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
Reading Course
PHL1000YReading Course
Reading Course
PHL1001YReading Course
Reading Course
PHL1500YReading Course

History of Philosophy

Classical Greek and Roman Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
Early Greek Philosophy
Plato
Aristotle
Seminar in Plato
Seminar in Aristotle
Seminar in Greek Philosophy
Late Greek Philosophy

East Asian Philosophy

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

South Asian Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2018HSouth Asian Philosophy
PHL2019HTopics in South Asian Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy

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

Early Modern Philosophy

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

Feminist Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
Topics in Feminist Philosophy

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Course CodeCourse Title
PHL2070HTopics in Philosophy of Race
PHL2076HHegel
Kierkegaard
Marxist Philosophy
Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy
Husserl
PHL2088HHeidegger
Seminar in Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
Hermeneutics
The Critical Theory of Society
Frege
Russell
Wittgenstein
Later Analytic Philosophy
Seminar in Analytic Philosophy
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
Seminar in Metaphysics
Topics in Metaphysics
Seminar in Epistemology
Topics in Epistemology
Formal Epistemology
Philosophical Foundations of Multidisciplinary Studies
Philosophy of Mind
Seminar in Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Perception

Logic and the Philosophy of Language

Course CodeCourse Title
Introductory Mathematical Logic
Advanced Logic
Seminar in Logic
Many Valued and Modal Logics
Philosophy of Logic
Philosophy of Mathematics
Topics in Informal Logic
Philosophy of Action
Philosophy of Language
Seminar in the Philosophy of Language
Foundations of Computation and Information

Value Theory

Course CodeCourse Title
Ethics
Seminar in Ethics
PHL2133HTopics in Ethics
Metaethics
Political Philosophy
Seminar in Political Philosophy
PHL2143HSocial Philosophy
Seminar in Social Philosophy
Bioethics
Topics in Bioethics
Philosophy of Law
Legal Theory
Aesthetics
Philosophy and Teaching

Philosophy of Science

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

Miscellaneous

Course CodeCourse Title
Intensive Special Course
Research Seminar
PHL4901HRevision Paper Requirement