Philosophy (PHIL)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

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

  •  3514 PHIL 1100   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7089 PHIL 1100   DIS 201

    • W Uris Hall 202
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7090 PHIL 1100   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3515 PHIL 1100   DIS 203

    • R White Hall 110
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17347 PHIL 1100   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5875 PHIL 1100   DIS 205

  • 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: Feminism, Gender, and Education

  • 18620 PHIL 1110   SEM 101

    • TR Rand Hall 304
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Manne, D

  • 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 in the Digital World

  • 18621 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

  • 18631 PHIL 1111   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:Race, Gender&Liberation in Latin American Phil

  • 18632 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/.

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: Philosophy of Fun

  • 18633 PHIL 1112   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: Philosophy of Love

  • 18634 PHIL 1112   SEM 102

    • MW Uris Hall G20
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Zhu, P

  • 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

  • 18635 PHIL 1112   SEM 103

    • MWF Uris Hall 369
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • McCellion, L

  • 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: Buddhist Bioethics

  • 18636 PHIL 1112   SEM 104

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

PHIL 1450

An introduction to some of the main contemporary moral issues. Topics may, for example, include animal rights, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, sexual morality, genetic engineering, and questions ... view course details

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17063 PHIL 1450   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17537 PHIL 1450   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17538 PHIL 1450   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17539 PHIL 1450   DIS 203

    • F Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • 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
  •  4949 PHIL 1620   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall G01
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Swallow, K

  • 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

  •  5373 PHIL 1621   SEM 101

    • F Morrill Hall 107
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Swallow, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 1650

This course offers an introduction to the philosophy of race. It canvasses key debates in the field concerning the metaphysical status of race, the relationship between the concept of race and racism (and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 1650

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6341 PHIL 1650   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Yost, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 1920

This course introduces students to political theory as a distinctive mode of political inquiry. By surveying the wide range of forms through which political theory has been practiced—such as treatises, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 1615

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5940 PHIL 1920   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5980 PHIL 1920   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5981 PHIL 1920   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5982 PHIL 1920   DIS 203

    • W Sibley Hall 115
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5983 PHIL 1920   DIS 204

    • W Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19929 PHIL 1920   DIS 205

    • W Uris Hall 302
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19930 PHIL 1920   DIS 206

    • W McGraw Hall 365
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2220

A survey of Western philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries: Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. We focus largely on epistemology (ideas, skepticism, belief, knowledge, science) ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5989 PHIL 2220   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5990 PHIL 2220   DIS 201

    • R Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7208 PHIL 2220   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7209 PHIL 2220   DIS 203

  • 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

  •  6230 PHIL 2310   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Korzukhin, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6233 PHIL 2310   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2410

This will be a lecture course on classic and contemporary work on central topics in ethics. The first third of the course will focus on metaethics: we will examine the meaning of moral claims and ask whether ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5445 PHIL 2410   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5446 PHIL 2410   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5762 PHIL 2410   DIS 202

    • F Sibley Hall 208
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17613 PHIL 2410   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2430

The course concerns the principles and philosophical arguments underlying conflicts and moral dilemmas of central and ongoing concern to society as they arise within legal contexts. We consider questions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 2432

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17064 PHIL 2430   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17561 PHIL 2430   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17562 PHIL 2430   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17563 PHIL 2430   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2610

An introduction to some central philosophical questions about knowledge and reality. Questions to be addressed may include: What, if anything, do we know? What is it for a belief to be reasonable? What ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17062 PHIL 2610   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Da Vee, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2621

Throughout history, metaphors drawn from technology of the time have been proposed to understand how the mind works. While Locke likened the newborn's mind to a blank slate, Freud compared the mind to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COGST 2621

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17523 PHIL 2621   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17524 PHIL 2621   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17525 PHIL 2621   DIS 202

    • W Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17526 PHIL 2621   DIS 203

    • F Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2810

We will look at some central questions about the nature of scientific theory and practice. What makes a discipline a science? Does science discover the objective truth about the world? How, and why, do ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: STS 2831

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17439 PHIL 2810   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 2960

Politicians, scientists, and citizens worldwide face many environmental issues today, but they are neither simple nor straightforward. Moreover, there are many ways to understand how we have, do, and could ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2061STS 2061

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6160 PHIL 2960   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6161 PHIL 2960   DIS 201

    • W Morrill Hall 111
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Chaudhuri, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6162 PHIL 2960   DIS 202

    • W White Hall 104
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Chaudhuri, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6163 PHIL 2960   DIS 203

    • W Morrill Hall 102
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Chaudhuri, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6164 PHIL 2960   DIS 204

    • W Morrill Hall 102
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Chaudhuri, A

  • 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. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7080 PHIL 2990   LEC 001

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

PHIL 3202

We will study several of Plato's major dialogues, including the Apology, the Meno, Phaedo, and Republic. Topics include knowledge and reality, morality and happiness, and the nature of the soul. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3669PHIL 6202

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17103 PHIL 3202   LEC 001

    • MWF Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3230

An intensive study of the metaphysical and epistemological doctrines of the Critique of Pure Reason. Some editions of the course may also consider Kant's ethical views as laid out in the Groundwork of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3590GERST 6221PHIL 6220

