Courses 2022-23 - Philosophy

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 available at http://www.carleton.ca/registrar/registration/

Course outlines from previous years can be found in the archives:

First Year

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

Second Year

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

Third Year

PHIL 3000	Topics in Ancient Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 3001	Early Greek Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 3002	17th Century Philosophy (Winter)
PHIL 3003	18th Century Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 3005	19th Century Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 3009	Topics in European Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 3010	Philosophical Traditions (Winter)
PHIL 3104	The Roots of Analytic Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 3140	Epistemology (Winter)
PHIL 3150	Metaphysics (not offered)
PHIL 3301	Issues in the Philosophy of Science (not offered)
PHIL 3306	Symbolic Logic (not offered)
PHIL 3320	Contemporary Ethical Theory (not offered)
PHIL 3330	Topics in History of Social and Political Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 3340	Topics in Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 3350	Philosophy, Ethics, and Public Affairs (not offered)
PHIL 3360	Philosophy, Economics, and Public Policy (not offered)
PHIL 3380	Environments, Technology and Values (not offered)
PHIL 3450	Topics in Aesthetics (Fall)
PHIL 3501	Philosophy of Cognitive Science (not offered)
PHIL 3502	Mind and Action (Winter)
PHIL 3504	Pragmatics (Winter)
PHIL 3506	Semantics (Winter)
PHIL 3530	Philosophy of Language (not offered)
PHIL 3540	Philosophy of Emotions (not offered)
PHIL 3901	Independent Study

Fourth Year

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

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: Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (Winter)
PHIL 4006	Seminar in Modern Philosophy: Dreams and Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy (Fall)
PHIL 4007	Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy (not offered)
PHIL 4008	Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy: Democracy (Fall)
PHIL 4055	Lexical Semantics (Winter)
PHIL 4100	Special Topic in Philosophy: Philosophy of Skill (Fall)
PHIL 4100	Special Topic in Philosophy: (Winter)
PHIL 4210	Seminar in Philosophy of Language or Linguistics: “Madagascar” and Madagascar (Winter)
PHIL 4220	Seminar in Philosophy of Mind or Cognition: The Philosophical Psychology of Agency (Winter)
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

Summer 2022 Courses

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