Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2021-22 and to determine the term of offering, consult the Public Class Schedule available at http://www.carleton.ca/registrar/registration/
Course outlines from previous years can be found in the archives:
Course numbers are linked to Undergraduate Calendar course information.
Course titles are linked to a Course Outline.
Course outlines will be available starting mid-August.
First Year
Second Year
Third Year
PHIL 3000 | Topics in Ancient Philosophy (not offered) |
PHIL 3001 | Early Greek Philosophy (not offered) |
PHIL 3002 | 17th Century Philosophy (not offered) |
PHIL 3003 | 18th Century Philosophy (Winter) |
PHIL 3005 | 19th Century Philosophy (Fall) |
PHIL 3009 | Topics in European Philosophy (not offered) |
PHIL 3010 | Philosophical Traditions (not offered) |
PHIL 3104 | The Roots of Analytic Philosophy (Fall) |
PHIL 3140 | Epistemology (not offered) |
PHIL 3150 | Metaphysics (Winter) |
PHIL 3301 | Issues in the Philosophy of Science (not offered) |
PHIL 3306 | Symbolic Logic (not offered) |
PHIL 3320 | Contemporary Ethical Theory (Winter) |
PHIL 3330 | Topics in History of Social and Political Philosophy (not offered) |
PHIL 3340 | Topics in Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy (not offered) |
PHIL 3350 | Philosophy, Ethics, and Public Affairs (Fall) |
PHIL 3360 | Philosophy, Economics, and Public Policy (not offered) |
PHIL 3380 | Environments, Technology and Values (not offered) |
PHIL 3501 | Philosophy of Cognitive Science (not offered) |
PHIL 3502 | Mind and Action (not offered) |
PHIL 3504 | Pragmatics (not offered) |
PHIL 3506 | Semantics (not offered) |
PHIL 3530 | Philosophy of Language (Winter) |
PHIL 3540 | Philosophy of Emotions (Fall) |
PHIL 3901 | Independent Study |
Fourth Year
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PHIL 4003 | Seminar in Philosophy Before the Modern Period (not offered) |
PHIL 4004 | Seminar in Philosophy Before the Modern Period (not offered) |
PHIL 4005 | Seminar in Modern Philosophy: A Historical Introduction to F.W.J. Schelling’s Philosophy of Freedom (Schelling’s Philos. of Freedom in Carleton Central) (Winter) |
PHIL 4006 | Seminar in Modern Philosophy: Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Fall) |
PHIL 4007 | Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy (not offered) |
PHIL 4008 | Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy: The Corporation (Fall) |
PHIL 4055 | Lexical Semantics (not offered) |
PHIL 4100 | Special Topic in Philosophy: Health and Distributive Justice (Winter) |
PHIL 4210 | Seminar in Philosophy of Language or Linguistics: Literal vs. Non-Literal Meaning (Winter) |
PHIL 4220 | Seminar in Philosophy of Mind or Cognition: Iris Murdoch and Behaviourism in the Philosophy of Mind (Fall) |
PHIL 4230 | Seminar in Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Science (not offered) |
PHIL 4300 | Seminar in Ethical or Moral Philosophy: Realism, Anti-Realism and Non-Realism in Metaethics and Metaphilosophy (not offered) |
PHIL 4320 | Seminar in Ethics or Moral Philosophy (not offered) |
PHIL 4330 | Seminar in Social or Political Philosophy (not offered) |
PHIL 4505 | Contemporary Formal Semantics (not offered) |
PHIL 4507 | Contemporary Formal Semantics (not offered) |
PHIL 4900 | Tutorial |