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, .
Course outlines from previous years can be found in the archives:
Course numbers聽are linked to聽Undergraduate Calendar聽course information.
Course titles are linked to a Course Outline.
Course outlines will be available starting mid-August.
First Year
| Course number | Course title |
|---|---|
| First Year Seminar, Special Topics: “Science Fiction and Philosophy” (Fall) | |
| First Year Seminar, Special Topics: “Minds and Machines” (Fall) | |
| First Year Seminar, Special Topics: “What We Argue 杏吧原创: Uprooting Contemporary Debates Using the History of Philosophy” (Winter) | |
| First Year Seminar, Special Topics: “Philosophy of Music” (Winter) | |
| First Year Seminar: Looking at Philosophy (not offered) | |
| First Year Seminar: Contemporary Moral, Social, and Religious Issues (not offered) | |
| Introductory Philosophy (Fall) | |
| Introductory Philosophy (Winter) | |
| The Meaning of Life (Fall) | |
| The Meaning of Life (Winter) | |
| Mind, World and Knowledge (Fall) | |
| Mind, World and Knowledge (Winter) | |
| Introduction to Ethics and Social Issues (Fall) | |
| Introduction to Ethics and Social Issues (Winter) | |
| Great Philosophical Ideas, Part 1 (not offered) | |
| Great Philosophical Ideas, Part 2 (not offered) | |
| Philosophy of Love and Sex (Fall) |
Second Year
Third Year
| Course number | Course title |
|---|---|
| Topics in Ancient Philosophy (not offered) | |
| Early Greek Philosophy (not offered) | |
| 17th Century Philosophy (Winter) | |
| 18th Century Philosophy (not offered) | |
| 19th Century Philosophy (not offered) | |
| Topics in European Philosophy (Fall) | |
| Philosophical Traditions (Winter) | |
| The Roots of Analytic Philosophy (not offered) | |
| Epistemology (Winter) | |
| Metaphysics (not offered) | |
| Issues in the Philosophy of Science (not offered) | |
| Symbolic Logic (not offered) | |
| Contemporary Ethical Theory (not offered) | |
| Topics in History of Social and Political Philosophy (Fall) | |
| Topics in Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy (Fall) | |
| Philosophy, Ethics, and Public Affairs (not offered) | |
| Philosophy, Economics, and Public Policy (not offered) | |
| Environments, Technology and Values (not offered) | |
| Topics in Aesthetics (Fall) | |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science (not offered) | |
| Mind and Action (Winter) | |
| Pragmatics (Winter) | |
| Semantics (Winter) | |
| Philosophy of Language (not offered) | |
| Philosophy of Emotions (not offered) | |
| Independent Study |
Fourth Year
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| Course number | Course title |
|---|---|
| Seminar in Philosophy Before the Modern Period (not offered) | |
| Seminar in Philosophy Before the Modern Period (not offered) | |
| Seminar in Modern Philosophy: Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (Winter) | |
| Seminar in Modern Philosophy: Dreams and Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy (Fall) | |
| Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy (not offered) | |
| Lexical Semantics (Winter) | |
| Special Topic in Philosophy: Philosophy of Skill (Fall) | |
| Special Topic in Philosophy: (Winter) | |
| Seminar in Philosophy of Language or Linguistics: “Madagascar” and Madagascar (Winter) | |
| Seminar in Philosophy of Mind or Cognition: The Philosophical Psychology of Agency (Winter) | |
| Seminar in Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Science (not offered) | |
| Seminar in Ethical or Moral Philosophy: Realism, Anti-Realism and Non-Realism in Metaethics and Metaphilosophy (not offered) | |
| Seminar in Ethics or Moral Philosophy (not offered) | |
| Seminar in Social or Political Philosophy (not offered) | |
| Contemporary Formal Semantics (not offered) | |
| Contemporary Formal Semantics (not offered) | |
| Tutorial |
Summer 2022 Courses