The following directory lists the graduate courses which the University expects to offer, although the University in no way guarantees that all such courses will be offered in any given academic year, and reserves the right to alter the list if conditions warrant. Click on the links below for a list of courses in that subject area. You may then click “View Classes” to see scheduled classes for individual courses.
5300. Independent Study for Graduate Students
1.00 - 6.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 30 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
5301. Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
An introduction to contemporary philosophers such as Russell, Carnap, Ayer, Quine, Putnam, and Kripke.
View Classes »5302. Introduction to Moral Philosophy
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to Philosophy Graduate students only, others with permission of instructor.
Grading Basis: Graded
Introduction to ethical theory. Readings in historical and contemporary moral philosophy.
View Classes »5305. Seminar in Aesthetics
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
A consideration of some of the basic problems in aesthetics.
View Classes »5307. Logic
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
5312. Seminar in the Philosophy of Science
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
A discussion of selected current, methodological issues in the philosophy of science. Topics may include scientific realism versus nonrealism; theories of scientific explanation; the nature of scientific revolutions; theories of the lawfulness of nature; and feminist theories of science.
View Classes »5314. Action Theory
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
Examination and analysis of the concept of "action" and related concepts such as "agent" and "intention."
View Classes »5315. Seminar in Moral Philosophy
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
A discussion and analysis of significant problems in ethical theory.
View Classes »5316. Seminar in the Philosophy of Social Science
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
5320. Seminar in the History of Philosophy
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
5325. Topics in Africana Philosophy
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy and to others with permission.
Grading Basis: Graded
Philosophical problems from across African American philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, and African philosophy, examined using approaches from Africana analytical, dialectical, existential, feminist, phenomenological, and pragmatist thought. May include a historical focus on ideas from ancient African philosophy. May be repeated for up to nine credits with change in content.
View Classes »5327. Seminar on Kant
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
5330. Seminar on Theory of Knowledge
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
Problems in the foundations and nature of knowledge. A critical study of recent treatments of the problem of mind. Issues such as the mind-body problem, our knowledge of the existence of other minds, the existence of private languages, will be dealt with in detail.
View Classes »5331. Seminar in Philosophy of Mind
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
A critical study of recent treatments of the problem of mind. Issues such as the mind-body problem, our knowledge of the existence of other minds, the existence of private languages, will be dealt with in detail.
View Classes »5340. Seminar on Metaphysics
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
5342. Seminar in Philosophy of Language
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
5344. Seminar in Philosophical Logic
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to Philosophy Graduate students only, others with permission of instructor.
Grading Basis: Graded
Topics in the philosophies of logic and mathematics. May include completeness results for non-classical logics, higher-order languages and logics, diagonalization, limitative theorems (Tarski, Godel), paradoxes, and formal theories of truth.
View Classes »5350. Seminar in Recent Social and Political Philosophy
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
5360. Seminar in Recent Continental Analytic Philosophy
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
Critical reading of selected texts of recent European philosophers such as Derrida, Irigaray, Kristeva, Heidegger, and Foucault; along with related work of analytic philosophers such as Davidson, Quine, Rorty, and Kripke.
View Classes »5380. Philosophical Issues of Race
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
An examination of philosophical problems, including those in metaphysics and epistemology to those in value theory ranging from aesthetics to ethics and political philosophy in the study of race. Topics include questions of how race is studied in philosophical anthropology, philosophy of freedom, and metacritical questions of the impact of race in how knowledge is produced or understood (such as epistemology).
View Classes »5397. Seminar
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 18 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy, others with consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
5484. Proposal, Prospectus, and Dissertation Writing Seminar
2.00 - 3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Philosophy; others by instructor consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
Philosophy students will write and circulate drafts and get feedback on their proposal, prospectus, or dissertation, and practice the presentation of their work. Students working on philosophical theory outside the department are also welcome.
View Classes »5800. Race in the Formation of the Human Sciences
Also offered as: ANTH 5800, LLAS 5800, POLS 5800
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Not open for credit to students who have passed PHIL 5380.
Grading Basis: Graded
Exploration of how race and the human sciences emerged out of the theological, epistemological, and political upheavals that resulted in the Euromodern world.
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