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= Special Topic | = Seminar | = Selected Offered during current academic year.
Description
This course investigates non-European ways of thinking "philosophically." Students will study African oral traditions, Central-Asian, Chinese, Japanese, and Indigenous traditions by looking at their approach to fundamental questions: what is the human being? What is nature and what is our relation to it? What is knowledge and what is happiness?
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
A study of selected works by great philosophers from Socrates to the present. Stress will be laid on the systematic unity of the thought of individual philosophers, and on the influence their ideas had on thier followers and on the thought of the present day.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 1300E.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
An introduction to the key social, political, and legal structures and ideas that shape our contemporary culture and worlds. Students explore complex, often-hidden social and political concepts and organizational practices that prescribe modes of behaviour, human interactions, and material modes of production.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
This course develops student's ability to approach disputed questions by seeing them from both sides, so that they reach their own view only after respecting a broad range of argument. Six questions will be considered, including human (over)population, the public funding of art, and the limits of religious freedom.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
How do we find happiness in life? Is it through the fulfillment of desire, be it for pleasure, wealth, fame, companionship, knowledge, or union with God? Perhaps, paradoxically, it is by abandoning desire altogether and leading a simple life. This course will explore how philosophy has responded to these issues.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
An introductory course into great philosophers. We will study and debate conceptions of philosophy as remedy for maladies of the soul, like ignorance and passions, in ancient times or particular attitudes and theories, like skepticism and utilitarianism, in modern times. How are those concepts useful for us today?
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
The Philosophy unit of the King's Foundations in The New Liberal Arts is an interdisciplinary historical survey of some of the most important philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Marx, Nietzsche, Derrida) and artists (da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Dali) that have shaped the course of Western thought and our contemporary world.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Must be registered in the King's Foundations in The New Liberal Arts or the former Foundations in the Humanities.
Co-requisites
English 1901E and History 1901E.
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
There may be additional costs associated with field trips.
Description
Thinking well is an art that begins with self-awareness, is guided by learning criteria for reasonableness of claims and decisions, and improves with practice. This course offers students an opportunity to enhance these lifelong skills and to develop as responsible learners and communicators
Antirequisites
Philosophy 1230A/B, Philosophy 1900E
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
Ethical analysis of issues arising in contemporary business life. Sample topics: ethical codes in business; fair and unfair competition, advertising and consumer needs and wants; responsibilities to investors, employees and society; conflicts of interest and obligation; business and the regulatory environment.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
The increasing globalization of business activity poses ethical problems arising from the conflicting ethical norms of different cultures. This course uses specific cases to consider a variety of such ethical challenges in pursuit of a critical understanding of ethical corporate decision-making in a global context.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
A study of some main problems in Legal Philosophy. Emphasis is given to actual law, e.g. criminal law and contracts, as a background to questions of law's nature. Specimen topics: police powers in Canada, contractual obligation, insanity defence, judicial reasoning and discretion, civil liberties, legal responsibility, natural law and legal positivism.
Antirequisites
MIT 2020F/G
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
2
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
An introduction to 19th and 20th century existentialism through a reading of philosophy and literature, with an emphasis on the concrete existence of the individual searching for a meaning to his or her life.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
A general historical survey of ideas in the physical and biological sciences from antiquity to the early 20th century. This course will also examine issues in scientific methodology as well as the impact of scientific ideas on society.
Antirequisites
History of Science 2200E, the former History 200E.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
A survey of the great philosophers from the pre-Socratics to Aquinas; focusing on the systematic unity of their thought, the influence of their ideas and their importance for us today. Themes include: the nature of reality, human existence, truth, God, political agency, and ethics.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 2200F/G, 2201F/G.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
6
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
A survey of the great philosophers from the Renaissance, through Modern philosophy to contemporary Post-modern thought, focusing on the systematic unity of their thought, the influence of their ideas and their importance for us today. Themes include: the nature of reality, human existence, truth, God, political agency, and ethics.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 2202F/G.
Prerequisites
Philosophy 2205W/X.
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
6
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
An introduction to Social and Political Thought through a reading of some of the main figures in European traditions of social theory, political sociology, Marxism and Frankfurt School critical theory.
