
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Korzukhin, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Framing—The Ethics and Politics of Art

  • 20160 PHIL 1111   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Nietzsche's Genealogy on Morality

  • 20304 PHIL 1111   SEM 103

    • MWF Morrill Hall 102
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Jovanovska, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Nietzsche's Genealogy on Morality

  • 20305 PHIL 1111   SEM 104

    • MWF White Hall B02
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Jovanovska, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PHIL 1112

This First-Year Writing Seminar offers the opportunity to discuss and write about philosophy.  Topics vary by section. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Borders, Immigration, and Citizenship

  • 20161 PHIL 1112   SEM 101

    • MW White Hall B06
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Yost, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Philosophy of Fun

  • 20162 PHIL 1112   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

  • 20163 PHIL 1112   SEM 103

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Ancient Greek and Roman Skepticism

  • 20164 PHIL 1112   SEM 104

    • MW Clark Hall 294E
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kumar, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Methods of Buddhist Phil

  • 20165 PHIL 1112   SEM 105

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Ethics and Moral Psychology in Technology

  • 20166 PHIL 1112   SEM 106

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Ancient Greek & Asian Phil

  • 20167 PHIL 1112   SEM 107

    • TR Uris Hall 331
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Zgurich, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Asian Philosophy

  • 20168 PHIL 1112   SEM 108

    • TR Uris Hall 331
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Zgurich, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Liberalism and Neoliberalism

  • 20306 PHIL 1112   SEM 109

    • TR Uris Hall 302
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Gerber, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PHIL 1440

We all face difficult moral decisions on occasion. This course introduces students to the idea that we face such a decision several times a day in deciding what to eat. How should facts about animal life ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18702 PHIL 1440   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 1620

This course provides an introduction to the science of the mind. Everyone knows what it's like to think and perceive, but this subjective experience provides little insight into how minds emerge from physical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18246 PHIL 1620   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall G01
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Nichols, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 1621

This section is highly recommended for students who are interested in learning about the topics covered in the main course through writing and discussion.  view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COGST 1104LING 1104PSYCH 1104

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  • 19413 PHIL 1621   SEM 101

    • F Uris Hall 254
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • West, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 1950

In recent years, poverty and inequality have become increasingly common topics of public debate, as academics, journalists, and politicians attempt to come to terms with growing income inequality, with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5019 PHIL 1950   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5520 PHIL 1950   DIS 201

    • F Statler Hall 165
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Young, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5521 PHIL 1950   DIS 202

    • F Statler Hall 341
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Young, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5522 PHIL 1950   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5523 PHIL 1950   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5524 PHIL 1950   DIS 205

    • F Uris Hall 202
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Young, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5525 PHIL 1950   DIS 206

    • F Uris Hall 202
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Young, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5526 PHIL 1950   DIS 207

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5527 PHIL 1950   DIS 208

    • F Statler Hall 441
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Young, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5633 PHIL 1950   DIS 209

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5634 PHIL 1950   DIS 210

    • F Ives Hall 109
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Young, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 1960

An introduction to leading topics in legal theory and political philosophy such as: what the laws should be, how they shape and are shaped by society, how they are and should be interpreted, the proper ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6177 PHIL 1960   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2200

An introductory survey of ancient Greek philosophy from the so-called Presocratics (6th century BCE) through the Hellenistic period (1st century BCE) with special emphasis on the thought of Socrates, Plato, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CLASS 2661

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4850 PHIL 2200   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4852 PHIL 2200   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5537 PHIL 2200   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6060 PHIL 2200   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2240

Survey of European social theory from Hegel to Foucault (via Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, and the Frankfurt School). view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3475

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17393 PHIL 2240   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17394 PHIL 2240   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2300

This course will survey a number of famous paradoxes about the nature of time, identity, logic, science, belief, decision, and value. Some of these paradoxes have widely accepted answers, but many do not. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COGST 2305

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10547 PHIL 2300   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10631 PHIL 2300   DIS 201

    • F White Hall 110
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2310

Covers sentential languages, the truth-functional connectives, and their logic; first-order languages, the quantifiers "every" and "some," and their logic. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COGST 2310

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6222 PHIL 2310   LEC 001

    • MWF Morrill Hall 107
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6371 PHIL 2310   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2420

