Courses in Philosophy

PHI 5100	Proseminar	1
PHI 5311	Philosophy of Law	3
PHI 5321	Philosophy of History	3
PHI 5332	Philosophy of Technology	3
PHI 5371	Phenomenological Tradition	3
PHI 5381 - 5389	Senior / Graduate Elective	3
PHI 5381 - 5389	Senior / Graduate Elective	3

Historical Sequence

631X–636X are offered sequentially in a three-year cycle in order to give students the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the entire history of Western philosophy.

PHI 631X	Text Seminar: Antiquity	3
PHI 632X	Text Seminar: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages	3
PHI 633X	Text Seminar: The Later Middle Ages	3
PHI 634X	Text Seminar: Early Modernity	3
PHI 635X	Text Seminar: Later Modernity	3
PHI 636X	Text Seminar: Postmodernity	3
6V99 6V99	Graduate Reading	0

Topical Courses

Topical courses are devoted to reflection in some of the fundamental areas of philosophical inquiry. Building on readings from the tradition of Western philosophy, they are aimed not merely at textual exegesis, but at understanding the “things themselves.”

PHI 7095	Philosophy Comprehensive Exam	0
PHI 7310	Epistemology	3
PHI 7320	Ethics	3
PHI 7330	Philosophical Anthropology	3
PHI 7340	Philosophy of God	3
PHI 7350	Metaphysics	3
PHI 7360	The Nature of Tradition	3
PHI 7377 - 7379	Special Studies	3
PHI 7381	Directed Readings	3
PHI 7678	Thesis Research	6

Research Seminars

The Research Seminars are advanced courses usually restricted to doctoral students. They reflect current faculty research, both on particular thinkers and on specialized topics.

PHI 8310	Plato	3
PHI 8315	Aristotle	3
PHI 8320	Cicero and Augustine in Dialogue	3
PHI 8325	Maimonides	3
PHI 8330	Descartes's Thinking	3
PHI 8335	Spinoza	3
PHI 8340	Hegel’s Encyclopaedia: Logic, Nature, Spirit	3
PHI 8346	Wittgenstein	3
PHI 8350	Lonergan's Insight	3
PHI 8355	Christianity and Postmodernism	3
PHI 8360	The Notion of Being	3
PHI 8365	Metaphysical Themes	3
PHI 8370	Themes in Social and Political Philosophy	3
PHI 8380	Philosophy of Imagination	3