Fall 2014 - Winter 2015

Summer 2015

PHIL 210. Introduction to Deductive Logic 1.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description

An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318
  • Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318

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PHIL 237. Contemporary Moral Issues.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description

An introductory discussion of central ethical questions (the value of persons, or the relationship of rights and utilities, for example) through the investigation of currently disputed social and political issues. Specific issues to be discussed may include pornography and censorship, affirmative action, civil disobedience, punishment, abortion, and euthanasia.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 397. Tutorial 01.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
  • Restriction: Open to second year Full Honours students in Philosophy and to other students, with consent of the Department

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

ITAL 307. Topics in Italian Culture.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Selected topics in Italian culture (topics may vary and may concentrate on one or more of the following areas: geography, history, music, art history, political science, and/or literature).
  • Note: Sections 002, 003 and 004 will be given in Florence, Italy, as part of 黑料不打烊's Summer courses in Italy program. Application mandatory prior to registration (Deadline: April 06, 2007). See for application forms
  • Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2 or ITAL 216, or equivalent
  • Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2 or ITAL 216, or equivalent
  • Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2 or ITAL 216, or equivalent
  • Since this course is being taught abroad, the Victoria Day statutory holiday will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, students are expected to attend their lecture on Monday, May 19, 2014.

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Fall 2014

PHIL 200. Introduction to Philosophy 1.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A course treating some of the central problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem, freedom, scepticism and certainty, fate, time, and the existence of God.
  • Philosophy students may use either PHIL 200 or PHIL 201 towards their program requirements, but not both. Students may, however, take both for credit (using the second as an elective), as the content in PHIL 201 does not overlap with PHIL 200
  • Philosophy students may use either PHIL 200 or PHIL 201 towards their program requirements, but not both. Students may, however, take both for credit (using the second as an elective), as the content in PHIL 201 does not overlap with PHIL 200

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_200_fall_2014_updated.pdf

PHIL 210. Introduction to Deductive Logic 1.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description

An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318
  • Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_210_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 230. Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A survey of a number of historically important and influential theories. Philosophers to be discussed may include Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, and Moore.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_230_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 240. Political Philosophy 1.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to contemporary philosophy of politics by concentrating on a number of contested concepts, such as freedom, justice and equality, in contemporary political philosophy and practice.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_240_fall_2014_updated.pdf

PHIL 242. Introduction to Feminist Theory.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians.
  • Note: Since this course is being taught abroad, the Victoria Day statutory holiday will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, students are expected to attend their lecture on Monday, May 19, 2014.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_242_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 306. Philosophy of Mind.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A survey of major positions of the mind-body problem, focusing on such questions as: Do we have minds and bodies? Can minds affect bodies? Is mind identical to body? If so, in what sense "identical"? Can physical bodies be conscious.

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phil_306_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 311. Philosophy of Mathematics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course provides an historically informed introduction to philosophy of mathematics. It gives the student an overview of prominent issues and arguments, to enable her to follow and discuss contemporary research in philosophy of mathematics.
  • Prerequisite: PHIL 210

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phil_311_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 336. Aesthetics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to issues central to aesthetic theory; the nature of aesthetic judgment, perception of the aesthetic object, the nature of the art object.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_336_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 343. Biomedical Ethics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An investigation of ethical issues as they arise in the practice of medicine (informed consent, e.g.) or in the application of medical technology (in vitro fertilization, euthanasia, e.g.)

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_343_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 348. Philosophy of Law 1.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A discussion of the nature of justice and law, and of the relationship between them.
  • Restriction: This course is intended for students with a non-professional interest in law, as well as for those considering law as a profession
  • Restriction: This course is intended for students with a non-professional interest in law, as well as for those considering law as a profession

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_348_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 349. Environmental Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to environmental ethics; potentially also such related fields as philosophy of ecology, environmental aesthetics, and/or other philosophical topics demonstrably relevant to environmental issues.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_349_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 354. Plato.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of some of the philosophical problems (those in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, e.g.) found in a selection of Plato's dialogues.

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PHIL 355. Aristotle.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of selected works by Aristotle. The course considers issues in moral philosophy as well as those found in the logical treatises, the Physics and Metaphysics, and in the philosophy of mind.

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phil_355_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 360. 17th Century Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of the work of such seventeenth-century philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Gassendi, Malebranche, Leibniz, and the Cambridge Platonists.