This course will examine key issues in social and political philosophy. Topics may include the legitimacy of the state, political obligation, the nature and demands of justice, equality, liberty, and autonomy. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 2605

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17466 PHIL 2420   LEC 001

    • MW Morrill Hall 111
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Yost, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2455

Bioethics is the study of ethical questions raised by advances in the medical field. Questions we'll discuss will include: Is it morally permissible to advance a patient's death, at his or her request, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: SHUM 2455STS 2451

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5991 PHIL 2455   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5992 PHIL 2455   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6010 PHIL 2455   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11091 PHIL 2455   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2540

This course will survey the rich and sophisticated tradition of Indian philosophical thought from its beginnings in the speculations of Upanishads, surveying debates between Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17415 PHIL 2540   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2830

This course is an introduction to decision theory. Decision theory aims to answer a fundamental normative question: what ought one to do, given what one believes and values. Modern decision theory is a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11594 PHIL 2830   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall G26
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Korzukhin, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18720 PHIL 2830   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2990

This course explores the meaning of Law and Society, which is an interdisciplinary study of the interactive nature of legal and social forces. A law and society perspective places law in its historical, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  6259 PHIL 2990   LEC 001

    • MW Rockefeller Hall 230
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Bateman, D

      Lyon, B

      Markovits, J

      York Cornwell, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Class will be team-taught by four faculty members over the course of the semester.

PHIL 3180

In this course, we will consider some philosophical writings from the last third of the 19th century through the early 20th century that are both of interest in themselves and helped shape philosophical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 6180

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10554 PHIL 3180   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3203

We will study several of Aristotle's major works, including the Categories, Physics, Posterior Analytics, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics. Topics include nature and change, form and matter, the nature ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3664PHIL 6203

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17468 PHIL 3203   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3340

Modal logic is a general logical framework for systematizing reasoning about qualified and relativized truth. It has been used to study the logic of possibility, time, knowledge, obligation, provability, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MATH 3850PHIL 6311

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17476 PHIL 3340   SEM 101

    • TR Morrill Hall 111
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kocurek, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3610

This course will be an advanced introduction to some contemporary debates in epistemology. We will start by considering skeptical arguments that we cannot really know whether the world is the way it appears ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 6610

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11462 PHIL 3610   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall 204
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Pavese, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3700

Concepts are properties of individuals that approximately correspond to word meanings. They play a role in Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence.  The course looks at ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18548 PHIL 3700   LEC 001

    • TR Sibley Hall 208
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Rooth, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3710

An introduction to some of the main issues in the philosophy of language. Topics may include names, definite descriptions, belief ascriptions, truth-conditional theories of meaning, pragmatics, and metaphor. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 3332PHIL 6713

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10597 PHIL 3710   LEC 001

    • MW White Hall 110
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3900

To be taken only in exceptional circumstances. Must be arranged by the student with his or her advisor and the faculty member who has agreed to direct the study. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6134 PHIL 3900   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Nichols, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6135 PHIL 3900   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Manne, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4493 PHIL 3900   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4494 PHIL 3900   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4495 PHIL 3900   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kosch, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4496 PHIL 3900   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4498 PHIL 3900   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Pereboom, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4499 PHIL 3900   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Silins, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4500 PHIL 3900   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Marmor, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5087 PHIL 3900   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Manne, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5907 PHIL 3900   IND 621

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kocurek, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5908 PHIL 3900   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Atiq, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PHIL 4003

Reading, translation, and English-language discussion of important texts in the German philosophical tradition. Readings for a given term are chosen in consultation with students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6131PHIL 6030

  • 1-2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6011 PHIL 4003   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4410

Advanced seminar covering a topic in ethics and value theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 6410

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Diverse Embodiments

  •  6182 PHIL 4410   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4430

Advanced discussion of a topic in social and political philosophy. 2023 topic: Race, Gender, and Technology. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6656GOVT 6656PHIL 6430

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Race, Gender, and Technology

  • 19996 PHIL 4430   SEM 101

    • MW Uris Hall 202
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Thompson, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Course will be taught by visiting Mellon Humanities postdoc Morgan Thompson. From predictive-policing algorithms to workplace surveillance systems, technologies originally developed for policing, welfare systems, and prisons have rapidly expanded into other domains of society, including hospitals, schools, banking, social services, and digital life. While the sophistication and ease with which data can be collected and shared has advanced, social data has long been collected by governments. How does the social classification used by the state impact those who are classified? Who ought to be in control of maintaining this data or deciding its uses? Can technologies created for criminal justice systems be extracted from their biased roots? How do these technologies interact with our societal and ethical values of privacy, equality, and justice? How do considerations of gender and race shape technologies, technical design, and technology policies? This class culminates in a focus on justice- and ethics-oriented approaches to science and technology that envision how technology might contribute to liberatory ends.

