Courses in Philosophy

 

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 631XText Seminar: Antiquity

3

PHI 632XText Seminar: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

3

PHI 633XText Seminar: The Later Middle Ages

3

PHI 634XText Seminar: Early Modernity

3

PHI 635XText Seminar: Later Modernity

3

PHI 636XText Seminar: Postmodernity

3

PHI 6V99Graduate 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 7095Philosophy Comprehensive Exam

0

PHI 7310Epistemology

3

PHI 7320Ethics

3

PHI 7330Philosophical Anthropology

3

PHI 7340Philosophy of God

3

PHI 7350Metaphysics

3

PHI 7377 - 7379Special Studies

3

PHI 7381Directed Readings

3

PHI 7678Thesis 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 8310Plato

3

PHI 8315Aristotle

3

PHI 8320Cicero and Augustine in Dialogue

3

PHI 8325Maimonides

3

PHI 8330Descartes's Thinking

3

PHI 8335Spinoza

3

PHI 8340Hegel’s Encyclopaedia: Logic, Nature, Spirit

3

PHI 8346Wittgenstein

3

PHI 8350Lonergan's Insight

3

PHI 8355Christianity and Postmodernism

3

PHI 8360The Notion of Being

3

PHI 8365Metaphysical Themes

3

PHI 8370Themes in Social and Political Philosophy

3

PHI 8380Philosophy of Imagination

3

Courses in Philosophy

PHI 5100Proseminar

1

PHI 5311Philosophy of Law

3

PHI 5312Philosophy of Religion

3

PHI 5321Philosophy of History

3

PHI 5326Philosophy of Education

3

PHI 5341Asian Thought

3

PHI 5361Scholastic Tradition

3

PHI 5371Phenomenological Tradition

3

PHI 5381 - 5389Senior / Graduate Elective

3

PHI 5381 - 5389Senior / Graduate Elective

3