Philosophy (PHIL)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

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

  •  5380 PHIL 1100   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  5381 PHIL 1100   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  5382 PHIL 1100   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  5383 PHIL 1100   DIS 203

    • F Uris Hall 262
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  5384 PHIL 1100   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8639 PHIL 1100   DIS 205

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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 Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: FWS:Problems in Applied Ethics

  • 17763 PHIL 1110   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 303
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Esposito, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: FWS: Free Will and the Self

  • 17764 PHIL 1110   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: FWS: Environmental Ethics

  • 18409 PHIL 1110   SEM 103

    • TR Uris Hall G88
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Boeglin, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

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 Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: FWS:Philosophy of Science

  • 17765 PHIL 1111   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: FWS: Moral Relativism and Moral Skepticism

  • 18690 PHIL 1111   SEM 102

    • MWF Uris Hall 369
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Korzukhin, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

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 Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: FWS: Reason and Belief in God

  • 17821 PHIL 1112   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 301
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Da Vee, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: FWS: Ethics of Dying in Ancient Philosophy

  • 17822 PHIL 1112   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: FWS: Borders, Immigration, and Citizenship

  • 17824 PHIL 1112   SEM 104

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: FWS: Virtue and the Good Life

  • 17825 PHIL 1112   SEM 105

    • TR Uris Hall G88
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Gounot, Q

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

PHIL 1902

From marketing, to sharing our life experiences, to getting the news, social media permeates our lives. In the process, it raises important challenges regarding the self, corporate responsibility, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CRP 3899

  • 1 Credit S/U NoAud

  • 19317 PHIL 1902   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kudva, N

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 1910

This course provides an introduction to the science of the mind.  Everyone knows what it's like to think and perceive, but this subjective experience provides little insight into how minds emerge from ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  7250 PHIL 1910   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall G01
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Swallow, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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

  •  7810 PHIL 1911   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Swallow, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 1920

This course offers a survey of political theory in the West. We will examine some of the persistent dilemmas of politics and the attempts of several canonical political theorists to respond to them: Plato, ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 1615

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8823 PHIL 1920   LEC 001

    • MW Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Markell, P

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9288 PHIL 1920   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9289 PHIL 1920   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9290 PHIL 1920   DIS 203

    • R White Hall 110
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9291 PHIL 1920   DIS 204

    • F White Hall 104
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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

  •  9378 PHIL 2220   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9379 PHIL 2220   DIS 201

    • W Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9380 PHIL 2220   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9381 PHIL 2220   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 2300

This course will survey a number of famous paradoxes about the nature of time, identity, logic, science, belief, decision, and value. Some of these paradoxes have widely accepted answers, but many do not. ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9268 PHIL 2300   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9546 PHIL 2300   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9547 PHIL 2300   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 2310

Covers sentential languages, the truth-functional connectives, and their logic; first-order languages, the quantifiers "every" and "some," and their logic. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COGST 2310

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18697 PHIL 2310   LEC 001

    • MWF Klarman Hall KG42
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Korzukhin, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 18704 PHIL 2310   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 2410

This will be a lecture course on classic and contemporary work on central topics in ethics. The first third of the course will focus on metaethics: we will examine the meaning of moral claims and ask whether ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7942 PHIL 2410   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  7943 PHIL 2410   DIS 201

    • F Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8458 PHIL 2410   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8587 PHIL 2410   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 2415

This course is an introduction to the moral mind from philosophical and psychological perspectives. Many traditional philosophical problems about morality are being illuminated by current work in cognitive ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PSYCH 2415

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16759 PHIL 2415   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 16760 PHIL 2415   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 16761 PHIL 2415   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 18393 PHIL 2415   DIS 203

    • F Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Nichols, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 2530

What must (or could) God be like, and what reasons do we have for thinking that a being of that sort actually exists? What difference would (or could) the existence of God make to our lives? Religion & ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 2630

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16767 PHIL 2530   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 2945

This course examines the political theory of civil disobedience. Do citizens have obligations to obey unjust laws? What makes disobedience civil rather than criminal? How do acts of protest influence public ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3785GOVT 3785

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17273 PHIL 2945   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17274 PHIL 2945   DIS 201

    • W White Hall 110
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17275 PHIL 2945   DIS 202

    • F White Hall 110
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 19112 PHIL 2945   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 19113 PHIL 2945   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 2960