Antirequisites
the former Philosophy 2204E
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
An introduction to the key concepts and issues in contemporary Japanese Thought and the influence of Buddhism and Shinto on Japanese philosophy. Students will investigate questions concerning the self, metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics from the perspective of classical and contemporary Japanese thinkers. No previous knowledge of philosophy assumed.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3 hours
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
This course explores central philosophical questions from a cross-cultural perspective. Students will learn about non-Western traditions and how they compare to the European tradition. Topics will include: the nature of the self, ethics, aesthetics, and metaphysical questions concerning the nature of life, our environment, and being.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Philosophy 2240 F/G
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
In the context of the environmental crisis, students consider the human being's relationship to the natural world, whether sentient beings have "rights", the just distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, how environmental phenomena are experienced by different social groups, and how justice claims are enacted/mobilized in struggles over resources.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
A study of sentential and predicate logic designed to train students to use procedures and systems (trees, natural deduction, axiomatic systems) for determining logical properties and relations, and to give students an understanding of syntactic and semantic meta-theoretical concepts and results relevant to those procedures and systems.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 2250, 2252W/X.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
This case-based course examines Canadian judicial thinking. Focusing on controversial rulings, students examine the legal structures and principles that operate in Canadian judicial thinking and its effect on Canadian life. Topics include: the constitution and charter of rights, fundamental freedoms, equality rights, Indigenous issues, civil and criminal responsibility, and sovereignty.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
Introduction to how moral reasoning can help to identify and address current and emerging disability-related situations in health care practice, caregiving, health policy and research. Normative ethics, philosophy of health care, and Disability Studies models are applied to discussion of case studies.
Antirequisites
Antirequisite(s): Philosophy 2272F/G, the former Disability Studies 2072F/G or the former Philosophy 2072F/G.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
Introduction to how moral reasoning can help to identify and address current emerging disabilityrelated situations in health care practice, caregiving, health policy and research. Normative ethics, philosophy of health care, and Disability Studies models are applied to discussion of case studies.
Antirequisites
Disability Studies 2272F/G, the former Disability Studies 2072F/G, the former Philosophy 2072F/G, the former Philosophy 2071E.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
CROSS-LISTED WITH DISABST 2272G.
Description
Students analyze the roles ideology, culture, political power, and history play in decision-making processes. Students will learn to elucidate, navigate, and apply select factors to standard decision-making and analytical processes in order to innovatively re-envision the deep conditioning factors that structure decisions and decision-making processes.
Antirequisites
N/A
Prerequisites
N/A
Co-requisites
N/A
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
An introduction to the main problems of epistemology. Specimen topics include: the nature of human knowledge and belief, perception, evidence, truth and confirmation.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
What IS gender? Does sex truly determine gender? Are gender differences fixed by our biology at birth or is gender entirely fluid? Is gender completely socially constructed or is it developmental? What do Intersex, Trans and Queer reveal about the relationship between gender and sex? Is gender identity solely in the eye of the beholder or in the community? How do systems like patriarchy and capitalism benefit from and contribute to dominant conceptions of gender, sex, and sexuality? So many questions and domains ripe for philosophical investigation!
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
Critical study of the nature and justification of ethical and value judgements, with an analysis of key concepts and a survey of the main contemporary theories.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
This class considers the intersection of ethical and political issues regarding global socioeconomic systems, ecological imbalance, and planetary change. It follows a pluralist methodology drawing from various world philosophical traditions and contemporary scholarship and explores issues of climate change and climate justice, decoloniality, social transformation and cultural pluralism.
Antirequisites
The former Philosophy 2244F/G
Prerequisites
Philosophy 2242F/G.
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
This is a research reading seminar that will explore the philosophical movement known as the "Kyoto School." The Kyoto School emerges from a critical confrontation between the Western tradition and Japanese Zen Buddhism. The goal of this seminar is to explore and come to appreciate the unique philosophical perspective developed by these thinkers and its potential. The course will limit itself to a reading of three of its most important representatives of the Kyoto School: Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945), considered to be the founder of the Kyoto School; Keiji Nishitani (1900-1990) the leading figure of the second generation Kyoto School thinkers; and finally Ueda Shizuteru (1926-2019) considered the last representative of the third generation of the Kyoto School.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
3rd or 4th year in a Philosophy module.
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
An advanced reading seminar in Social Political Thought. See the department website for details about the authors and topic being treated in any given year.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy or Social Political Thought program.
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
Through a close reading of Plato's Republic, we will discuss problems and solutions in Plato's ethics, psychology, metaphysics and politics. Our approach will be both understanding and critical. Topics will include the notion of justice, the soul's tri-partition, the education of the rulers-philosophers, and pleasure and happiness.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Third or fourth year standing in Philosophy.
