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Classes for Graduate Students


300-level Classes

300-level classes are open to graduate students and to undergraduates who satisfy the prerequesites specified by the instructor. These classes typically have at least one class in philosophy as a prerequisite.

Classes at the 300-level that have been offered in recent years include:

309 - Plato
310 - Aristotle
311 - Modern Rationalism
312 - Modern Empiricism
314 - Topics in Ancient Philosophy
315 - Special Topics in the History of Philosophy
316 - Kant
317 - Hegel
318 - Twentieth-Century Philosophy
319 - Philosophy of Marx
331 - Introduction to Formal Logic
332 - Semantics
341 - Ethical Theory
342 - Law, Society, and Morality
343 - Political Obligation and Civil Disobedience
344 - History of Ethics: Ancient and Medieval
345 - History of Ethics: Modern
346 - Modern Political Theory
361 - Metaphysics and Epistemology
363 - Philosophy of Religion
364 - Metaphysics
368 - Global Climate and Global Justice
369 - Limiting War: The Morality of Modern State Violence
381 - Philosophy of Science
382 - Philosophy of Psychology
383 - Philosophy of Choice and Decision
384 - Philosophy of Physics
387 - Philosophy of Mathematics
388 - Social Theory
389 - Philosophy of Science: Evidence and Explanation

400-level Classes

400-level classes, sometimes offered as seminars, are open to graduate students and to undergraduate philosophy majors.

Classes at the 400-level that have been offered in recent years include:

409 - German Philosophical Texts
410 - Medieval Latin Philosophical Texts
411 - Greek Philosophical Texts
412 - Medieval Philosophy
413 - Topics in Ancient Philosophy
414 - German Philosophy After Kant
415 - Special Topics in the History of Philosophy
416 - Modern Philosophy
431 - Deductive Logic
436 - Intensional Logic
437 - Problems in the Philosophy of Language
441 - Contemporary Ethical Theory
442 - Ethics and the Philosophy of Mind
443 - Topics in Aesthetics
444 - Contemporary Legal Theory
446 - Topics in Social and Political Philosophy
461 - Metaphysics
462 - Theory of Knowledge
481 - Problems in the Philosophy of Science
483 - Philosophy of Choice and Decision

600-level Classes

600-level classes are graduate-level seminars in philosophy. They are intended for graduate students in the philosophy department, but other students may be admitted with the permission of the instructor.

Classes at the 600-level that have been offered in recent years include:

611 - Ancient Philosophy
612 - Medieval Philosophy
613 - Modern Philosophers
619 - History of Philosophy
632 - Semantics
633 - Philosophy of Language
641 - Ethics and Value Theory
661 - Theory of Knowledge
662 - Philosophy of Mind
663 - Philosophy of Religion
664-665 - Metaphysics
681 - Philosophy of Science
682 - Philosophy of Social Science
773-774 - Proseminar in Cognitive Studies

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