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| 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? |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 1300E. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 1100E |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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? |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Prerequisites | Must be registered in the King's Foundations in The New Liberal Arts or the former Foundations in the Humanities. |
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| Co-requisites | English 1901E and History 1901E. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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 |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 1230A/B, Philosophy 1900E |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | MIT 2020F/G |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 2 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | History of Science 2200E, the former History 200E. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2200F/G, 2201F/G. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 6 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2202F/G. |
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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 2205W/X. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 6 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | the former Philosophy 2204E |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2014 |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2022 |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 hours |
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| Description | 2025-2026 Detailed Course Description: (Comparative Philosophy II: Philosophy of Time) Though we all experience time, it remains difficult to explain or understand. To quote Augustine, "If no one asks me, I know what time is, but if I want to explain it to someone who asks, I do not know." This comparative philosophy course focuses on time as its central theme. We will consider how time has been variously conceived and theorized across different world philosophical traditions from the West, the East (including East Asian and Indian) and Indigenous (including Anishinaabeg and Coast Salish). Topics include the metaphysics and physics of time, the phenomenological experience of time, and the relationship between time, history, and freedom. Authors may include Carlo Rovelli, Aquinas, Plato, Henri Bergson, Nagarjuna, Dōgen Zenji, Nishida Kitarō, Vine Deloria Jr., Basil Johnston, Kyle Whyte, and E. Richard Atleo. |
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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 2240 F/G |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2250, 2252W/X. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2272F/G, the former Disability Studies 2072F/G or the former Philosophy 2072F/G. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Cross-listed with Philosophy 2272F/G. |
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| 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. |
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| Antirequisites | Disability Studies 2272F/G, the former Disability Studies 2072F/G, the former Philosophy 2072F/G, the former Philosophy 2071E. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | CROSS-LISTED WITH DISABST 2272G. |
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| 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. |
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| Antirequisites | N/A |
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| Prerequisites | N/A |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This is a special topic in Philosophy course. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 2014 |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 2025-2026 Detailed Course Description: (Special Topics: Japanese Philosophy: Nakai and Kyoto School) This seminar will explore the work of Nakai, a member of the Kyoto School of Japanese Philosophy. The seminar will focus on two works considered his seminal works: "Utsusu" and "The Logic of the Committee." The instructor, Dr. Steve Lofts, has translated and published both works in the Journal of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy. |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year in a Philosophy module. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An advanced reading seminar in Social Political Thought with a focus on Human Rights. Topics will explore the power and philosophical underpinnings that are important to the consideration and establishment of human rights. See the department website for details about the authors and topic being treated in any given year. |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year registration, or permission of the Department. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 lecture hours. |
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| Description | 2025-2026 Detailed Course Description: This course investigates some of the central concepts of love from ancient, medieval, and modern thinkers. Special emphasis is placed on questions concerning the nature and role of eros, agape, and philia, and whether these different kinds of love can exist together harmoniously. Some authors and works studied include: C.S.Lewis' The Four Loves; J. Bedier's The Romance of Tristan and Iseult; Sheldon Vanauken's A Severe Mercy, and Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" in The Brothers Karamazov. |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Topic: The Beautiful and The Good |
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| Description | 2025-2026 Detailed Course Description: (Advanced Topics in Social Political Thought: Reassessing Marx and Contemporary Marxisms) The ideas of Karl Marx have greatly shaped 19th and 20th century social and political life around the globe, and they continue to inform the present day. Marx's critique of capital along with his notions of labour, commodification, value, alienation, and social life have inspired important movements of change, both within Canada and on the international stage. This course investigates key Marxian ideas and arguments while bringing them into discussion with contemporary social, political, and economic concepts and practices, for example, Neo-Liberal global financialism and debt-finance. We will also explore how Marxian philosophy continues to advocate actively for societal transformation and betterment by exploring living Marxian philosophical movements, including Afro-Marxism, Marxist-feminism, Liberation theologies, Operaist and Autonomist Movements, and Accelerationists. The ultimate goal of the course is to provide students with an alternative philosophical lens to view their contemporary social and political worlds. |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in any program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | With the help of Plato's Philebus, we will explore the different types of dialogue Plato conducts, how essential dialogue is for philosophy (and for our lives), and in what specific ways, if Plato's dialogues are not just literature. We will also examine various elements important for a theory and experience of pleasure, as well as its role in human life--such as the varieties of pleasure, the question of whether pleasure can be unified, and whether (some) pleasures are forms of thought. With some digressions to The Protagoras and Aristippus, we will also consider different models of rationality when considering overall well-being, including the maximizing model, which is often taken to be the default in contemporary discussions. But is it the only model? |