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
= Special Topic | = Seminar | = Selected Offered during current academic year.
Description
What IS gender? Does sex truly determine gender? Are gender differences fixed by our biology at birth or is gender entirely fluid? Is gender completely socially constructed or is it developmental? What do Intersex, Trans and Queer reveal about the relationship between gender and sex? Is gender identity solely in the eye of the beholder or in the community? How do systems like patriarchy and capitalism benefit from and contribute to dominant conceptions of gender, sex, and sexuality? So many questions and domains ripe for philosophical investigation!
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
This is a research reading seminar that will explore the philosophical movement known as the "Kyoto School." The Kyoto School emerges from a critical confrontation between the Western tradition and Japanese Zen Buddhism. The goal of this seminar is to explore and come to appreciate the unique philosophical perspective developed by these thinkers and its potential. The course will limit itself to a reading of three of its most important representatives of the Kyoto School: Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945), considered to be the founder of the Kyoto School; Keiji Nishitani (1900-1990) the leading figure of the second generation Kyoto School thinkers; and finally Ueda Shizuteru (1926-2019) considered the last representative of the third generation of the Kyoto School.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
3rd or 4th year in a Philosophy module.
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
Description
Through a close reading of Plato's Republic, we will discuss problems and solutions in Plato's ethics, psychology, metaphysics and politics. Our approach will be both understanding and critical. Topics will include the notion of justice, the soul's tri-partition, the education of the rulers-philosophers, and pleasure and happiness.
This course investigates non-European ways of thinking "philosophically." Students will study African oral traditions, Central-Asian, Chinese, Japanese, and Indigenous traditions by looking at their approach to fundamental questions: what is the human being? What is nature and what is our relation to it? What is knowledge and what is happiness?
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
A study of selected works by great philosophers from Socrates to the present. Stress will be laid on the systematic unity of the thought of individual philosophers, and on the influence their ideas had on thier followers and on the thought of the present day.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 1300E.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
An introduction to the key social, political, and legal structures and ideas that shape our contemporary culture and worlds. Students explore complex, often-hidden social and political concepts and organizational practices that prescribe modes of behaviour, human interactions, and material modes of production.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
A multi-media and interdisciplinary historical survey of some of the most important philosophers (e.g. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Marx, Nietzsche), writers (e.g. Homer, Dante, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Kafka), and artists (da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Dali) that have shaped the course of Western thought and our contemporary world.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
2
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
1
Notes
1 Screening hour.
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Description
Special Topics course
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
Lab Hours
3
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
Special Topics in Philosophy
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
Lab Hours
3
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
The Buddha-Way lies at the heart of Zen. This course investigates the philosophical account of the non-self, world, ethics, politics, and environment rooted in this way of living. Students will read some of the classic works in the Zen tradition as well as contemporary philosophers working in that tradition.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3 Lecture Hours
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
A survey of selected philosophical problems, with reference to both classical and contemporary philosophers. Specimen topics include: the mind/body problem, the existence of God, perception and matter, freedom and determinism. Primarily for first-year students.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 1100E
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
This course develops student's ability to approach disputed questions by seeing them from both sides, so that they reach their own view only after respecting a broad range of argument. Six questions will be considered, including human (over)population, the public funding of art, and the limits of religious freedom.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
An introduction to the great human questions we all ask: Who are we? Why are we? How can we live a good life? Why do we suffer, die, encounter evil? What are sex, love, and friendship? What can we know? What ought we to do? What may we hope for?
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
How do we find happiness in life? Is it through the fulfillment of desire, be it for pleasure, wealth, fame, companionship, knowledge, or union with God? Perhaps, paradoxically, it is by abandoning desire altogether and leading a simple life. This course will explore how philosophy has responded to these issues.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
Students will examine what it means to be human through an examination of how language, art, religion, social media, and technology construct our sense of self and our relationships to each other and the world. Questions include: Is there a common human nature? Who am I beyond my cultural identity?
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
An introductory course into great philosophers. We will study and debate conceptions of philosophy as remedy for maladies of the soul, like ignorance and passions, in ancient times or particular attitudes and theories, like skepticism and utilitarianism, in modern times. How are those concepts useful for us today?
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
This course prepares students for university studies across the humanities and social sciences. Historical and theoretical models are considered in examining central issues and important thinkers. The course focuses on development of critical skills: close reading; creative thinking, and effective writing.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
The Philosophy unit of the King's Foundations in The New Liberal Arts is an interdisciplinary historical survey of some of the most important philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Marx, Nietzsche, Derrida) and artists (da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Dali) that have shaped the course of Western thought and our contemporary world.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Must be registered in the King's Foundations in The New Liberal Arts or the former Foundations in the Humanities.