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17531 PHIL 3230   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3300

This will be a course on standard set theory (first developed by Ernst Zermelo early in the 20th century): the basic concepts of sethood and membership, operations on sets, functions as sets, the set-theoretic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: MATH 3840PHIL 6311

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17448 PHIL 3300   LEC 001

    • MWF Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17449 PHIL 3300   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3310

A mathematical study of the formal languages of standard first-order propositional and predicate logic, including their syntax, semantics, and deductive systems. The basic apparatus of model theory will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COGST 3310MATH 2810PHIL 6310

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17452 PHIL 3310   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17453 PHIL 3310   DIS 201

  • 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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17579 PHIL 3340   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3475

This course addresses central debates in the philosophy of legal punishment. We will analyze the leading theories of punishment, including the familiar retributivist and deterrent alternatives, as well ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LAW 6030PHIL 6475SHUM 3475

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17460 PHIL 3475   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Yost, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3480

This will be a class on various topics in the philosophy of law. Some questions we'll be considering: What is law? Do laws have moral content? What is the proper role of judges in interpreting the law? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17601 PHIL 3480   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Markovits, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 3525

The dominant strains in Euro-American philosophy tend either to erase or underplay the participation in and contributions to the constitution of "Western" philosophy of philosophers from the global African ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3402

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19724 PHIL 3525   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall 331
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Taiwo, O

  • 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. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6294 PHIL 3900   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Nichols, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6295 PHIL 3900   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Manne, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4516 PHIL 3900   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6585 PHIL 3900   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Hubner, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4517 PHIL 3900   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Marmor, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19269 PHIL 3900   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Lin, Q

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4518 PHIL 3900   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4519 PHIL 3900   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Kosch, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4520 PHIL 3900   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4522 PHIL 3900   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Pereboom, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4537 PHIL 3900   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Silins, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4691 PHIL 3900   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4692 PHIL 3900   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Kamtekar, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4693 PHIL 3900   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Markovits, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4963 PHIL 3900   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Manne, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4964 PHIL 3900   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Manne, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PHIL 3915

Moral Psychology in Action is an applied psychology course for students who want to make a difference in the world through ethical leadership and positive contributions in organizations, and who are drawn ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 4940PSYCH 4940

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17436 PHIL 3915   LEC 001

    • W Uris Hall 201
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Trautmann, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 4940PSYCH 4940

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 19678 PHIL 3915   LEC 002

    • W Uris Hall 205
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Trautmann, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4002

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  4694 PHIL 4002   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4110

Reading and translation of Greek philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GREEK 7161PHIL 6010

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18511 PHIL 4110   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4200

Advanced discussion of topics in ancient philosophy. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 4662CLASS 7173PHIL 6200

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Topics in Stoicism

  • 17694 PHIL 4200   SEM 101

    • M Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Brennan, T

      Brittain, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4210

Topics for this course vary. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17985 PHIL 4210   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4490

Feminist approaches to questions in metaphysics, epistemology, language, and value theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4491PHIL 6490

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6376 PHIL 4490   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4510

An investigation of central topics in the philosophy of art, with an emphasis on issues about the mind. Readings will be drawn from philosophy and psychology.  view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COGST 4510COGST 6510PHIL 6510

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Art and the Mind

  • 18693 PHIL 4510   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4570

This course surveys major schools of classical Chinese philosophy: Confucianism, Mohism, and Daoism. We focus on the Confucian vision of an ideal life, moral development, and self-cultivation, whereby ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4457ASIAN 6657PHIL 6570

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18694 PHIL 4570   LEC 001

    • T Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Lin, Q

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4640

Advanced discussion of a topic in metaphysics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 6640

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Conceptual Engineering

  • 17669 PHIL 4640   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    PREREQ: at least one philosophy course at level 3XXX or higher OR permission of the instructor.

PHIL 4710

An investigation of varying topics in the philosophy of language including reference, meaning, the relationship between language and thought, communication, modality, logic and pragmatics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 4712LING 6634PHIL 6710

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17660 PHIL 4710   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4720

What is the relationship between what words mean and how they are used? What is part of the grammar and what is a result of general reasoning? Pragmatics is often thought of as the study of how meaning ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5252 PHIL 4720   LEC 001

    • TR Morrill Hall 111
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Abusch, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 4900

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6263 PHIL 4900   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PHIL 4901

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4509 PHIL 4901   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4510 PHIL 4901   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Hubner, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4511 PHIL 4901   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4513 PHIL 4901   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4515 PHIL 4901   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Pereboom, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4538 PHIL 4901   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Sethi, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4539 PHIL 4901   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Silins, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4541 PHIL 4901   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Marmor, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4921 PHIL 4901   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Manne, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4966 PHIL 4901   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Kamtekar, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4967 PHIL 4901   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Manne, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4968 PHIL 4901   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5931 PHIL 4901   IND 621

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Kocurek, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5933 PHIL 4901   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Atiq, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7796 PHIL 4901   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Yost, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