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| Prerequisites | Third or fourth year standing in Philosophy. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This is a special topic in Philosophy course. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 2025-2026 Detailed Course Description: (Special Topics: Japanese Philosophy: Nakai and Kyoto School) This seminar will explore the work of Nakai, a member of the Kyoto School of Japanese Philosophy. The seminar will focus on two works considered his seminal works: "Utsusu" and "The Logic of the Committee." The instructor, Dr. Steve Lofts, has translated and published both works in the Journal of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy. |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year in a Philosophy module. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | With the help of Plato's Philebus, we will explore the different types of dialogue Plato conducts, how essential dialogue is for philosophy (and for our lives), and in what specific ways, if Plato's dialogues are not just literature. We will also examine various elements important for a theory and experience of pleasure, as well as its role in human life--such as the varieties of pleasure, the question of whether pleasure can be unified, and whether (some) pleasures are forms of thought. With some digressions to The Protagoras and Aristippus, we will also consider different models of rationality when considering overall well-being, including the maximizing model, which is often taken to be the default in contemporary discussions. But is it the only model? |
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| Prerequisites | Third or fourth year standing in Philosophy. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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? |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 1300E. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 2 |
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| Lab Hours | | Tutorial Hours | 1 |
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| Notes | 1 Screening hour. |
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| Description | Special Topics course |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | |
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| Description | Special Topics in Philosophy |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | |
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| Lab Hours | 3 | Tutorial Hours | |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 Lecture Hours |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 1100E |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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? |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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? |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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? |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Prerequisites | Must be registered in the King's Foundations in The New Liberal Arts or the former Foundations in the Humanities. |
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| Co-requisites | English 1901E and History 1901E. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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 |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 1230A/B, Philosophy 1900E |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2214 |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2222E. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 2 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Disability Studies 2072F/G, Philosophy 2071E |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | MIT 2020F/G |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 2 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | History of Science 2200E, the former History 200E. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2200F/G, 2201F/G. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 6 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2202F/G. |
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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 2205W/X. |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 6 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | the former Philosophy 2204E |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2014 |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2022 |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 hours |
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| 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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 hours |
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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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Cross-listed with PHIL 4997F. |
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| Description | 2025-2026 Detailed Course Description: (Comparative Philosophy II: Philosophy of Time) Though we all experience time, it remains difficult to explain or understand. To quote Augustine, "If no one asks me, I know what time is, but if I want to explain it to someone who asks, I do not know." This comparative philosophy course focuses on time as its central theme. We will consider how time has been variously conceived and theorized across different world philosophical traditions from the West, the East (including East Asian and Indian) and Indigenous (including Anishinaabeg and Coast Salish). Topics include the metaphysics and physics of time, the phenomenological experience of time, and the relationship between time, history, and freedom. Authors may include Carlo Rovelli, Aquinas, Plato, Henri Bergson, Nagarjuna, Dōgen Zenji, Nishida Kitarō, Vine Deloria Jr., Basil Johnston, Kyle Whyte, and E. Richard Atleo. |
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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 2240 F/G |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Special Topics in Philosophy |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2250, 2252W/X. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2998G taken in 2019-20. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2272F/G, the former Disability Studies 2072F/G or the former Philosophy 2072F/G. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Cross-listed with Philosophy 2272F/G. |
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| 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. |
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| Antirequisites | Disability Studies 2272F/G, the former Disability Studies 2072F/G, the former Philosophy 2072F/G, the former Philosophy 2071E. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | CROSS-LISTED WITH DISABST 2272G. |
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| 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. |
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| Antirequisites | N/A |
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| Prerequisites | N/A |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This is a special topic in Philosophy course. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This is a special topic in Philosophy course. |
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| Description | 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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| Description | 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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| Antirequisites | Philosophy 2063E |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | A study of a selected topic in Philosophy, presupposing no previous studies in the area and aimed at students in second or third year. The topics will vary from year to year. More detailed information concerning course content and Antirequisites may be obtained from the Department prior to registration. |
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| Antirequisites | Phil 2810F/G |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 2 |
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| Description | A study of a selected topic in Philosophy, presupposing no previous studies in the area and aimed at students in second or third year. The topics will vary from year to year. More detailed information concerning course content and Antirequisites may be obtained from the Department prior to registration. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 2 |
