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600 and 700-Level Courses
PHIL 606. Seminar: Philosophy of Mind.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to specific topics in the philosophy of mind.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 506.
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PHIL 607. Pro-Seminar 1.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A series of seminars on selected topics designed for professional training to graduate students. Topics will be selected from the general area of Value Theory.
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PHIL 609. Seminar: Cognitive Science.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced discussion of a topic of philosophical interest arising from contemporary empirical work in cognitive science.
- Prerequisite(s): PHIL 306, PHIL 415 or written permission of the instructor
- Prerequisite(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 507.
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PHIL 610. Seminar on Advanced Logic 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Seminar on a particular topic in advanced logic. Topic varies by year.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor .
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 510.
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PHIL 611. Seminar: Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Seminar on a particular topic in philosophy of logic and mathematics.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 511.
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PHIL 611 - Fall 2024
PHIL 615. Seminar: Philosophy of Language.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a topic in the philosophy of language.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 515.
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PHIL 619. Seminar: Epistemology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a topic in the theory of knowledge.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 519.
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PHIL 619 - Fall 2024
PHIL 621. Seminar: Metaphysics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a topic in metaphysics.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 521.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
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PHIL 624. Seminar: History and Philosophy of Science.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a topic on the history and philosophy of science.
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PHIL 627. Seminar: Critical Philosophy of Race.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course examining a question, theme, or thinker in the critical philosophy of race.
- Permission of the instructor.
- Topic varies by year depending on the instructor. Approaches range from the historical to the contemporary, from the thematic to a focus on the works of particular thinkers.
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PHIL 634. Seminar: Ethics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Seminar on a particular topic in ethics. Topic varies by year.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 534.
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PHIL 635. Seminar: History of Ethics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a topic on the history of ethics.
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PHIL 636. Seminar: Aesthetics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a specific topic in the area of aesthetics and/or the philosophy of art.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 536.
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PHIL 641. Seminar: Philosophy of Science.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An advanced course devoted to a topic in the philosophy of science.
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHIL 541.
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PHIL 642. Seminar: Feminist Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An advanced course devoted to a specific topic in feminist theory: e.g., a major figure; or theme, such as sex/gender, embodiment, race, subjectivity, agency, representation, politics, nature/culture, discourse and power; or a feminist approach to the history of philosophy, ethics, social/political philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of science, phenomenology, or metaphysics.
- Prerequisite(s): Any 400-level, 3-credit course in political philosophy, or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 542.
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PHIL 644. Political Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Seminar on a particular topic in political theory.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 544.
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PHIL 648. Seminar: Philosophy of Law.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a particular topic in the philosophy of law. Subject varies from year to year.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 548.
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PHIL 651. Seminar: Ancient Philosophy 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course on a philosopher or philosophical issue articulated in antiquity.
- Prerequisite(s): at least one course in ancient philosophy and the specific requirements of individual instructors.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 551.
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PHIL 656. Medieval Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a particular topic in medieval philosophy. Subject varies from year to year.
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PHIL 660. Seminar: 17th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course on a seventeenth-century philosopher or philosophical issue.
- Prerequisite(s): PHIL 360 or written permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 560.
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PHIL 661. Seminar: 18th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course on an eighteenth-century philosopher or philosophical issue.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 561.
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PHIL 667. Seminar: 19th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course on 19th-century philosophy or philosophical issue.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 567.
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PHIL 670. Seminar: Contemporary Analytic Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An advanced course on some major analytic philosopher, or some issue of central importance in the analytic tradition.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 570.
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PHIL 675. Seminar: Contemporary European Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
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Description
An advanced course on contemporary European philosophy or some important issue in the Continental tradition.
- Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 575.
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PHIL 675 - Fall 2024
PHIL 680. Seminar: Problems of Philosophy 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Seminar on a particular topic in philosophy. Topic varies by year.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 580.
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PHIL 682. Pro-Seminar 3.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A series of seminars on selected topics designed to provide professional training to graduate students. Topics will be selected from the general area of Metaphysics/Epistemology.
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PHIL 685. Fundamentals of Logic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A course in intermediate logic for graduate students in Philosophy, covering such topics as axiomatic systems, formal semantics, consistency, completeness, the limitative results, intuitionistic logic, formal theories of truth, aspects of the development of logic.
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PHIL 689. Seminar: Special Topics in Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Psychoanalysis: a critical examination. Depending on the interests of the class, areas covered would include: psychoanalytic epistemology, psychoanalysis and the pre-socratics, psychoanalysis and tragedy, reasons versus causes in psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, psychoanalytic truth, self-deception, irrationality, paradox, creativity, internal object world and its relation to external objects.
- Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 590.
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PHIL 690. Candidacy Paper.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Preparation and submission of candidacy research paper.
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PHIL 703. Teaching Reflection and Practice.
Credits: 1
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Course design, development, delivery, and evaluation of a course that the student has been assigned to teach. Aspects of course design and in-class student
evaluations will be provided by a Faculty mentor.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 702
- Restriction: Graduate students in philosophy
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PHIL 705. Guided Research in Ethics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in ethics.
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PHIL 706. Guided Research in Ethics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in ethics.
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PHIL 711. Guided Research in Logic 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in logic
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PHIL 720. Guided Research: Philosophy of Science 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in the philosophy of science.
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PHIL 721. Guided Research: Philosophy of Science 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in the philosophy of science.
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PHIL 731. Guided Research: Philosophy of Religion 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in the philosophy of religion.
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PHIL 741. Guided Research: Ancient Philosophy 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in ancient philosophy.
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PHIL 760. Guided Research: History of Philosophy 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in the history of philosophy.
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PHIL 761. Guided Research: History of Philosophy 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in the histoory of philosophy.
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PHIL 770. Guided Research: Philosophy of Politics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in the philosophy of politics.
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PHIL 771. Guided Research: Philosophy of Politics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in the philosophy of politics.
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PHIL 780. Guided Research: Epistemology/Metaphysics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in epistemology/metaphysics.
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PHIL 781. Guided Research: Epistemology/Metaphysics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
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Description
Guided research on a theme and/or problem in epistemology/metaphysics.
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