Politicians, scientists, and citizens worldwide face many environmental issues today, but they are neither simple nor straightforward. Moreover, there are many ways to understand how we have, do, and could ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2061STS 2061

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17640 PHIL 2960   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17641 PHIL 2960   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17642 PHIL 2960   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17643 PHIL 2960   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17644 PHIL 2960   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 3180

Philosophical writings from 1885 to 1915, by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, among others. Topics: metaphysics, semantics, epistemology, and value theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16772 PHIL 3180   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 3204

An examination of the doctrines of the Greek philosophers working in the three centuries after the death of Aristotle. Emphasis on Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Skepticism. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3661

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16280 PHIL 3204   LEC 001

    • MW Statler Hall 445
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Brittain, C

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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

  •  9272 PHIL 3310   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  9490 PHIL 3310   DIS 201

    • R Uris Hall G26
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 3475

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16881 PHIL 3475   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    This course addresses central debates in the philosophy of legal punishment. We will analyze the leading theories of punishment, including the familiar retributivist and deterrent alternatives, as well as lesser-known hybrid, self-defense, and rehabilitative accounts. We will ask whether each theory offers a general justification for establishing institutions of punishment, and whether each theory justifies specific acts of punishment. Other topics may include criminal responsibility, the legitimacy of collateral consequences (e.g., the denial of felons’ voting rights), alternatives to punishment, etc.

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

  •  6706 PHIL 3900   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6707 PHIL 3900   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Marmor, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6708 PHIL 3900   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6709 PHIL 3900   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kosch, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6710 PHIL 3900   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6712 PHIL 3900   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Pereboom, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6734 PHIL 3900   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Silins, N

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6931 PHIL 3900   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6932 PHIL 3900   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kamtekar, R

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6933 PHIL 3900   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Markovits, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7268 PHIL 3900   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Manne, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7269 PHIL 3900   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Manne, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Twelve Week. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17129 PHIL 3900   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Feb 3 - May 5, 2020
    • Nichols, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Twelve Week. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17130 PHIL 3900   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Feb 3 - May 5, 2020
    • Manne, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 4002

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  6934 PHIL 4002   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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

  •  6967 PHIL 4110   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 4200

Advanced discussion of topics in ancient philosophy. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 4662CLASS 7173PHIL 6200

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7962 PHIL 4200   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 4215

Advanced discussion of a topic in medieval philosophy. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 4215

  • 1-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Aquinas

  • 18405 PHIL 4215   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 4220

Advanced discussion of topics or authors in "modern" Western philosophy (circa the 17th and 18th centuries). view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 4210JWST 6210PHIL 6220

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Spinoza on the Mind

  • 16822 PHIL 4220   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Hubner, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    This course will focus on the work of the influential early modern Jewish philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, and in particular on his unorthodox views about the nature and scope of mindedness and thinking. Spinoza was a panpsychist: someone who holds that all things in nature -- even humble slugs -- think in some way and to some degree; he also held that all creaturely ideas (including human ideas) are just parts of a single, infinite, cosmic intellect; finally, he held that being thought about is a particular way of having existence, such that whenever I think about my cat, for example, this very cat comes to exist as a purely mental object, in addition to already existing as a furry, meowing, spatio-temporal creature. In addition to looking at these puzzling theses, we will also investigate how Spinoza understood intentionality (or thought's directedness at objects) more generally; how he understood what it takes to form an idea; how ideas represent or fail to represent things; the relation between creaturely minds and the divine intellect; and the relation between being and thought on the cosmic level. We will also spend time examining Spinoza's debt to his medieval Jewish philosophers, notably Maimonides and Gersonides, as well as Spinoza's influence on late 19th century and early 20th Idealists, who were drawn to Spinoza's philosophy by the central place it assigns to thought in nature.