Co-requisites
English 1901E and History 1901E.
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
There may be additional costs associated with field trips.
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Description
Thinking well is an art that begins with self-awareness, is guided by learning criteria for reasonableness of claims and decisions, and improves with practice. This course offers students an opportunity to enhance these lifelong skills and to develop as responsible learners and communicators
Antirequisites
Philosophy 1230A/B, Philosophy 1900E
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
An introduction to the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas through a study of several of his basic philosophical writings. The course will concern principally his philosophy of nature, philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, metaphysics and philosophical theology.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 2214
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
A study of Aristotelian logic. Special emphasis is placed on word usage, definition, propositional form, and the different types of deductive and inductive arguments. An extensive study of fallacies in argumentation is made. The methodologies of the sciences, both non-experimental and experimental are examined and evaluated.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 2222E.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
2
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
Introduction to how moral reasoning can help to identify and address current emerging disability-related situations in health care practice, caregiving, health policy and research. Normative ethics, philosophy of health care, and Disability Studies models are applied to discussion of case studies.
Antirequisites
Disability Studies 2072F/G, Philosophy 2071E
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
CROSS-LISTED WITH DISABST 2272G.
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Description
Ethical analysis of issues arising in contemporary business life. Sample topics: ethical codes in business; fair and unfair competition, advertising and consumer needs and wants; responsibilities to investors, employees and society; conflicts of interest and obligation; business and the regulatory environment.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
The increasing globalization of business activity poses ethical problems arising from the conflicting ethical norms of different cultures. This course uses specific cases to consider a variety of such ethical challenges in pursuit of a critical understanding of ethical corporate decision-making in a global context.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
A study of some main problems in Legal Philosophy. Emphasis is given to actual law, e.g. criminal law and contracts, as a background to questions of law's nature. Specimen topics: police powers in Canada, contractual obligation, insanity defence, judicial reasoning and discretion, civil liberties, legal responsibility, natural law and legal positivism.
Antirequisites
MIT 2020F/G
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
2
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
An introduction to 19th and 20th century existentialism through a reading of philosophy and literature, with an emphasis on the concrete existence of the individual searching for a meaning to his or her life.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
A general historical survey of ideas in the physical and biological sciences from antiquity to the early 20th century. This course will also examine issues in scientific methodology as well as the impact of scientific ideas on society.
Antirequisites
History of Science 2200E, the former History 200E.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
A survey of the great philosophers from the pre-Socratics to Aquinas; focusing on the systematic unity of their thought, the influence of their ideas and their importance for us today. Themes include: the nature of reality, human existence, truth, God, political agency, and ethics.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 2200F/G, 2201F/G.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
6
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
A survey of the great philosophers from the Renaissance, through Modern philosophy to contemporary Post-modern thought, focusing on the systematic unity of their thought, the influence of their ideas and their importance for us today. Themes include: the nature of reality, human existence, truth, God, political agency, and ethics.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 2202F/G.
Prerequisites
Philosophy 2205W/X.
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
6
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
An introduction to Social and Political Thought through a reading of some of the main figures in European traditions of social theory, political sociology, Marxism and Frankfurt School critical theory.
Antirequisites
the former Philosophy 2204E
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
An introduction to the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas through textual analysis and discussion of a selection of his philosophical writings. The course will concern principally his philosophy of nature, philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, metaphysics and philosophical theology.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 2014
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
A study of some of the central concepts in Aristotle's logic. Special emphasis is placed on deductive and inductive forms of reasoning, as well as argumentation materially considered, namely, demonstration, dialectics, rhetorical argumentation and poetic argumentation. In addition, a study of sophistical reasoning is made.
Antirequisites
Philosophy 2022
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
1.0
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
This course introduces early Chinese traditions (Confucian, Mohist, Daoist, Legalist). By studying controversies within and among these traditions, we gain appreciation of their diversity and learn how traditions adapt over time through interacting and responding to shared challenges. We discuss implications for contemporary issues facing Chinese and Western societies.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3 hours
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
CROSS-LISTED WITH PHIL 3325F 270.