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phil_360_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 366. 18th and Early 19th Century German Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of the works of such philosophers as Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, Schelling, and Hegel.
  • Prerequisite: PHIL 360 or PHIL 361 is recommended

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phil_366_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 367. 19th Century Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of the works of such 19th century philosophers as Mach, Helmholtz, Dedekind, Frege, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Mill and Bradley.
  • Prerequisite: A previous course in philosophy is recommended

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phil_367_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 375. Existentialism.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description

This course will examine the nature of existentialist thought as represented in various philosophical and literary texts. Particular themes to be examined include freedom, alienation, responsibility and choice, and the nature of self.
  • Prerequisite: one course in philosophy
  • Prerequisite: one course in philosophy

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phil_375_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 397. Tutorial 01.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
  • Restriction: Open to second year Full Honours students in Philosophy and to other students, with consent of the Department

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 398. Tutorial 02.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
  • Restriction: Open to second year Full Honours students in Philosophy and to other students, with consent of the Department

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Course information not available.

phil_410_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 434. Metaethics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A study of the status of sentences containing moral terms, judgements about moral claims, and the nature of moral facts.
  • Prerequisite: PHIL 334 or written permission of the instructor

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phil_434_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 442. Topics in Feminist Theory.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced discussion of topical and central themes in feminist theory.
  • Prerequisite: PHIL 242 and one intermediate course in philosophy

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_442_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 452. Later Greek Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of some of the major post-Aristotelian schools of philosophy. Texts from the Peripatetic, Stoic, Epicurean, Sceptical, Platonic, and medical traditions may be considered. Problems in logic, ethics, physics, epistemology, and metaphysics will be addressed.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 351
  • Prerequisite: PHIL 354 or PHIL 355

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phil_452_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 497. Tutorial 04.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 498. Tutorial 05.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Open to third year Joint Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 499D1. Tutorial 06.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
  • Students must register for both PHIL 499D1 and PHIL 499D2.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both PHIL 499D1 and PHIL 499D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
  • PHIL 499D1 and PHIL 499D2 together are equivalent to PHIL 499

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 499N2. Tutorial 06.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See for course description.
  • Prerequisite: PHIL 499N1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both PHIL 499N1 and PHIL 499N2 are successfully completed in a twelve month period
  • PHIL 499N1 and PHIL 499N2 together are equivalent to PHIL 499

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PHIL 607. Pro-Seminar 1.

Credits: 6
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A series of seminars on selected topics designed for professional training to graduate students. Topics will be selected from the general area of Value Theory.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 619. Seminar: Epistemology.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An advanced course devoted to a topic in the theory of knowledge.
  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 519.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_619_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 634. Seminar: Ethics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Seminar on a particular topic in ethics. Topic varies by year.
  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 534.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_634_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 661. Seminar: 18th Century Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An advanced course on an eighteenth-century philosopher or philosophical issue.
  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 561.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

phil_661_fall_2014.pdf

PHIL 675. Seminar: Contemporary European Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An advanced course on contemporary European philosophy or some important issue in the Continental tradition.
  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 575.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 682. Pro-Seminar 3.

Credits: 6
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A series of seminars on selected topics designed to provide professional training to graduate students. Topics will be selected from the general area of Metaphysics/Epistemology.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 690. Candidacy Paper.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Preparation and submission of candidacy research paper.

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Winter 2015

PHIL 201. Introduction to Philosophy 2.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to some of the major problems of philosophy. This course does not duplicate .
  • Philosophy students may use either PHIL 200 or PHIL 201 towards their program requirements, but not both. Students may, however, take both for credit (using the second as an elective), as the content in PHIL 201 does not overlap with PHIL 200

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

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PHIL 221. Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science 2.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A survey of the development of modern science since the Eighteenth Century.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 221 History and Philosophy of Science Winter 2015 Course Outline Instructor: Ian Gold

PHIL 237. Contemporary Moral Issues.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description

An introductory discussion of central ethical questions (the value of persons, or the relationship of rights and utilities, for example) through the investigation of currently disputed social and political issues. Specific issues to be discussed may include pornography and censorship, affirmative action, civil disobedience, punishment, abortion, and euthanasia.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

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PHIL 301. Philosophical Fundamentals.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An intensive study of basic philosophical skills; reading, writing, analysis, and argumentation.
  • Prerequisites: two previous courses in philosophy, one of which must be PHIL 210 or written consent of the Department
  • Restriction: Open only to and required of Philosophy Honours and Joint Honours students

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 301 Philosophical Fundamentals Winter 2015 Course Outline听Instructor: Marguerite Deslauriers

PHIL 310. Intermediate Logic.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A second course in Logic. NB. The course will be technical in nature, and some mathematical aptitude is essential. The emphasis is on the expressive properties of standard logical systems, including implications for the philosophy of mathematics. We will study the Completeness of First-Order Logic, then the 'limitative' theorems of Tarski and G枚del.
  • Prerequisite: PHIL 210 or equivalent

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PHIL 310 Intermediate Logic Winter 2015 Course Outline Instructor: Richard Zach

Course information not available.

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PHIL 334. Ethical Theory.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A course focusing on central questions in ethical theory such as the nature of the good and the right and the factors which determine moral rightness and wrongness.
  • Prerequisite: one of PHIL 230, PHIL 237, PHIL 242, PHIL 343, or written permission of the instructor

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 334 Ethical Theory Winter 2015 Course Outline听 Instructor:听 Sarah Stroud

PHIL 341. Philosophy of Science 1.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A discussion of philosophical problems as they arise in the context of scientific practice and enquiry. Such issues as the philosophical presuppositions of the physical and social sciences, the nature of scientific method and its epistemological implications will be addressed.

