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DRST 003/004 Directed Studies: Philosophy (DS)
Fall: Michael Burton, Michael Della Rocca, Verity Harte, Kenneth Winkler
Spring: Keith De Rose, Adam Eitel, Paul Franks, Daniel Greco, Paul Grimstad, Zoltán Szabó
Fall Courses
PHIL 022 Philosophy of Masculinities, Robin Dembroff
PHIL 115 First-Order Logic, Alexander Meehan
PHIL 118 Buddhist Thought: The Foundations, Eric Green
PHIL 125 Intro to Ancient Philosophy, Brad Inwood
PHIL 178 Introduction to Political Philosophy, Thomas Pogge
PHIL 272 Philosophy of Mind, Daniel Greco
PHIL 281 Infinity, Zoltán Szabó
PHIL 284 The Will, Agency, and Free Choice, Robert Stern
PHIL 311 The End of Metaphysics, Nancy Levene
PHIL 361 Thought Experiments: Connecting Literature, Philosophy and the Natural Sciences, Paul Grimstad
PHIL 367 Renaissance Philosophy, Paul Franks
PHIL 414 Mind in Modern Philosophy, Kenneth Winkler and Bridger Ehli
PHIL 426 The Cognitive Science of Morality, Joshua Knobe
PHIL 434 Disagreement and Higher-Order Evidence, John Pittard
PHIL 435 Intersections of Architecture and Philosophy, André Patrão
PHIL 437 Philosophy of Mathematics, Michael Burton
PHIL 444 Social Ontology, Robin Dembroff
PHIL 458 Morality and Evolution, Stephen Darwall
PHIL 463 Varieties of Explanatory Relations, Lily Hu and Issa Kohler-Hausmann
PHIL 464 Justice, Taxes, and Global Financial Integrity, Thomas Pogge
PHIL 466 German Idealism and Religion, Paul Franks and Robert Stern
PHIL 469 The Morality of the Soul: From Arisotle to Heidegger, Martin Hagglund
Tutorial and Senior Essay Courses
PHIL 480 Tutorial (Either semester) Daniel Greco
A reading course supervised by a member of the department and satisfying the following conditions: (1) the work of the course must not be possible in an already existing course; (2) the course must involve a substantial amount of writing, i.e., a term essay or a series of short essays; (3) the student must meet with the instructor regularly, normally for at least an hour a week; (4) the proposed course of study must be approved by both the director of undergraduate studies and the instructor.
PHIL 490 (Fall) and PHIL 491 (Spring) The Senior Essay Daniel Greco
The essay, written under the supervision of a member of the department, should be a substantial paper; a suggested length is between 8,000 and 12,000 words for one-term projects, and between 12,500 and 15,000 words for two-term projects. Students completing a one-term project should enroll in either 490 in the fall or 491 in the spring. Students completing a two-term project should enroll in both 490 and 491. The deadline for senior essays completed in the fall is December 5; the deadline for both one- and two-term senior essays completed in the spring is April 21.
Spring Courses
PHIL 040 Ethics of Data Science, Lily Hu
PHIL 045 Puzzles in Philosophy and Logic, Michael Burton
PHIL 126 Introduction to Modern Philosophy, Michael Della Rocca
PHIL 130 Philosophy of Education, Jason Stanley
PHIL 175 Introduction to Ethics, Shelly Kagan
PHIL 203 Ancient Chinese Thought, Mick Hunter
PHIL 264 Al-Ghazali and Maimonides, Frank Griffel
PHIL 267 Mathematical Logic, Sun-Joo Shin
PHIL 290 Philosophical Environmental Ethics, Stephen Latham
PHIL 295 Al-Ghazali and Maimonides, Frand Griffel
PHIL 304 Choice Theory and its Critics, Daniel Greco and Larry Samuelson
PHIL 305 Philosophy for Psychologist, Joshua Knobe
PHIL 306 The Problem of Evil and the Book of Job, Yonatan Shemesh
PHIL 326 The Philosophy of Religion, John Pittard
PHIL 338 Happiness and Tragedy, David Charles
PHIL 383 Critical Perspectives on the Canon, Stephen Darwall and Moya Mapps
PHIL 385 Philosophies of Life, Nancy Levene
PHIL 402 Heidegger’s Being and Time, Martin Hagglund
PHIL 408 The Ethics of Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, Stephen Darwall
PHIL 419 Descartes, Michael Della Rocca
PHIL 423 Philosophy of Probability, Alexander Meehan
PHIL 425 Topics in Epistemology, Keith De Rose and Timothy Williamson
PHIL 427 Computability and Logic, Sun-Joo Shin
PHIL 432 Reproductive Ethics, Max DuBoff
PHIL 436 Medieval Metaphysics, Ben Koons
PHIL 445 Implicature and Pragmatic Theory, Laurence Horn
PHIL 478 Nonclassical Logics, Michael Burton
PHIL 455 Normative Ethics, Shelly Kagan
PHIL 457 Recent Work on Justice, Thomas Pogge
PHIL 487 Philosophy of the Ordinary and the Extraordinary, Paul Franks
PHIL 494 Topics in Kant, Thomas Pogge