PHIL 4611

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 6611

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Relation between Knowledge & Action

  • 18092 PHIL 4611   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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: COGST 6620PHIL 6620

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Moral Learning

  • 16851 PHIL 4620   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 4710

An investigation of varying topics in the philosophy of language including reference, meaning, the relationship between language and thought, communication, modality, logic and pragmatics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 4712LING 6634PHIL 6710

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9336 PHIL 4710   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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
  •  7662 PHIL 4720   LEC 001

    • TR Morrill Hall 107
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 4900

Majors in philosophy may choose to pursue honors in their senior year. Students undertake research leading to the writing of an honors essay by the end of the final semester. Prospective candidates should ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 19243 PHIL 4900   IND 601

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 19255 PHIL 4900   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Markovits, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 4901

Majors in philosophy may choose to pursue honors in their senior year. Students undertake research leading to the writing of an honors essay by the end of the final semester. Prospective candidates should ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6699 PHIL 4901   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6701 PHIL 4901   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6702 PHIL 4901   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kosch, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6703 PHIL 4901   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6705 PHIL 4901   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Pereboom, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6735 PHIL 4901   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Sethi, N

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6736 PHIL 4901   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Silins, N

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6737 PHIL 4901   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Sturgeon, N

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6738 PHIL 4901   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Marmor, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7214 PHIL 4901   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Manne, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7273 PHIL 4901   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kamtekar, R

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7274 PHIL 4901   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Manne, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7275 PHIL 4901   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8750 PHIL 4901   IND 621

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kocurek, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8760 PHIL 4901   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Atiq, E

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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

  •  6968 PHIL 6010   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 6020

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  6928 PHIL 6020   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 6200

Advanced discussion of topics in ancient philosophy. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 4662CLASS 7173PHIL 4200

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Platonism after Plato

  •  7963 PHIL 6200   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 6220

Advanced discussion of topics or authors in "modern" Western philosophy (circa the 17th and 18th centuries). view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 4210JWST 6210PHIL 4220

  • 4 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Spinoza on the Mind

  • 16946 PHIL 6220   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Hubner, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    This course will focus on the work of the influential early modern Jewish philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, and in particular on his unorthodox views about the nature and scope of mindedness and thinking. Spinoza was a panpsychist: someone who holds that all things in nature -- even humble slugs -- think in some way and to some degree; he also held that all creaturely ideas (including human ideas) are just parts of a single, infinite, cosmic intellect; finally, he held that being thought about is a particular way of having existence, such that whenever I think about my cat, for example, this very cat comes to exist as a purely mental object, in addition to already existing as a furry, meowing, spatio-temporal creature. In addition to looking at these puzzling theses, we will also investigate how Spinoza understood intentionality (or thought's directedness at objects) more generally; how he understood what it takes to form an idea; how ideas represent or fail to represent things; the relation between creaturely minds and the divine intellect; and the relation between being and thought on the cosmic level. We will also spend time examining Spinoza's debt to his medieval Jewish philosophers, notably Maimonides and Gersonides, as well as Spinoza's influence on late 19th century and early 20th Idealists, who were drawn to Spinoza's philosophy by the central place it assigns to thought in nature.

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: Themes from Kantian Ethics

  • 16837 PHIL 6410   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 6611

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 4611

  • 4 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Relation between Knowledge & Action

  • 16825 PHIL 6611   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Spring 2020: An advanced introduction to action theory, focusing on the relation between knowledge and action

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: COGST 6620PHIL 4620

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Moral Learning

  • 16854 PHIL 6620   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 6710

An investigation of varying topics in the philosophy of language including reference, meaning, the relationship between language and thought, communication, modality, logic and pragmatics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 4712LING 6634PHIL 4710

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9338 PHIL 6710   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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
  •  7664 PHIL 6720   LEC 001

    • TR Morrill Hall 107
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 6731

Uses the techniques introduced in Semantics I to analyze linguistic phenomena, including quantifier scope, ellipsis, and referential pronouns. Temporal and possible worlds semantics are introduced and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 6422

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8151 PHIL 6731   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall G22
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Mendia, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

PHIL 6740

Addresses current theoretical and empirical issues in semantics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 7711

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16829 PHIL 6740   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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

  •  6740 PHIL 7000   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Brennan, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6742 PHIL 7000   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Hodes, H

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6743 PHIL 7000   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kosch, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6744 PHIL 7000   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • MacDonald, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6848 PHIL 7000   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Pereboom, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6850 PHIL 7000   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Silins, N

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6852 PHIL 7000   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Marmor, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9569 PHIL 7000   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kocurek, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7287 PHIL 7000   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Manne, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7288 PHIL 7000   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7289 PHIL 7000   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Manne, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7290 PHIL 7000   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kamtekar, R

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7781 PHIL 7000   IND 621

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Markovits, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9570 PHIL 7000   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Atiq, E

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person