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Description
An introduction to the key concepts and issues in contemporary Japanese Thought and the influence of Buddhism and Shinto on Japanese philosophy. Students will investigate questions concerning the self, metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics from the perspective of classical and contemporary Japanese thinkers. No previous knowledge of philosophy assumed.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3 hours
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
An introduction to Indigenous thought. Topics include: Indigenous understandings of knowledge-keeping and -transmission, narratives, the importance of Land in Indigenous cultures, as well as Indigenous approaches to questions in metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, and social and political philosophy, especially discourses surrounding colonisation, decolonisation, and rights. No previous knowledge of philosophy assumed.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight
0.5
Lecture Hours:
3
Lab Hours
Tutorial Hours:
Notes
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Description
What makes film unique? How has film changed the way we think and feel? Can film change the world? We explore philosophical questions asked about film since its rise in the early 20th century, covering Marxist, psychoanalytic, semiotic and cognitivist thought and such thinkers as Benjamin, Eisenstein, Bazin, and Deleuze.
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This seminar focuses on Nishitani's seminal work Religion and Nothingness. Nishitani provides
us with a Buddhist philosophy that unites Japanese thought, Zen Buddhism, and Western
philosophy. The Zen Buddhism experience of "nothing" is presented as a way of overcoming the
contemporary experience of nihilism. For Nishitani, modernity is characterized by a scientific and
economic rationality that objectifies both the natural world and the human being leading to the
depersonalization of the individual that is experienced as a sense of alienation and aimlessness in
life. The seminar assumes NO philosophical background.
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This course explores central philosophical questions from a cross-cultural perspective. Students will learn about non-Western traditions and how they compare to the European tradition. Topics will include: the nature of the self, ethics, aesthetics, and metaphysical questions concerning the nature of life, our environment, and being.
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Philosophy 2240 F/G
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0.5
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3
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In the context of the environmental crisis, students consider the human being's relationship to the natural world, whether sentient beings have "rights", the just distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, how environmental phenomena are experienced by different social groups, and how justice claims are enacted/mobilized in struggles over resources.
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An examination of philosophical questions induced by encounter between radically different worldviews, paradigms, and ways of being. Particular, but not exclusive, attention is given to encounters between Indigenous and European frameworks. Topics include: identity and hybridity, theories of time, translation and borders, ways of knowing, language, stories, narratives, and world-making.
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3
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Special Topics in Philosophy
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A study of sentential and predicate logic designed to train students to use procedures and systems (trees, natural deduction, axiomatic systems) for determining logical properties and relations, and to give students an understanding of syntactic and semantic meta-theoretical concepts and results relevant to those procedures and systems.
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Philosophy 2250, 2252W/X.
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3
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This course investigates the issues and dilemmas of morality and law in borderless global information technologies. Issues include cybercrime, state and corporate control of content, free speech, the border between private and public domain, electronic surveillance and threats to security and privacy, the impact on politics, counterculture resistance and terrorism.
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Philosophy 2998G taken in 2019-20.
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0.5
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3
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This case-based course examines Canadian judicial thinking. Focusing on controversial rulings, students examine the legal structures and principles that operate in Canadian judicial thinking and its effect on Canadian life. Topics include: the constitution and charter of rights, fundamental freedoms, equality rights, Indigenous issues, civil and criminal responsibility, and sovereignty.
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0.5
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3
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Introduction to how moral reasoning can help to identify and address current and emerging disability-related situations in health care practice, caregiving, health policy and research. Normative ethics, philosophy of health care, and Disability Studies models are applied to discussion of case studies.
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Antirequisite(s): Philosophy 2272F/G, the former Disability Studies 2072F/G or the former Philosophy 2072F/G.
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Introduction to how moral reasoning can help to identify and address current emerging disabilityrelated situations in health care practice, caregiving, health policy and research. Normative ethics, philosophy of health care, and Disability Studies models are applied to discussion of case studies.
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Disability Studies 2272F/G, the former Disability Studies 2072F/G, the former Philosophy 2072F/G, the former Philosophy 2071E.
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0.5
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3
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CROSS-LISTED WITH DISABST 2272G.
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Students analyze the roles ideology, culture, political power, and history play in decision-making processes. Students will learn to elucidate, navigate, and apply select factors to standard decision-making and analytical processes in order to innovatively re-envision the deep conditioning factors that structure decisions and decision-making processes.
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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0.5
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3
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An introduction to the main problems of epistemology. Specimen topics include: the nature of human knowledge and belief, perception, evidence, truth and confirmation.