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| Description | A study of a selected topic in Philosophy, presupposing no previous studies in the area and aimed at students in second or third year. The topics will vary from year to year. More detailed information concerning course content and Antirequisites may be obtained from the Department prior to registration. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 2 |
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| Description | A study of a selected topic in Philosophy, presupposing no previous studies in the area and aimed at students in second or third year. The topics will vary from year to year. More detailed information concerning course content and Antirequisites may be obtained from the Department prior to registration |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 2 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 1100E, the former 136E, Philosophy 2200F/G or 2205W/X. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 1100E, Philosophy 2200F/G or 2205W/X |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 2014 |
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | Third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 1100E, the former 147E, Philosophy 2202F/G or 2206W/X. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Later modern philosophy with particular emphasis on the philosophy of the 19th century. |
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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 2202F/G, 2206W/X, 3075F/G, or third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Later modern philosophy with particular emphasis on the philosophy of the 19th century. |
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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 2202F/G, 2206W/X, 3075F/G, or third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Antirequisites | The former Philosophy 2244F/G |
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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 2242F/G. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year in a Philosophy module. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | CROSS-LISTED WITH PHIL 2225F 270. |
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| Description | 2025-2026 Detailed Course Description: (Special Topics: Japanese Philosophy: Nakai and Kyoto School) This seminar will explore the work of Nakai, a member of the Kyoto School of Japanese Philosophy. The seminar will focus on two works considered his seminal works: "Utsusu" and "The Logic of the Committee." The instructor, Dr. Steve Lofts, has translated and published both works in the Journal of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy. |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year in a Philosophy module. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | A special topic in Ethics will be investigated. |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year in a Philosophy module. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An advanced reading seminar in Social Political Thought with a focus on Human Rights. Topics will explore the power and philosophical underpinnings that are important to the consideration and establishment of human rights. See the department website for details about the authors and topic being treated in any given year. |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year registration, or permission of the Department. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 lecture hours. |
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| Description | 2025-2026 Detailed Course Description: This course investigates some of the central concepts of love from ancient, medieval, and modern thinkers. Special emphasis is placed on questions concerning the nature and role of eros, agape, and philia, and whether these different kinds of love can exist together harmoniously. Some authors and works studied include: C.S.Lewis' The Four Loves; J. Bedier's The Romance of Tristan and Iseult; Sheldon Vanauken's A Severe Mercy, and Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" in The Brothers Karamazov. |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Topic: The Beautiful and The Good |
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| Description | See department for current offerings. |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in Honors Specialization or Major in Philosophy modules. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| 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. |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy or Social Political Thought program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 2025-2026 Detailed Course Description: (Advanced Topics in Social Political Thought: Reassessing Marx and Contemporary Marxisms) The ideas of Karl Marx have greatly shaped 19th and 20th century social and political life around the globe, and they continue to inform the present day. Marx's critique of capital along with his notions of labour, commodification, value, alienation, and social life have inspired important movements of change, both within Canada and on the international stage. This course investigates key Marxian ideas and arguments while bringing them into discussion with contemporary social, political, and economic concepts and practices, for example, Neo-Liberal global financialism and debt-finance. We will also explore how Marxian philosophy continues to advocate actively for societal transformation and betterment by exploring living Marxian philosophical movements, including Afro-Marxism, Marxist-feminism, Liberation theologies, Operaist and Autonomist Movements, and Accelerationists. The ultimate goal of the course is to provide students with an alternative philosophical lens to view their contemporary social and political worlds. |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in any program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | Philosophy 2202F/G or 2206W/X and third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An advanced reading seminar on Hegel's philosophy. |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | With the help of Plato's Philebus, we will explore the different types of dialogue Plato conducts, how essential dialogue is for philosophy (and for our lives), and in what specific ways, if Plato's dialogues are not just literature. We will also examine various elements important for a theory and experience of pleasure, as well as its role in human life--such as the varieties of pleasure, the question of whether pleasure can be unified, and whether (some) pleasures are forms of thought. With some digressions to The Protagoras and Aristippus, we will also consider different models of rationality when considering overall well-being, including the maximizing model, which is often taken to be the default in contemporary discussions. But is it the only model? |
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| Prerequisites | Third or fourth year standing in Philosophy. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | A study of the works of Aristotle. |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | Third or fourth year standing in Philosophy. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | Third or fourth year honors standing in a Philosophy program or module. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | Third or fourth year honors standing in Philosophy. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | Third or fourth year honors standing in a Philosophy program or module. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | 3rd or 4th year standing in a Philosophy program. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | 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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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Cross-listed with PHIL 2240F |
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