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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

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

  •  5239 PHIL 1100   LEC 001

  •  5240 PHIL 1100   DIS 201

  •  5241 PHIL 1100   DIS 202

  •  5242 PHIL 1100   DIS 203

  •  5243 PHIL 1100   DIS 204

  •  9055 PHIL 1100   DIS 205

  • 18527 PHIL 1100   DIS 206

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: Biology, Gender & Objectivity

  • 17734 PHIL 1110   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

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:Philosophy of Science

  • 17747 PHIL 1111   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Questions about Ethics

  • 17748 PHIL 1111   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Ethics

  • 17749 PHIL 1111   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Minds, Bodies, and Persons

  • 17750 PHIL 1111   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Business Ethics

  • 17751 PHIL 1111   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Puzzles in Ancient Ethics

  • 17752 PHIL 1111   SEM 106

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

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 and Death

  • 17760 PHIL 1112   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

PHIL 1900

On a weekly basis, Bethe Ansatz brings together students, Cornell faculty, and other distinguished guests for informal, substantive engagement around a wide range of issues and endeavors: intellectual, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  7776 PHIL 1900   SEM 101

PHIL 1901

Weekly informal discussion of urgent public issues posed by a central theme, such as inequality, foreign policy and immigration, or challenges to liberty and democracy. Recent public lectures organized ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 1901PHIL 1901SOC 1900

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Inequalities: How Deep? Why? What Should Be Done?

  • 18737 PHIL 1901   SEM 101

  • This semester's theme will be inequalities in the United States, political, economic, racial, social and educational. How deep do they run? What are the effects? What are the causes? Why do they matter? What should be done? We will be engaging with current research on these issues, including six public lectures during the semester (also accessible online) by leading figures in the study of inequality. There will also be brief presentations by Cornell researchers and brief initial debates. The course will emphasize conversation among participants, reflecting diverse perspectives.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 1901PHIL 1901SOC 1900

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Inequalities: How Deep? Why? What Should Be Done?

  • 18738 PHIL 1901   SEM 102

  • Two brief papers, of six to eight pages, will be required. This semester's theme will be inequalities in the United States, political, economic, racial, social and educational. How deep do they run? What are the effects? What are the causes? Why do they matter? What should be done? We will be engaging with current research on these issues, including six public lectures during the semester (also accessible online) by leading figures in the study of inequality. There will also be brief presentations by Cornell researchers and brief initial debates. The course will emphasize conversation among participants, reflecting diverse perspectives.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 1901PHIL 1901SOC 1900

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Inequalities: How Deep? Why? What Should Be Done?

  • 18841 PHIL 1901   SEM 103

  • This semester's theme will be inequalities in the United States, political, economic, racial, social and educational. How deep do they run? What are the effects? What are the causes? Why do they matter? What should be done? We will be engaging with current research on these issues, including six public lectures during the semester (also accessible online) by leading figures in the study of inequality. There will also be brief presentations by Cornell researchers and brief initial debates. The course will emphasize conversation among participants, reflecting diverse perspectives.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 1901PHIL 1901SOC 1900

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Inequalities: How Deep? Why? What Should Be Done?

  • 18842 PHIL 1901   SEM 104

  • Two brief papers, of six to eight pages, will be required. This semester's theme will be inequalities in the United States, political, economic, racial, social and educational. How deep do they run? What are the effects? What are the causes? Why do they matter? What should be done? We will be engaging with current research on these issues, including six public lectures during the semester (also accessible online) by leading figures in the study of inequality. There will also be brief presentations by Cornell researchers and brief initial debates. The course will emphasize conversation among participants, reflecting diverse perspectives.

PHIL 1910

This course provides an introduction to the science of the mind.  Most people have privileged access to one mind, yet this internal experience is often misleading and provides little insight into how minds ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  7743 PHIL 1910   LEC 001

PHIL 1911

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

  • 18183 PHIL 1911   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Swallow, K

PHIL 1920

This course offers a survey of modern political theory in the West.  We will examine some of the persistent dilemmas of political modernity and the attempts of several canonical political theorists to ... 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

  • 16215 PHIL 1920   LEC 001

  • 16216 PHIL 1920   DIS 201

  • 16217 PHIL 1920   DIS 202

  • 16218 PHIL 1920   DIS 203

  • 16219 PHIL 1920   DIS 204

  • 16220 PHIL 1920   DIS 205

  • 16221 PHIL 1920   DIS 206

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

  •  7546 PHIL 2220   LEC 001

  •  7547 PHIL 2220   DIS 201

  •  7548 PHIL 2220   DIS 203

  •  7549 PHIL 2220   DIS 204

PHIL 2240

Survey of European social theory from Hegel to Foucault (via Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, and the Frankfurt School). view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GERST 3530