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3
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What IS gender? Does sex truly determine gender? Are gender differences fixed by our biology at birth or is gender entirely fluid? Is gender completely socially constructed or is it developmental? What do Intersex, Trans and Queer reveal about the relationship between gender and sex? Is gender identity solely in the eye of the beholder or in the community? How do systems like patriarchy and capitalism benefit from and contribute to dominant conceptions of gender, sex, and sexuality? So many questions and domains ripe for philosophical investigation!
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3
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In this course, we will read and discuss The Brother's Karamazov in order to explore the nature and role of Dostoevsky's modern hero.
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This course will address distinctive questions associated with metaphysics: What is a human being with respect to self, freedom and body? What are space, time, and causation? In what respect do things remain the same throughout change? Why is there a world instead of nothing at all?
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Conceptual problems relating to personal and institutionalized religion. Specimen topics include: the nature of religious experience and knowledge, analysis of the concept of God, analysis and comparison of important types of religious philosophy.
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Philosophy 2063E
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1.0
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3
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This course provides a systematic introduction to the major themes of Islamic thought, and will address in particular the following questions:(l) What is Islamic thought and philosophy?; (2)Can the main statements of Islam be justified by reason?; (3) How did Ancient Greek ideas influence Islam?; and (4) What is Islamic Mysticism?
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0.5
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3
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Critical study of the nature and justification of ethical and value judgements, with an analysis of key concepts and a survey of the main contemporary theories.
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0.5
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3
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A study of some of the central issues and theoretical alternatives in contemporary political philosophy from egalitarianism, libertarianism, socialism, feminism, and communitarianism. Issues to be studied may include multiculturalism, economic redistribution, individual rights, and the limits of legitimate state authority.
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3
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This course examines perspectives on global justice and global inequality. Questions include: What obligations do wealthy nations have to people living in poverty? Does the global economic order harm the poor? Do wealthy nations have an obligation to open their borders to migrants? Do people have a right to democracy?
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Phil 2810F/G
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0.5
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2
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Virtually all philosophers accept the Mosaic injunction that "Thou shalt not kill". This course is about the alleged exceptions. Is it ever okay to kill terrorists, criminals, or enemy soldiers? What do various religious and secular traditions and institutions have to say about killing in the contexts of nature, medicine and ...society at large? Some authors have claimed that non-human animals and even ecosystems have the right not to be killed. Are they right? And what is the moral status of indirect killings that result from, say, pollution, overpopulation, and climate change? We discuss these and related controversies from the standpoint of various perspectives, including divine command theories in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, Aquinas's natural law approach, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism and virtue ethics.
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0.5
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2
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Over the course of the last three decades, human actions and interactions have become increasingly focused on digital devices and spaces. This course challenges students to contemplate the impact of this shift on our ethical lives. Using a blended-learning format of lectures combined with on-line resources, students will engage materials from scholars whose work addresses different elements of the ethical questions produced by the digital world. We start with an overview of the four dominant ethical theories, followed by readings that seek to determine whether digital technologies raise new ethical questions; whether they have an impact on individual identities and friendships; the degree to which digital information is, or should be, reliable; the impact on individual privacy; the ethics of internet piracy, hacking, and big data; whether the internet gives rise to gendered issues; and finally, possible ethical responses to cyberbullying.
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0.5
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2
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An emergent tendency across the humanities has been a shift from the "human" to non-human or "posthuman" forms of organization and being. Through the study of science-fiction film and literature, this course will examine topics including the cyborg, virtual reality, cyberspace and animal intelligence.
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2
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We will focus on arguments that hedonists and anti-hedonists brought up about the nature and the value of pleasure in ancient philosophy. In order to do so, we will read Plato, Aristotle and Epicurus.
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Philosophy 1100E, the former 136E, Philosophy 2200F/G or 2205W/X.
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3
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Which is the best possible human life? We will answer this question through a close-reading and critical discussion of one of the most important works in the history of philosophy. Our analysis will focus on human happiness, intentional action and responsibility, the virtues, emotions and reason, weakness of will, and pleasure.
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Philosophy 1100E, Philosophy 2200F/G or 2205W/X
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An advanced course in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas for those already familiar with his thought. Some later forms of Thomism will also be considered.
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Philosophy 2014
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1.0
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3
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A critical, historical and thematic examination of the main currents of 19th century European philosophy including German Idealism and the movements from which Existentialism originated -- forming the background to 20th century European Continental philosophy.
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Third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy.
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0.5
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3
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This course discusses Augustine's claim that self-knowledge leads to knowledge and love of God. Ideas examined include the operations of knowing, the character of truth, knowing and doing, the effects of evil, especially pride and self-deception, on knowing, and the relation of knowing to grace and revelation.
