Philosophy: Philosophy MA, PhD Courses

Not all courses are offered every year. Please consult the department's website, which lists the courses the department will offer this year as well as those offered by other departments that may be taken for philosophy credit.

Required Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL1111HPhD Proseminar
PHL2222HMA Proseminar I
PHL2223HMA Proseminar II
PHL3000HMA Professional Development Workshop

Concentration: Philosophy of Science

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2198HAdvanced Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

Reading Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL1000H
Reading Course
PHL1000YReading Course
PHL1001H
Reading Course
PHL1001YReading Course
PHL1500H
Reading Course
PHL1500YReading Course

History of Philosophy

Classical Greek and Roman Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2000H
Early Greek Philosophy
PHL2002H
Plato
PHL2003H
Aristotle
PHL2005H
Seminar in Plato
PHL2007H
Seminar in Aristotle
PHL2009H
Seminar in Greek Philosophy
PHL2010H
Late Greek Philosophy

East Asian Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2013HTopics in Chinese Philosophy
PHL2014HTopics in Chinese Moral Psychology
PHL2016H
Taoism: Philosophy and Religion

South Asian Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2018HSouth Asian Philosophy
PHL2019HTopics in South Asian Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
MST3301H
Themes in Medieval Philosophy
MST3309H
Birth of the Will: Augustine and Anselm
MST3311H
Topics in Medieval Metaphysics
MST3322H
William of Ockham
MST3327H
Free Will and Human Action in Medieval Philosophy
MST3346HMedieval Islamic Philosophy

Early Modern Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2051H
The Rationalists
PHL2055H
The Empiricists
PHL2057H
Seminar in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
PHL2063H
Kant's Ethics

Feminist Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2140H
Topics in Feminist Philosophy

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2070HTopics in Philosophy of Race
PHL2076HHegel
PHL2078H
Kierkegaard
PHL2079H
Marxist Philosophy
PHL2084H
Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy
PHL2085H
Husserl
PHL2088HHeidegger
PHL2089H
Seminar in Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
PHL2090H
Hermeneutics
PHL2091H
The Critical Theory of Society
PHL2092HPragmatism
PHL2093H
Frege
PHL2094H
Russell
PHL2095H
Wittgenstein
PHL2096H
Early Analytic Philosophy
PHL2097H
Later Analytic Philosophy
PHL2192H
Seminar in Analytic Philosophy
PHL2193H
Topics in Analytic Philosophy

History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

For MA students in the Philosophy of Science concentration.

Course CodeCourse Title
HPS2000HHistory of Mathematics
HPS2001HHistory of Physics
HPS2003HHistory of Biology
HPS2004HHistory of Medicine
HPS2008HHistory of Psychology
HPS2009HHistory and Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Problems of Philosophy

Metaphysics and Epistemology

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2101H
Seminar in Metaphysics
PHL2105H
Topics in Metaphysics
PHL2111H
Seminar in Epistemology
PHL2115H
Topics in Epistemology
PHL2117H
Formal Epistemology
PHL2119H
Philosophical Foundations of Multidisciplinary Studies
PHL2171H
Philosophy of Mind
PHL2172H
Seminar in Philosophy of Mind
PHL2175H
Philosophy of Perception

Logic and the Philosophy of Language

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2120H
Introductory Mathematical Logic
PHL2122H
Advanced Logic
PHL2124H
Seminar in Logic
PHL2125H
Many Valued and Modal Logics
PHL2126H
Philosophy of Logic
PHL2127H
Philosophy of Mathematics
PHL2130H
Topics in Informal Logic
PHL2137H
Philosophy of Action
PHL2190H
Philosophy of Language
PHL2191H
Seminar in the Philosophy of Language
PHL2197H
Foundations of Computation and Information

Value Theory

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2131H
Ethics
PHL2132H
Seminar in Ethics
PHL2135H
Metaethics
PHL2141H
Political Philosophy
PHL2142H
Seminar in Political Philosophy
PHL2143HSocial Philosophy
PHL2144H
Seminar in Social Philosophy
PHL2145H
Bioethics
PHL2146Y
Topics in Bioethics
PHL2148H
Philosophy of Law
JPL2149H
Legal Theory
PHL2151H
Aesthetics
PHL2152H
Philosophy and Teaching

Philosophy of Science

Course CodeCourse Title
JPH2194H
Topics in the History of the Philosophy of Science
PHL2195H
Philosophy of Biology
PHL2196H
Topics in the Philosophy of Science
PHL2198HAdvanced Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
PHL2199H
Seminar in the Philosophy of Science
PHL2200HPhilosophy of Physics

Miscellaneous

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL3101H
Intensive Special Course
PHL4900H
Research Seminar
PHL4901H0Revision Paper Requirement (Credit/No Credit)