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7802 PHIL 2240   LEC 001

  •  7804 PHIL 2240   DIS 201

PHIL 2530

In this course we will examine some of the major arguments regarding the existence and nature of a supreme being - ontological, cosmological, teleological, Pascalian, and moral arguments. We will also ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: RELST 2630

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16633 PHIL 2530   LEC 001

  • 16634 PHIL 2530   DIS 201

  • 16635 PHIL 2530   DIS 202

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. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8883 PHIL 2621   LEC 001

PHIL 2640

This course is an introduction to some of the central questions in metaphysics--the study of what there is and how it works. Possible topics include persistence through change, freedom of the will, the ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16643 PHIL 2640   LEC 001

  • 16644 PHIL 2640   DIS 201

  • 16645 PHIL 2640   DIS 202

PHIL 2961

This senior seminar offers an intensive research and reading experience in the philosophy of medicine, considering, in particular, questions about what physicians know, how that knowledge informs current ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 4411STS 4411

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17837 PHIL 2961   SEM 101

PHIL 3180

Writings about mind, language, logic, mathematics and knowledge from 1872 to around 1920. We will focus on writings by Brentano, Meinong, Frege, and early work by Russell. Time permitting, we will also ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16656 PHIL 3180   LEC 001

PHIL 3203

We will study several of Aristotle's major works, including the Categories, Physics, Posterior Analytics, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics. Topics include nature and change, form and matter, the nature ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3664

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16671 PHIL 3203   SEM 101

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: MATH 2810

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16673 PHIL 3310   LEC 001

  • 16674 PHIL 3310   DIS 201

PHIL 3480

Explores the most important debates in contemporary philosophy of law. We will examine the distinction between law and other social practices, the relation of law and morality, the problem of legal authority, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16118 PHIL 3480   LEC 001

PHIL 3710

An introduction to some of the main issues in the philosophy of language. Topics may include names, definite descriptions, belief ascriptions, truth-conditional theories of meaning, pragmatics, and metaphor. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 3332

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16677 PHIL 3710   LEC 001

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

  •  6194 PHIL 3900   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Bennett, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6219 PHIL 3900   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Boyd, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6806 PHIL 3900   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Brennan, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6807 PHIL 3900   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Chignell, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6808 PHIL 3900   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Marmor, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6809 PHIL 3900   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Fine, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6810 PHIL 3900   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Hodes, H

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6811 PHIL 3900   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Kosch, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6812 PHIL 3900   IND 609

    • TBA
    • MacDonald, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6813 PHIL 3900   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Miller, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6814 PHIL 3900   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Pereboom, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6838 PHIL 3900   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Silins, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6839 PHIL 3900   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Sturgeon, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6840 PHIL 3900   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Bulthuis, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7122 PHIL 3900   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Starr, W

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7123 PHIL 3900   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Smyth, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7124 PHIL 3900   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Markovits, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7251 PHIL 3900   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Sethi, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7806 PHIL 3900   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Manne, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7807 PHIL 3900   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Manne, D

PHIL 4002

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  7125 PHIL 4002   SEM 101

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

  •  7179 PHIL 4110   SEM 101

PHIL 4240

Discussion of an advanced topic in German philosophy. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4170GERST 6241PHIL 6240

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Kantian Approaches to Self-Consciousness

  • 16679 PHIL 4240   SEM 101

PHIL 4470

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

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Inequalities: Economic, Political, Social, &Racial

  • 16682 PHIL 4470   LEC 001

  • An investigation of the nature and moral significance of some major U.S. inequalities and proposals to reduce them: unequal political influence, unequal opportunity, the extreme concentration of income and wealth at the top, the persistence of stark racial inequalities, inequalities in education, and the interaction of disadvantages in sustaining poverty. Six meetings of the seminar will be led by eminent figures in the study of these inequalities: Benjamin Page (Political Science, Northwestern), Miles Corak (Economics, Ottawa), David Grusky (Sociology, Stanford), Prudence Carter (Education, Stanford), Cecilia Rouse (Economics, Princeton), Karl Alexander (Sociology, Johns Hopkins). In other weeks, the seminar will investigate controversies over social justice, democratic values, hierarchy, domination and freedom that shape the proper response to these inequalities, as well as studying further social inquiries.