PHIL 6010

Reading and translation of Greek Philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GREEK 7161PHIL 4110

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18513 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
  •  4688 PHIL 6020   SEM 101

  • 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 4662CLASS 7173PHIL 4200

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Topics in Stoicism

  • 17696 PHIL 6200   SEM 101

    • M Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Brennan, T

      Brittain, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6202

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3669PHIL 3202

  • 4 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • 17105 PHIL 6202   SEM 101

    • MWF Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6210

Graduate seminar covering a topic in medieval philosophy. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Augustine's "Confessions"

  •  7205 PHIL 6210   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    FOR SPRING 2023: No thinker has done more to shape the Western intellectual tradition than Augustine (354-430 CE), and no book displays Augustine's dynamic vision of reality more compellingly than the Confessions. Its probing and intimate reflections on the meaning of human life, the nature of God and mind, time and eternity, will and world, good and evil, love and sexuality have challenged every generation since Augustine's own. The course will be structured around a close, critically engaged reading of the Confessions (in English translation); special attention will be given to its philosophical and theological ideas, its place in Augustine's oeuvre, and its historical context and significance.

PHIL 6220

Advanced discussion of topics or authors in "modern" Western philosophy (circa the 17th and 18th centuries). view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3590GERST 6221PHIL 3230

  • 4 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Kant

  •  7418 PHIL 6220   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6310

A mathematical study of the formal languages of standard first-order propositional and predicate logic, including their syntax, semantics, and deductive systems. The basic apparatus of model theory will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: COGST 3310MATH 2810PHIL 3310

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17444 PHIL 6310   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18206 PHIL 6310   DIS 201

  • 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

  • 4 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Modal Logic

  • 17615 PHIL 6311   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture. Discussion optional. Combined with: MATH 3840PHIL 3300

  • 4 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Set Theory

  • 19554 PHIL 6311   LEC 002

    • MWF Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • Topic: Set Theory

  • 19997 PHIL 6311   DIS 202

  • 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: LAW 7743

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6086 PHIL 6410   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6430

Advanced discussion of a topic in social and political philosophy. view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Free Speech

  • 17107 PHIL 6430   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6475

This course addresses central debates in the philosophy of legal punishment. We will analyze the leading theories of punishment, including the familiar retributivist and deterrent alternatives, as well ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LAW 6030PHIL 3475SHUM 3475

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19541 PHIL 6475   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Yost, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6490

Feminist approaches to questions in metaphysics, epistemology, language, and value theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4491PHIL 4490

  • 4 Credits Sat/Unsat

  •  6434 PHIL 6490   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6510

An investigation of central topics in the philosophy of art, with an emphasis on issues about the mind. Readings will be drawn from philosophy and psychology. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COGST 4510COGST 6510PHIL 4510

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Art and the Mind

  • 18701 PHIL 6510   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6570

This course surveys major schools of classical Chinese philosophy: Confucianism, Mohism, and Daoism. We focus on the Confucian vision of an ideal life, moral development, and self-cultivation, whereby ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4457ASIAN 6657PHIL 4570

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18695 PHIL 6570   SEM 101

    • T Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Lin, Q

  • 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.  Combined with: PHIL 4640

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Conceptual Engineering

  • 17672 PHIL 6640   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    PREREQ: at least one philosophy course at level 3XXX or higher OR permission of the instructor.

PHIL 6710

An investigation of varying topics in the philosophy of language including reference, meaning, the relationship between language and thought, communication, modality, logic and pragmatics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 4712LING 6634PHIL 4710

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17663 PHIL 6710   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6720

What is the relationship between what words mean and how they are used?  What is part of the grammar and what is a result of general reasoning?  Pragmatics is often thought of as the study of how meaning ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  5254 PHIL 6720   LEC 001

    • TR Morrill Hall 111
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Abusch, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6731

Uses the techniques introduced in Semantics I to analyze linguistic phenomena, including quantifier scope, ellipsis, and referential pronouns. Temporal and possible worlds semantics are introduced and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 6422

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5531 PHIL 6731   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6740

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 7711

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17509 PHIL 6740   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

PHIL 6951

This course investigates the emergence of aesthetics as its own philosophical discipline at the end of the eighteenth century.  In a first phase, we will examine the rationalist articulation of aesthetics ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6560GERST 6560

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18081 PHIL 6951   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to graduate students.

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

  •  7787 PHIL 7000   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Shoemaker, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4543 PHIL 7000   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4545 PHIL 7000   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4546 PHIL 7000   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Kosch, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4547 PHIL 7000   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4627 PHIL 7000   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Pereboom, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4629 PHIL 7000   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Silins, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4630 PHIL 7000   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Doris, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4631 PHIL 7000   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Marmor, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6021 PHIL 7000   IND 616

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4977 PHIL 7000   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Manne, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4978 PHIL 7000   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4979 PHIL 7000   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Manne, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4980 PHIL 7000   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Kamtekar, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5351 PHIL 7000   IND 621

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Markovits, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6022 PHIL 7000   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
    • Atiq, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies