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Courses 2022-23

Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2022-23 and to determine the term of offering, consult the Public Class Schedule.

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

Course numberCourse title
FYSM 1210AFirst Year Seminar, Special Topics: “Science Fiction and Philosophy” (Fall)
FYSM 1210BFirst Year Seminar, Special Topics:  “Minds and Machines” (Fall)
FYSM 1210AFirst Year Seminar, Special Topics:  “What We Argue About: Uprooting Contemporary Debates Using the History of Philosophy” (Winter)
FYSM 1210BFirst Year Seminar, Special Topics:  “Philosophy of Music” (Winter)
FYSM 1211AFirst Year Seminar: Looking at Philosophy (not offered)
FYSM 1212First Year Seminar: Contemporary Moral, Social, and Religious Issues (not offered)
PHIL 1000Introductory Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 1000Introductory Philosophy (Winter)
PHIL 1200The Meaning of Life (Fall)
PHIL 1200The Meaning of Life (Winter)
PHIL 1301AMind, World and Knowledge (Fall)
PHIL 1301BMind, World and Knowledge (Winter)
PHIL 1550Introduction to Ethics and Social Issues (Fall)
PHIL 1550Introduction to Ethics and Social Issues (Winter)
PHIL 1610Great Philosophical Ideas, Part 1 (not offered)
PHIL 1620Great Philosophical Ideas, Part 2 (not offered)
 PHIL 1700Philosophy of Love and Sex (Fall)

Second Year

Course numberCourse title
PHIL 2001AIntroduction to Logic (Fall)
PHIL 2001BIntroduction to Logic (Winter)
PHIL 2003ACritical Thinking (Fall)
PHIL 2003BCritical Thinking (Winter)
PHIL 2005Greek Philosophy and the Western Tradition (full year course)
PHIL 2010Issues in Theoretical Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 2020Issues in Practical Philosophy (Winter)
PHIL 2101History of Ethics  (not offered)
PHIL 2103 Philosophy of Human Rights (Fall)
PHIL 2106Information Ethics (not offered)
PHIL 2120Philosophy of Technology (not offered)
PHIL 2201Introduction to Marxist Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 2301Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Winter)
PHIL 2306Philosophy and Feminism (not offered)
PHIL 2307Gender and Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 2320Children, Literature, and Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 2330Happiness, Well-being, and the Good Life (Fall)
PHIL 2330Happiness, Well-being and the Good Life (Winter)
PHIL 2340Philosophy and Popular Culture (Winter)
PHIL 2380Introduction to Environmental Ethics (Winter)
PHIL 2405Philosophy of the Paranormal (not offered)
PHIL 2408Bioethics (Fall)
PHIL 2501Introduction to Philosophy of Mind (Fall)
PHIL 2504 Language and Communication (Winter)
PHIL 2520Introduction to Philosophical Logic (not offered)
PHIL 2540 Personal Identity and the Self (not offered)
PHIL 2550 Moral Psychology (Winter)
PHIL 2601Philosophy of Religion (not offered)
PHIL 2700Asian Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 2807Philosophy of Art (not offered)
PHIL 2901Truth and Propaganda (Winter)

Third Year

Course numberCourse title
PHIL 3000Topics in Ancient Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 3001Early Greek Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 300217th Century Philosophy (Winter)
PHIL 300318th Century Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 300519th Century Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 3009Topics in European Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 3010Philosophical Traditions (Winter)
PHIL 3104The Roots of Analytic Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 3140Epistemology (Winter)
PHIL 3150Metaphysics (not offered)
PHIL 3301Issues in the Philosophy of Science (not offered)
PHIL 3306Symbolic Logic (not offered)
PHIL 3320Contemporary Ethical Theory (not offered)
PHIL 3330Topics in History of Social and Political Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 3340Topics in Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 3350Philosophy, Ethics, and Public Affairs (not offered)
PHIL 3360Philosophy, Economics, and Public Policy (not offered)
PHIL 3380Environments, Technology and Values (not offered)
PHIL 3450Topics in Aesthetics (Fall)
PHIL 3501Philosophy of Cognitive Science (not offered)
PHIL 3502Mind and Action (Winter)
PHIL 3504Pragmatics (Winter)
PHIL 3506Semantics (Winter)
PHIL 3530Philosophy of Language (not offered)
PHIL 3540Philosophy of Emotions (not offered)
PHIL 3901Independent Study

Fourth Year

Click here to see the topics and abstracts for the Fourth Year Seminars

Course numberCourse title
PHIL 4003Seminar in Philosophy Before the Modern Period (not offered)
PHIL 4004Seminar in Philosophy Before the Modern Period (not offered)
PHIL 4005Seminar in Modern Philosophy: Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (Winter)
PHIL 4006Seminar in Modern Philosophy: Dreams and Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 4007Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 4008Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy: Democracy (Fall)
PHIL 4055Lexical Semantics (Winter)
PHIL 4100Special Topic in Philosophy:  Philosophy of Skill (Fall)
PHIL 4100Special Topic in Philosophy: (Winter)
PHIL 4210Seminar in Philosophy of Language or Linguistics: “Madagascar” and Madagascar (Winter)
PHIL 4220Seminar in Philosophy of Mind or Cognition: The Philosophical Psychology of Agency (Winter)
PHIL 4230Seminar in Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Science (not offered)
PHIL 4300Seminar in Ethical or Moral Philosophy:  Realism, Anti-Realism and Non-Realism in Metaethics and Metaphilosophy (not offered)
PHIL 4320Seminar in Ethics or Moral Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 4330Seminar in Social or Political Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 4505Contemporary Formal Semantics (not offered)
PHIL 4507Contemporary Formal Semantics (not offered)
PHIL 4900Tutorial

Summer 2022 Courses

Course numberCourse title
PHIL 1200The Meaning of Life (Early Summer)
PHIL 1301Mind, World and Knowledge (Late Summer); Click here for Topics and Readings
PHIL 2001Introduction to Logic (Early Summer)
PHIL 2003Critical Thinking (Late Summer)
PHIL 2340Philosophy and Popular Culture (Early Summer)
PHIL 2380Introduction to Environmental Ethics (Late Summer)
PHIL 2405Philosophy of the Paranormal (Late Summer)
PHIL 2408Bioethics (Early Summer)