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 4491

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16639 PHIL 4490   SEM 101

PHIL 4610

An intensive seminar on a special topic in epistemology to be determined by the instructor. Potential topics include: What are the limits of knowledge? What is the extent and nature of our knowledge of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 6610

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Knowledge and Mind

  •  8890 PHIL 4610   SEM 101

PHIL 4620

Advanced discussion of a topic in Philosophy of Mind. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 6620

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Free Will

  • 16690 PHIL 4620   SEM 101

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
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 4425LING 6425PHIL 6720

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16129 PHIL 4720   LEC 001

PHIL 4901

See Philosophy "Honors." view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6195 PHIL 4901   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Bennett, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6797 PHIL 4901   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Boyd, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6798 PHIL 4901   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Brennan, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6799 PHIL 4901   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Chignell, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16937 PHIL 4901   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Bulthuis, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6800 PHIL 4901   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Fine, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6801 PHIL 4901   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Hodes, H

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6802 PHIL 4901   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Kosch, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6803 PHIL 4901   IND 609

    • TBA
    • MacDonald, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6804 PHIL 4901   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Miller, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6805 PHIL 4901   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Pereboom, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6841 PHIL 4901   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Sethi, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6842 PHIL 4901   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Silins, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6843 PHIL 4901   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Sturgeon, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6844 PHIL 4901   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Marmor, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7634 PHIL 4901   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Manne, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7822 PHIL 4901   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Smyth, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7823 PHIL 4901   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Manne, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7824 PHIL 4901   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Starr, W

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

  •  7180 PHIL 6010   SEM 101

PHIL 6020

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  7119 PHIL 6020   SEM 101

PHIL 6240

Discussion of an advanced topic in German philosophy. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4170GERST 6241PHIL 4240

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Kantian Approaches to Self-Consciousness

  •  7597 PHIL 6240   SEM 101

PHIL 6410

Graduate seminar covering a topic in ethics and value theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Modern Moral Philosophy

  •  7554 PHIL 6410   SEM 101

PHIL 6430

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

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Inequalities: Economic, Political, Social,& Racial

  • 16686 PHIL 6430   LEC 001

  • An investigation of the nature and moral significance of some major U.S. inequalities and proposals to reduce them: unequal political influence, unequal opportunity, the extreme concentration of income and wealth at the top, the persistence of stark racial inequalities, inequalities in education, and the interaction of disadvantages in sustaining poverty. Six meetings of the seminar will be led by eminent figures in the study of these inequalities: Benjamin Page (Political Science, Northwestern), Miles Corak (Economics, Ottawa), David Grusky (Sociology, Stanford), Prudence Carter (Education, Stanford), Cecilia Rouse (Economics, Princeton), Karl Alexander (Sociology, Johns Hopkins). In other weeks, the seminar will investigate controversies over social justice, democratic values, hierarchy, domination and freedom that shape the proper response to these inequalities, as well as studying further social inquiries.

PHIL 6610

An intensive seminar on a special topic in epistemology to be determined by the instructor. Potential topics include: What are the limits of knowledge? What is the extent and nature of our knowledge of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 4610

  • 4 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Knowledge and Mind

  •  8889 PHIL 6610   SEM 101

PHIL 6620

Advanced discussion of a topic in Philosophy of Mind. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 4620

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Free Will

  • 16691 PHIL 6620   SEM 101

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
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 4425LING 6425PHIL 4720

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16131 PHIL 6720   LEC 001

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

  • 17947 PHIL 6951   SEM 101

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

  •  6845 PHIL 7000   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Bennett, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6846 PHIL 7000   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Boyd, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6847 PHIL 7000   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Brennan, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6848 PHIL 7000   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Chignell, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16933 PHIL 7000   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Bulthuis, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6849 PHIL 7000   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Fine, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6850 PHIL 7000   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Hodes, H

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6851 PHIL 7000   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Kosch, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6852 PHIL 7000   IND 609

    • TBA
    • MacDonald, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6853 PHIL 7000   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Miller, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6990 PHIL 7000   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Pereboom, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6991 PHIL 7000   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Sethi, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6992 PHIL 7000   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Silins, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6993 PHIL 7000   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Sturgeon, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6994 PHIL 7000   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Marmor, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7854 PHIL 7000   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Manne, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7855 PHIL 7000   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Starr, W

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7856 PHIL 7000   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Manne, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7857 PHIL 7000   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Smyth, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16991 PHIL 7000   IND 621

    • TBA
    • Markovits, J