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\n Contract Instructor Opportunities: Fall\/Winter 2025-26\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Please note all of our positions have now been filled.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Contract Instructor Opportunities<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Fall 2025 \/ Winter 2026
\n<\/strong>Department of Philosophy, Carleton University<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Note:<\/u> <\/strong> <\/strong>The modality of these courses is determined by the University (in-person, online, or hybrid). <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pursuant to Article 16 of the CUPE 4600 Unit 2 Collective Agreement, applications are invited from members of the CUPE 4600-2 bargaining unit and other interested persons to teach the following Philosophy courses during the Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 terms:<\/p>\n\n\n

Apply Now<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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PHIL 1000 [0.5 credit]:  Introductory Philosophy:  Fields, Figures and Problems<\/u><\/strong>
\nTerm Offered: Fall and Winter<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: Online for Fall; In-Person for Winter<\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 250 <\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This course will introduce students to some of the main branches of philosophy, such as epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, social philosophy, and aesthetics. In each of the branches that are covered, students will learn one or more of the perennial philosophical problems in that branch (e.g. knowledge of external world, free will and determinism, the possibility of objective morality possible, the nature of social justice), and in addition, the answers and arguments given on these questions by eminent historical and\/or contemporary philosophers. The goal of the course is to stimulate students\u2019 thinking about the chosen questions and provoke them to form views about them. The objective is not merely for them to understand how philosophers and others have answered these questions, but to understand and evaluate their arguments, recognizing their strengths and weaknesses, possibly trying<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 1200 [0.5 credit]: The Meaning of Life
\n<\/u><\/strong>Term Offered: Fall<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: Online <\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 250<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This course is intended as an introduction to philosophical issues surrounding the enduring question of life’s meaning. Through a consideration of a number of philosophical writings on the topic (particularly from 19th century, 20th century, and contemporary authors in the Western philosophical tradition), students will be familiarized with various examples of all three major approaches to life’s meaning, viz. supernaturalist (including religious) approaches, naturalist approaches, and nihilist (or pessimistic) approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 1550 [0.5 credit]: Introduction to Ethics and Social Issues
\n<\/u><\/strong>Term Offered: Fall<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: In-Person<\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 250<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An introduction to understanding, assessing, and formulating ethical arguments concerning controversial issues. Particular issues studied may include, world hunger, capital punishment, terrorism, euthanasia, abortion, pornography and hate speech, animal rights, the environment, and topics in theories of race, gender and disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 1700 [0.5 credit]:  Philosophy of Love and Sex<\/u><\/strong>
\nTerm Offered: Winter<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: Online <\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 250<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A survey of philosophical classics, on themes of romantic love, friendship, self-love, altruistic love, sexuality, eroticism and the passion\/reason dichotomy, from Plato’s Symposium to Foucault’s History of Sexuality; and an examination of related contemporary issues (such as pornography, sex work, polyamory, sexual ‘perversions’, S\/M) in light of these perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 2001 [0.5 credit]: Introduction to Logic<\/u><\/strong>
\nTerm Offered: Two sections in the Fall, and one section in the Winter<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: Online<\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 320<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An introduction to the techniques and philosophical implications of propositional and predicate logic with emphasis on translation of expressions into symbolic form, testing for logical correctness, the formulation and application of rules of inference, and the relation between logic and language. While the course will be accessible to students with non-philosophical backgrounds, the textbook and assignments will provide students with basic knowledge of propositional and predicate logic that are assumed by higher-level courses in philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 2003 [0.5 credit]:  Critical Thinking<\/u><\/strong>
\nTerm Offered: Fall and Winter<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: Online for Fall; In-Person for Winter<\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 250<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This course introduces students to basic principles of informal and formal reasoning. The main objective of the course is to enhance students’ capacity for critical thought in everyday life as well as in more specialized contexts. Topics explored in the course typically include: the nature and identification of arguments as reasons for belief; logical strength in deductive, inductive, and abductive arguments; common informal and formal argumentative fallacies; the method of counterexamples and other strategies for assessing the truth of argument premises; core insights from the probability calculus for estimating likelihoods; dealing with expert disagreement; and the special concerns of thinking critically about moral matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 2340 [0.5 credit]:  Philosophy and Pop Culture<\/u><\/strong>
\nTerm Offered: Winter<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: Online<\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 250<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philosophy is all around us, it permeates culture.  This course explores philosophical questions through the lens of popular culture.  The material used may include films, shows, music, novels, video games, advertising, comic books, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 2380 [0.5 credit]:  Introduction to Environmental Ethics<\/u><\/strong>
\nTerm Offered: Fall<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: In-Person<\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 125<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major questions in environmental ethics: How should human beings view their relationship to the rest of nature? Is responsible stewardship of the environment compatible with current technology? Must future generations be protected? Do animals, other life forms, endangered species, ecosystems and\/or the biosphere have value\/rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 2408 [0.5 credit]:  Bioethics<\/u><\/strong>
\nTerm Offered: Winter<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: In-Person<\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 125<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethical and political issues in medicine, public health, biotechnology, and the life sciences. Topics may include reproductive ethics, research on human subjects, animal research and treatment, justice and health care, physician-patient relationships, death and the end of life, and genetic engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 2504 [0.5 credit]:  Language and Communication <\/u><\/strong>
\nTerm Offered: Fall<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: Online <\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 250<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the central topics in the study of language and communication as pursued by linguists and philosophers. The nature of meaning; the connections between language, communication and cognition; language as a social activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 2601 [0.5 credit]:  Philosophy of Religion<\/u><\/strong>
\nTerm Offered: Fall<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: In-Person<\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 150<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: Yes<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A study of philosophical issues arising from religion. Topics may include: arguments for and against the existence of God, religious experience, death and the afterlife, miracles, God and evil, the relationship between religion and science, and the relationship between religion and ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHIL 3150 [0.5 credit]: Metaphysics<\/u><\/strong>
\nTerm Offered: Fall<\/strong>
\nDesignated Modality: In-Person<\/strong>
\nAnticipated Enrollment: 50<\/strong>
\nAnticipated TA Support: No<\/strong>
\n*Please note that anticipated TA support is based on anticipated enrollment and may change based on actual enrollment in a course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philosophical issues concerning the fundamental nature of being. Topics may include: time and temporality, space, substance, universals\/particulars, identity, causation, freedom\/determinism, the nature of norms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Application Procedures and Deadlines<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Required Professional Qualifications:<\/strong>  MA Degree in the appropriate field. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing Date and Time:<\/strong>  Monday, May 26, 11:59 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All applicants must apply electronically to the Department Head, at the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contract Instructor Application Fall\/Winter 2025-26<\/a><\/blockquote>