Courses

View all of our graduate courses on the online course calendar.

View our Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 timetables. 

Fall 2023

 Course #

 Course title

Instructor

PHIL 500

X PHIL 490

Topics in Philosophy: On Human Nature: A Study of Raymond Tallis' The Explicit Animal

D. Scott  (outline)

PHIL 534

X PHIL 430

Topics in Ethics: Feminist Ethics

K. Stockdale (outline)

PHIL 591  

Research Methods Seminar

M. Raven

Spring 2024

 Course #

 Course title

Instructor

PHIL 500 A01

X LAW 343

Topics in Philosophy:  Advanced Philosophy of Law: The Right to Truth

C. Holder

PHIL 500 A02

Advanced Biomedical Ethics: MAiD, and Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Ethical Considerations

E. Kluge

PHIL 535

Advanced Social and Political Philosophy: The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 P. Dietsch

Spring 2023

 Course #

 Course title

Instructor

PHIL 541

X PHIL 440

Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Aesthetics

J. Young (outline)

PHIL 500 A01

X PHIL 490 A01 

Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Philosophy of Psychiatry

E. Hochstein (outline)

PHIL 500 A02

X PHIL 490 A02

Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Hope and Despair

K. Stockdale (outline)

 

Fall 2022

Course # 

 Course title

Instructor

PHIL 591 A01

Research Methods 

A. Yap (outline)

PHIL 500 A01

X PHIL 426

Topics in Philosophy: Plato's Republic

C. Roberts (outline)

PHIL 500 A03

X PHIL 430 

Topics in Philosophy: Utilitarianism

S. Woodcock (outline)

PHIL 500 A02

X PHIL 490

Topics in Philosophy: Kant, Critique of Judgement 

T. Land (outline)

 

Spring 2022

Course #

 Course title Instructor

PHIL 500 A01

X PHIL 427 A01

 Advanced Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Thomas Reid P. Rysiew (outline)

PHIL 535 A01

X PHIL 433 A01 

 Advanced Social and Political Philosophy: The Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off P. Dietsch (outline)

PHIL 535 A02

X PHIL 436 A01

 Advanced Philosophy of Law: International Human Rights C. Holder (outline)

Fall 2021

Course #

 Course title

Instructor

PHIL 500 A01

X PHIL 490 A01

 Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Philosophy, Climate and the Anthropocene

T. Heyd (outline)

PHIL 514 A01

X PHIL 460 A01

 Advanced Philosophy of Mind: On Human Nature: A Study of Raymond Tallis' Explicit Animal D. Scott (outline)

PHIL 552 A01

X PHIL 450 A01

 Advanced Metaphysics: Based and Baseless Truths M. Raven (outline)

Spring 2021

 Course #

 Course title

Instructor

PHIL 500

X PHIL 490

Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Plato’s Republic

C. Roberts (outline)

PHIL 500

X PHIL 490

Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Conceptualizing and Categorizing Phenomena in Science

E. Hochstein (outline)

PHIL 500

X PHIL 490

Advanced Topics in Philosophy:  Hope and Despair

K. Stockdale (outline)

Fall 2020

Course Instructor

PHIL 500: Topics: Self-Determination of Peoples

X PHIL 490

X LAW 343

 Cindy Holder (outline)

PHIL 541: Topics in Aesthetics: Aesthetics in a Larger Philosophical Context

X PHIL 440

 James Young (outline)

PHIL 551: Topics in Epistemology: Mind and World

X PHIL 451

 Thomas Land (outline)

Spring 2020

Course
 Instructor
PHIL 514: Advanced Philosophy of Mind: A Study of Raymond Tallis' Explicit Animal Scott (outline)
PHIL 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Blame, Anger, and Forgiveness Stockdale 
PHIL 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Philosophy of Psychiatry Hochstein 

Fall 2019

Course Instructor

Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Stoic Metaphysics and Epistemology

 Roberts (outline)

Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Thomas Reid

 Rysiew (outline)
Phil 561: Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Language: Language and Attitude Problems Raven (outline)
Phil 591: Graduate Seminar: Research Methods Seminar  MacLeod

Spring 2019

Course Instructor
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Holder
Phil 514: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: A Study in Philosophy of Religion: C.A. Campbell's "On Selfhood and Godhood" Scott (outline)
Phil 521: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Why Use Pictures? The Role of Images and Visual Representations in Science Hochstein
Phil 552: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Advanced Metaphysics Raven

Fall 2018

Course Instructor
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Speech, Power, and Harm Yap
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: How to Get Everything From Just One Thing: Plotinus' Metaphysical Monism Roberts (outline)
Phil 551: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Social Epistemology Rysiew (outline)

Spring 2018

Course Instructor
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Thomas Reid Rysiew (outline)
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: A Study in Philosophy of Religion: C.A. Campbell's "On Selfhood and Godhood" Scott (preview)
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Categorizing and Conceptualizing Phenomena in Science Hochstein (outline) 
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy 

Roberts (outline)

Fall 2017

Course Instructor
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Race and Social Identity Yap (outline)
Phil 541: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Topics in Ethics Young (outline)
Phil 534: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Topics in Aesthetics Woodcock (outline)
Phil 591: Research Methods Seminar 

Macleod

Spring 2017

Course Instructor
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Ethics & Epistemology in Hellenistic Philosophy  Roberts (outline)
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Naive Metaphysics   Raven (outline)
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: A Study of C.A. Campbell’s On Selfhood and Godhood    Scott (preview)
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Epistemic Injustice   Yap (outline)

Fall 2016

Course Instructor
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Theory of Perception  Kluge (outline)
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Thomas Reid    Rysiew (outline)
Phil 591: Research Methods Seminar Macleod

Spring 2016

Course Instructor
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Law: Truth Commission and Transitional Justice Holder (outline)
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: The Metaphysics of Rationalism Scott (outline)
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Philosophy of Medicine Stegenga (outline)
Phil 541: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Aesthetics Young (outline)

Fall 2015

Course Instructor
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Modality and Essence Raven (outline)
Phil 500: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Aristotle’s ethics and after Cameron (outline)
Phil 591: Research Methods Seminar Macleod

all 2014

Course Instructor
Phil 500: Contemporary Consequentialism   Woodcock (outline)
Phil 500: Metaphysical Explanation Raven (outline)
Phil 591: Graduate Seminar Macleod