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300-Level Courses
PHIL 301. Philosophical Fundamentals.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An intensive study of basic philosophical skills; reading, writing, analysis, and argumentation.
- Prerequisites: two previous courses in philosophy, one of which must be PHIL 210 or written consent of the Department
- Restriction: Open only to and required of Philosophy Honours and Joint Honours students
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PHIL 301 course description
PHIL 306. Philosophy of Mind.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
A survey of major positions of the mind-body problem, focusing on such questions as: Do we have minds and bodies? Can minds affect bodies? Is mind identical to body? If so, in what sense "identical"? Can physical bodies be conscious.
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PHIL 310. Intermediate Logic.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
A second course in Logic. NB. The course will be technical in nature, and some mathematical aptitude is essential. The emphasis is on the expressive properties of standard logical systems, including implications for the philosophy of mathematics. We will study the Completeness of First-Order Logic, then the 'limitative' theorems of Tarski and Gödel.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 210 or equivalent
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PHIL 311. Philosophy of Mathematics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
This course provides an historically informed introduction to philosophy of mathematics. It gives the student an overview of prominent issues and arguments, to enable her to follow and discuss contemporary research in philosophy of mathematics.
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PHIL 327. Philosophy of Race.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An introduction to issues in the philosophy of race, for example: the metaphysical status of race; the biology of racial categories; the social construction of race; the relationship between race and racism; the phenomenology of racialized subjectivity; or, intersections of race, gender, and other identity categories.
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PHIL 334. Ethical Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
A course focusing on central questions in ethical theory such as the nature of the good and the right and the factors which determine moral rightness and wrongness.
- Prerequisite: one of PHIL 230, PHIL 237, PHIL 242, PHIL 343, or written permission of the instructor
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PHIL 336. Aesthetics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An introduction to issues central to aesthetic theory; the nature of aesthetic judgment, perception of the aesthetic object, the nature of the art object.
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PHIL 336 course description
PHIL 341. Philosophy of Science 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
A discussion of philosophical problems as they arise in the context of scientific practice and enquiry. Such issues as the philosophical presuppositions of the physical and social sciences, the nature of scientific method and its epistemological implications will be addressed.
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PHIL 341 course description
PHIL 343. Biomedical Ethics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An investigation of ethical issues as they arise in the practice of medicine (informed consent, e.g.) or in the application of medical technology (in vitro fertilization, euthanasia, e.g.)
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PHIL 344. Medieval and Renaissance Political Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of Medieval and Renaissance political theory.
- Not open to students who have taken or are taking POLI 334.
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PHIL 345. Greek Political Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of the ethical and political theories of ancient Greece, especially those of Plato and Aristotle.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 333
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PHIL 348. Philosophy of Law 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
A discussion of the nature of justice and law, and of the relationship between them.
- Restriction: This course is intended for students with a non-professional interest in law, as well as for those considering law as a profession
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PHIL 349. Environmental Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An introduction to environmental ethics; potentially also such related fields as philosophy of ecology, environmental aesthetics, and/or other philosophical topics demonstrably relevant to environmental issues.
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PHIL 349 course description
PHIL 350. History and Philosophy of Ancient Science.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in ancient pure mathematics (geometry and number theory), "mixed mathematics" (astronomy, music theory, optics, mechanics), and/or natural science (including medicine), studied with a view to philosophical issues raised by the content of ancient science and/or by the logic of scientific argument.
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PHIL 353. The Presocratic Philosophers.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of the surviving fragments of the presocratic philosophers and schools of philosophy, as well as later reports of their views.
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PHIL 353 course description
PHIL 354. Plato.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An examination of some of the philosophical problems (those in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, e.g.) found in a selection of Plato's dialogues.
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PHIL 354 Course outline
PHIL 355. Aristotle.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An examination of selected works by Aristotle. The course considers issues in moral philosophy as well as those found in the logical treatises, the Physics and Metaphysics, and in the philosophy of mind.
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PHIL 355 course outline
PHIL 356. Early Medieval Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of selected works in the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. Topics in moral and political philosophy, logic and metaphysics, philosophical psychology and epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophical theology may be discussed.
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PHIL 356 course description
PHIL 360. 17th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of the work of such seventeenth-century philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Gassendi, Malebranche, Leibniz, and the Cambridge Platonists.
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PHIL 360 course outline
PHIL 361. 18th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
A survey of eighteenth century philosophy, especially British philosophy. Attention is given to fundamental metaphysical, epistemological, and moral issues as reflected in the work of such philosophers as Locke, Shaftesbury, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Butler, Hume and Reid.
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PHIL 366. 18th and Early 19th Century German Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of the works of such philosophers as Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, Schelling, and Hegel.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 360 or PHIL 361 is recommended
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PHIL 367. 19th Century Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An examination of the works of such 19th century philosophers as Mach, Helmholtz, Dedekind, Frege, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Mill and Bradley.
- Prerequisite: A previous course in philosophy is recommended
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PHIL 375. Existentialism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025
Description
This course will examine the nature of existentialist thought as represented in various philosophical and literary texts. Particular themes to be examined include freedom, alienation, responsibility and choice, and the nature of self.
- Prerequisite: one course in philosophy
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PHIL 375 course description
PHIL 397. Tutorial 01.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
- Restriction: Open to second year Full Honours students in Philosophy and to other students, with consent of the Department
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PHIL 398. Tutorial 02.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
- Restriction: Open to second year Full Honours students in Philosophy and to other students, with consent of the Department
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