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PHIL 344. Medieval and Renaissance Political Theory.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A study of Medieval and Renaissance political theory.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 345. Greek Political Theory.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of the ethical and political theories of ancient Greece, especially those of Plato and Aristotle.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 333

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 345 Greek Political Theory Winter 2015 Course Outline Instructor: Marguerite Deslauriers

PHIL 353. The Presocratic Philosophers.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of the surviving fragments of the presocratic philosophers and schools of philosophy, as well as later reports of their views.

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PHIL 361. 18th Century Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A survey of eighteenth century philosophy, especially British philosophy. Attention is given to fundamental metaphysical, epistemological, and moral issues as reflected in the work of such philosophers as Locke, Shaftesbury, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Butler, Hume and Reid.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 397. Tutorial 01.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
  • Restriction: Open to second year Full Honours students in Philosophy and to other students, with consent of the Department

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 398. Tutorial 02.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
  • Restriction: Open to second year Full Honours students in Philosophy and to other students, with consent of the Department

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 415. Philosophy of Language.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of central notions in the philosophy of language (reference, meaning, and truth, e.g.), the puzzles these notions give rise to, and the relevance of these notions to such questions as: What is language? How is communication possible? What is understanding? Is language rule-governed.
  • Prerequisites: PHIL 210 or equivalent and one intermediate course in philosophy

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 415 Philosophy of Language Winter 2015 Course Outline Instructor:听 Oran Magall

PHIL 436. Aesthetics 2.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An advanced discussion of issues in aesthetics.
  • Prerequisite: PHIL 336 or written permission of the instructor

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 436 Issues in the Philosophy of the Visual Arts Winter 2015 Course Outline Instructor: David Davies

PHIL 445. 19th Century Political Theory.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of various strands of political theory since Rousseau, concentrating on such themes as the understanding of modernity and theories of liberal society.
  • Prerequisite: at least one course in political philosophy
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 434

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 470. Topics in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An advanced discussion of major themes in the analytic tradition.
  • Prerequisite: PHIL 370, PHIL 415 or written permission of instructor

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 470 Philosophy of Cognitive Science Winter 2015 Course Outline Instructor: Noah Moss Brender

PHIL 474. Phenomenology.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A study of phenomenology from a historical and thematic perspective. The course will typically involve the study of central thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty, with an examination of the nature and development of the phenomenological movement.
  • Prerequisite: one intermediate course in philosophy

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 497. Tutorial 04.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 498. Tutorial 05.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Open to third year Joint Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 499D2. Tutorial 06.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See for course description.
  • Prerequisite: PHIL 499D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both PHIL 499D1 and PHIL 499D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
  • PHIL 499D1 and PHIL 499D2 together are equivalent to PHIL 499

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

PHIL 499N1. Tutorial 06.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
  • Students must also register for PHIL 499N2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both PHIL 499N1 and PHIL 499N2 are successfully completed in a twelve month period
  • PHIL 499N1 and PHIL 499N2 together are equivalent to PHIL 499

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PHIL 580 Seminar of Bergson's Creative Evolution Course Outline Instructor: Alia Al-Saji

PHIL 611. Seminar: Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Seminar on a particular topic in philosophy of logic and mathematics.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 511.

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PHIL 611 Formalism, Empiricism, and Frege Winter 2015 Course Outline Instructor: Dirk Schlimm

PHIL 636. Seminar: Aesthetics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An advanced course devoted to a specific topic in the area of aesthetics and/or the philosophy of art.
  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 536.

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PHIL 636 Seminar Aesthetics Winter 2015 Course Outline Instructor: Eric Lewis

PHIL 644. Political Theory.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Seminar on a particular topic in political theory.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 544.

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PHIL 644 Political Theory Winter 2015 Course Outline Instructor:Hasana Sharp

PHIL 648. Seminar: Philosophy of Law.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An advanced course devoted to a particular topic in the philosophy of law. Subject varies from year to year.
  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 548.

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PHIL 648 Philosophy of Law Winter 2015 Course Outline Instructor: Natalie Stoljar

PHIL 667. Seminar: 19th Century Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An advanced course on 19th-century philosophy or philosophical issue.
  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 567.

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PHIL 667 Seminar in 19th Century Philosophy Winter 2015 Course Outline. Instructor: George Di Giovanni

PHIL 675. Seminar: Contemporary European Philosophy.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An advanced course on contemporary European philosophy or some important issue in the Continental tradition.
  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 575.

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PHIL 685. Fundamentals of Logic.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A course in intermediate logic for graduate students in Philosophy, covering such topics as axiomatic systems, formal semantics, consistency, completeness, the limitative results, intuitionistic logic, formal theories of truth, aspects of the development of logic.

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PHIL 690. Candidacy Paper.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Preparation and submission of candidacy research paper.

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