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3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program.
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3
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The Confucian Analects present a developing set of insights on transcendence through self-development and participation in cosmic harmony. This course examines the dynamic dialogue that is present among parts of the Analects on these ideas and on relevant unsettled questions that are considered in later Chinese thought.
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3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program.
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3
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The Canadian Lonergan's work on knowing and on being presents a possible ground for dialogue among scholars in science, philosophy and theology, and also among believers in various religions. This course examines some of his distinctive notions on the intelligibility of the universe, believe and faith, revelation, love, and hope.
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3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program.
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3
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Philosophy 1100E, the former 147E, Philosophy 2202F/G or 2206W/X.
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3
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Later modern philosophy with particular emphasis on the philosophy of the 19th century.
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Philosophy 2202F/G, 2206W/X, 3075F/G, or third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy.
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Later modern philosophy with particular emphasis on the philosophy of the 19th century.
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Philosophy 2202F/G, 2206W/X, 3075F/G, or third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy.
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3
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This class considers the intersection of ethical and political issues regarding global socioeconomic systems, ecological imbalance, and planetary change. It follows a pluralist methodology drawing from various world philosophical traditions and contemporary scholarship and explores issues of climate change and climate justice, decoloniality, social transformation and cultural pluralism.
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The former Philosophy 2244F/G
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Philosophy 2242F/G.
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3
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This course explores what classical Chinese thinkers variously taught about living a good life and challenges that one might encounter in doing so. We will focus on thinkers in the Confucian, Daoist, and Mohist traditions. Some of their interesting notions, not generally found in Western thought, include: cosmic sympathy, opposites as complements, excellence in the ordinary, responsiveness (affective cognitions, attunement), mediation, and moral memory. They also had diverse and intriguing notions regarding moral differences, moral failure, violence, and suffering. This course is offered as a unity of two elements. The first is shared with students in PHL 2225 (lectures and discussions). The second involves investigating a specific topic relevant to the course in depth, individually or collaborating with another student; this element will culminate in a research paper and an online presentation.
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3rd or 4th year in a Philosophy module.
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0.5
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3
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This is a research reading seminar that will explore the philosophical movement known as the "Kyoto School." The Kyoto School emerges from a critical confrontation between the Western tradition and Japanese Zen Buddhism. The goal of this seminar is to explore and come to appreciate the unique philosophical perspective developed by these thinkers and its potential. The course will limit itself to a reading of three of its most important representatives of the Kyoto School: Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945), considered to be the founder of the Kyoto School; Keiji Nishitani (1900-1990) the leading figure of the second generation Kyoto School thinkers; and finally Ueda Shizuteru (1926-2019) considered the last representative of the third generation of the Kyoto School.
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3rd or 4th year in a Philosophy module.
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A special topic in Ethics will be investigated.
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3rd or 4th year in a Philosophy module.
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An investigation into some of the central concepts of love from ancient, medieval, and modern thinkers. Special emphasis is placed on questions concerning the nature and role or eros, of agape, and of philia, and whether these different kinds of love can exist together harmoniously.
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3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program.
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0.5
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3
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A textual analysis and discussion of John Paul II's pre-pontifical and pontifical writings as they pertain to his philosophical thought.
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3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program.
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Topic: The Beautiful and The Good
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See department for current offerings.
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3rd or 4th year standing in Honors Specialization or Major in Philosophy modules.
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French political philosophy in the 1960's produced a large body of work focused on difference or alterity in response to the failure of politics and society to recognise and address the excesses of privilege, mass inequality, and social injustice. Philosophies of difference had a huge impact and helped change French and Western politics and thinking. Movements like post-structuralism, post-colonialism, postmodernism, ethics of alterity, deconstruction, and some parts of feminism stem from a consistent thinking about difference by thinkers like Frantz Fanon, Luce Irigaray, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. Some contemporary and later philosophers, while accepting the importance of difference, argued that difference had to be situated within a larger more unifying or universalist discourse in order to avoid fragmentation, isolation and atomization. For example, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière have put forward such concepts as the ultra-one of the event or the assumption of universal equality. At the present moment, there exists in French philosophy a tension between philosophers of difference and universalist thinkers. This course will explore this tension, ultimately offering students the possibility of critically navigating the relevant debates while making up their own minds on whether difference, universalism, or the tension between the two are sufficient for addressing the social and political inequalities that still continue to afflict contemporary society.