PHIL 4730

Introduces methods for theorizing about meaning within generative grammar. These techniques allow the creation of grammars that pair syntactic structures with meanings. Students look at several empirical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: LING 4421LING 6421PHIL 6730

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5621 PHIL 4730   LEC 001

    • MW Sibley Hall 211
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19051 PHIL 4730   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PHIL 4900

Majors in philosophy may choose to pursue writing of an honors thesis in their senior year. Students undertake research leading to the writing of an honors essay by the end of the final semester. Prospective ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6143 PHIL 4900   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Nichols, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4593 PHIL 4900   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5437 PHIL 4900   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Markovits, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6530 PHIL 4900   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Hubner, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4594 PHIL 4900   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4595 PHIL 4900   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kosch, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4596 PHIL 4900   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4598 PHIL 4900   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Pereboom, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4599 PHIL 4900   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Silins, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  4600 PHIL 4900   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Marmor, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5081 PHIL 4900   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Manne, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5082 PHIL 4900   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5909 PHIL 4900   IND 621

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kocurek, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5910 PHIL 4900   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Atiq, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6468 PHIL 4900   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Yost, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PHIL 4901

Majors in philosophy may choose to pursue writing of an honors thesis in their senior year. Students undertake research leading to the writing of an honors essay by the end of the final semester. Prospective ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5090 PHIL 4901   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PHIL 4995

This richly interdisciplinary course examines trans issues in the transnational context of North and South America. Focusing on the tensions and cross-pollinations of (especially US and Canadian) trans ... view course details

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  • 18917 PHIL 4995   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6010

Reading and translation of Greek Philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GREEK 7161

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6369 PHIL 6010   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6020

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATIN 7262MEDVL 6020RELST 6020

  • 1-2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 21251 PHIL 6020   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6030

Reading, translation, and English-language discussion of important texts in the German philosophical tradition. Readings for a given term are chosen in consultation with students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6131PHIL 4003

  • 1-2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5463 PHIL 6030   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6100

Seminar for first year Philosophy graduate students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  3918 PHIL 6100   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6180

In this course, we will consider some philosophical writings from the last third of the 19th century through the early 20th century that are both of interest in themselves and helped shape philosophical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 3180

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • 18828 PHIL 6180   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6200

Advanced discussion of topics in ancient philosophy. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 7173

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Plato on Political Expertise

  • 17534 PHIL 6200   SEM 101

    • W Olin Library 603
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kamtekar, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6203

We will study several of Aristotle's major works, including the Categories, Physics, Posterior Analytics, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics. Topics include nature and change, form and matter, the nature ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3664PHIL 3203

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18809 PHIL 6203   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6290

An introduction to current research in the history of philosophy primarily through engagement with a variety of presentations of such research by Cornell faculty, visiting scholars, and advanced graduate ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17514 PHIL 6290   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6311

Advanced discussion of a topic in logic or foundational mathematics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MATH 3850PHIL 3340

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Modal Logic

  • 19600 PHIL 6311   LEC 001

    • TR Morrill Hall 111
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kocurek, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6410

Graduate seminar covering a topic in ethics and value theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 4410

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Diverse Embodiments

  •  5993 PHIL 6410   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6430

Advanced discussion of a topic in social and political philosophy. Topic for Fall 2023: Race, Gender, and Technology. Topic for Spring 2024: Authority, Coercion, and the Rule of Law. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6656GOVT 6656PHIL 4430

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Race, Gender, and Technology