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3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy or Social Political Thought program.
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An advanced reading seminar in Social Political Thought. See the department website for details about the authors and topic being treated in any given year.
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rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy or Social Political Thought program.
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An advanced reading course open to third or fourth year students registered in an Honors Specialization, Honors Double Major or Specialization module in Philosophy. Before registering the student must work out a detailed plan of study with a professor willing to supervise the student's work and have this plan approved by the Undergraduate Chair.
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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of philosophy's greatest works, on par with Plato's Republic. Subjectively we understand experience in a non-arbitrary manner. This reflects the anthropocentric shift/transcendental turn in philosophy. The "Critique" is Kant's novel/ profound vision. In a wide-ranging manner, he examines themes in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, theology, and science.
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Philosophy 2202F/G or 2206W/X and third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy.
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An advanced reading seminar on Hegel's philosophy.
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3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program.
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Nietzsche lived on the edge of the abyss. Beyond meaning and non-meaning of human life, he–breakingly--broke open a new human time and space--beyond the Western Philosophical Tradition. All 20th/21st century philosophers are conjured from Nietzsche's visceral experience of the death of God in living today's grave culture.
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3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program.
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3
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Through a close reading of Plato's Republic, we will discuss problems and solutions in Plato's ethics, psychology, metaphysics and politics. Our approach will be both understanding and critical. Topics will include the notion of justice, the soul's tri-partition, the education of the rulers-philosophers, and pleasure and happiness.
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Third or fourth year standing in Philosophy.
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A study of the works of Aristotle.
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Third or fourth year standing in Philosophy.
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3
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Third or fourth year honors standing in a Philosophy program or module.
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0.5
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3
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This research seminar will explore the Kyoto School of Japanese Philosophy through a reading of the work of Nishida that synthesizes Zen Buddhism and Western Philosophy. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in an international conference on the Kyoto School that will take place in March, 2019 at King's.
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Third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy.
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0.5
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3
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An investigation of central figures and concepts in 20th century Continental European social and political thought. Questions to be investigated: the nature of power, the roles and nature of the state, the construction of subjectivity, feminism, and the legacy of genocide.
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3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program.
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0.5
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3
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Do we today have an answer to the question of what we really mean by the word "human"? Not at all. The question concerning the human is thus the question that defines our times. The collapse of the essentialist ontology of the Western tradition brought about an unprecedented intellectual and
socio-political "crisis." A crisis, however, is a turning point, a time for decisions and new directions, a critical time in which everything is at stake. With the end of traditional essentialist ontology, not only did the modern philosophy of the subject and with it the modern socio-political project of self-autonomy lose its ground but the theological understanding of the human also came to an end. This seminar exams Heidegger's work from the perspective of the question: What is the human? In this seminar, we will look critically read and discuss Heidegger's early and later philosophy.
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Prerequisites
Third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy.
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0.5
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3
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Third or fourth year honors standing in a Philosophy program or module.
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A close reading and critical discussion of the Stoic emperor's work. Topics include his cognitivist theory of emotions, his urge to live the present moment in the fullest, the tension between determinism and freedom. How can Marcus' unique solutions positively influence both our everyday life and the therapy of emotions?
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Prerequisites
Philosophy 2200F/G or 2205W/X, or by permission of the Department
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0.5
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3
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20th century phenomenologists developed and practiced methods by which they could access and describe the nature of reality. Students will engage with such phenomenologists (e.g., Husserl, Heidegger, Stein, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre) in order to analyze questions concerning the nature of being and consciousness, freedom, time, space, subjectivity and intersubjectivity.
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Prerequisites
3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program.
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0.5
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3
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An advanced reading course open to third or fourth year students registered in an Honors Specialization, Honors Double Major or Specialization module in Philosophy. Before registering the student must work out a detailed plan of study with a professor willing to supervise the student's work and have this plan approved by the Undergraduate Chair.
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0.5
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3
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This seminar focuses on Nishitani's seminal work Religion and Nothingness. Nishitani provides
us with a Buddhist philosophy that unites Japanese thought, Zen Buddhism, and Western
philosophy. The Zen Buddhism experience of "nothing" is presented as a way of overcoming the
contemporary experience of nihilism. For Nishitani, modernity is characterized by a scientific and
economic rationality that objectifies both the natural world and the human being leading to the
depersonalization of the individual that is experienced as a sense of alienation and aimlessness in
life. The seminar assumes NO philosophical background.