  • 19338 PHIL 6430   SEM 101

    • MW Uris Hall 202
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Thompson, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Course will be taught by visiting Mellon Humanities postdoc Morgan Thompson.
    From predictive-policing algorithms to workplace surveillance systems, technologies originally developed for policing, welfare systems, and prisons have rapidly expanded into other domains of society, including hospitals, schools, banking, social services, and digital life. While the sophistication and ease with which data can be collected and shared has advanced, social data has long been collected by governments. How does the social classification used by the state impact those who are classified? Who ought to be in control of maintaining this data or deciding its uses? Can technologies created for criminal justice systems be extracted from their biased roots? How do these technologies interact with our societal and ethical values of privacy, equality, and justice? How do considerations of gender and race shape technologies, technical design, and technology policies? This class culminates in a focus on justice- and ethics-oriented approaches to science and technology that envision how technology might contribute to liberatory ends.

PHIL 6610

An intensive seminar on a special topic in epistemology to be determined by the instructor. Potential topics include: What are the limits of knowledge? What is the extent and nature of our knowledge of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 3610

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • 11467 PHIL 6610   SEM 101

    • MW Uris Hall 204
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Pavese, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6611

Advanced discussion of a topic in philosophical action theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Skills, Knowledge, and Intelligence

  • 10606 PHIL 6611   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6640

Graduate seminar covering a topic in Metaphysics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Personal Identity and the Self

  • 18836 PHIL 6640   SEM 101

    • R Morrill Hall 110
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Nichols, S

      Shoemaker, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6700

Concepts are properties of individuals that approximately correspond to word meanings. They play a role in Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence.  The course looks at ... view course details

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  • 18550 PHIL 6700   LEC 001

    • TR Sibley Hall 208
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Rooth, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6713

An introduction to some of the main issues in the philosophy of language. Topics may include names, definite descriptions, belief ascriptions, truth-conditional theories of meaning, pragmatics, and metaphor. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 3332PHIL 3710

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • 11514 PHIL 6713   LEC 001

    • MW White Hall 110
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6730

Introduces methods for theorizing about meaning within generative grammar. These techniques allow the creation of grammars that pair syntactic structures with meanings. Students look at several empirical ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: LING 4421LING 6421PHIL 4730

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5622 PHIL 6730   LEC 001

    • MW Sibley Hall 211
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19065 PHIL 6730   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PHIL 6740

Addresses current theoretical and empirical issues in semantics. view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: LING 7711

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Super-linguistics: empirical and theoretical

  •  5623 PHIL 6740   SEM 101

    • T Morrill Hall 102
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Abusch, D

      Rooth, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Topic Notes: Focus and Ellipsis The seminar will look at these phenomena, and interactions between them. Topics include alternative semantics for focus and contrastive topic; the prosodic phonology of focus; interactions among focus, ellipsis, and bound variables; focus and scalar implicature; syntactic and semantic formulations of ellipsis; focus licensing of ellipsis; arguments against alternative semantics for focus; arguments favoring syntactic or semantic accounts of ellipsis. A few classes will also be dedicated to cross-modal semantics.

  • 19946 PHIL 6740   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 1, 2023
    • Abusch, D

      Rooth, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PHIL 6995

This richly interdisciplinary course examines trans issues in the transnational context of North and South America. Focusing on the tensions and cross-pollinations of (especially US and Canadian) trans ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18907 PHIL 6995   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 7000

Independent study for graduate students only. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11987 PHIL 7000   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kamtekar, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4574 PHIL 7000   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Nichols, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4575 PHIL 7000   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12043 PHIL 7000   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Shoemaker, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5438 PHIL 7000   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Markovits, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4576 PHIL 7000   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Fine, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4577 PHIL 7000   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4578 PHIL 7000   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kosch, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4579 PHIL 7000   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4580 PHIL 7000   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4581 PHIL 7000   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Pereboom, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6531 PHIL 7000   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Hubner, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4582 PHIL 7000   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Silins, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4583 PHIL 7000   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Doris, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4584 PHIL 7000   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Marmor, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5062 PHIL 7000   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5063 PHIL 7000   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Manne, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5911 PHIL 7000   IND 621

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Kocurek, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5912 PHIL 7000   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Atiq, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 21291 PHIL 7000   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Basu, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PHIL 7900

This course is designed to help prepare Philosophy graduate students for the academic job market. Though students will study sample materials from successful job applicants, much of the seminar will function ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  5423 PHIL 7900   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person