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400 and 500-Level Courses
PHIL 598. Tutorial 07.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Individualized guided research on an approved topic in philosophy.
- Restriction(s): Open only to students in the Philosophy Honours and Joint Honours programmes.
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PHIL 411. Topics in Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A course focusing on some philosophical issue (e.g., the nature of numbers or the relation of truth to provability) as it arises in the study of mathematics and logic.
- Prerequisites: PHIL 210 or the equivalent, and one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 415. Philosophy of Language.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of central notions in the philosophy of language (reference, meaning, and truth, e.g.), the puzzles these notions give rise to, and the relevance of these notions to such questions as: What is language? How is communication possible? What is understanding? Is language rule-governed.
- Prerequisites: PHIL 210 or equivalent and one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 415 - Fall 2024
PHIL 419. Epistemology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
A discussion of central topics in the theory of knowledge. The questions addressed in the course may include: What is knowledge? Do we have any knowledge? What is the relation between knowledge and belief? When is belief justified? Is all knowledge conscious knowledge.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 210 or equivalent and one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 419 - Fall 2024
PHIL 421. Metaphysics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of central questions in metaphysics in their historical and contemporary forms. Topics may be chosen from such issues as: personal identity, the nature of space and time, the nature of events and properties, possible worlds, and the problem of realism.
- Prerequisites: PHIL 210 or equivalent and one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 427. Topics in Critical Philosophy of Race.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An advanced discussion of topics in the critical philosophy of race.
- PHIL 327 or permission of the instructor.
- Topics vary from year to year.
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PHIL 434. Metaethics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
A study of the status of sentences containing moral terms, judgements about moral claims, and the nature of moral facts.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 334 or written permission of the instructor
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PHIL 434 - Fall 2024
PHIL 436. Aesthetics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced discussion of issues in aesthetics.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 336 or written permission of the instructor
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PHIL 441. Philosophy of Science 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An analysis of some key philosophical ideas in science and technology, e.g. problem, explanation, forecast, testability and truth.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 341 or written permission of the instructor
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PHIL 442. Topics in Feminist Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Advanced discussion of topical and central themes in feminist theory.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 242 and one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 442 - Fall 2024
PHIL 444. Early Modern Political Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of political and moral theory from the Reformation to the French Revolution including Luther, Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Smith.
- Prerequisite: at least one course in political philosophy
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PHIL 444 - Fall 2024
PHIL 445. 19th Century Political Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of various strands of political theory since Rousseau, concentrating on such themes as the understanding of modernity and theories of liberal society.
- Prerequisite: at least one course in political philosophy
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 434
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PHIL 446. Current Issues in Political Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected issues in contemporary political philosophy.
- Prerequisite: at least one course in political philosophy
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PHIL 446 - Fall 2024
PHIL 450. Major Philosophers 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar will give detailed attention to the work of one philosopher or to a single philosophical theme addressed by several philosophers. Emphasis will be placed on understanding how the metaphysical, epistemological, and moral views of a figure or figures are internally related. Topic will vary from year to year.
- Prerequisite: one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 452. Later Greek Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An examination of some of the major post-Aristotelian schools of philosophy. Texts from the Peripatetic, Stoic, Epicurean, Sceptical, Platonic, and medical traditions may be considered. Problems in logic, ethics, physics, epistemology, and metaphysics will be addressed.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 354 or PHIL 355
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PHIL 453. Ancient Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of central themes of ancient metaphysics and/or natural philosophy as treated by two or more contrasting philosophers or philosophical traditions - probably including Plato and/or Aristotle, and possibly including some Hellenistic or post-Hellenistic schools.
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PHIL 454. Ancient Moral Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An examination of central themes of ancient moral theory as treated by two or more contrasting philosophers or philosophical traditions - probably including Plato and/or Aristotle, and possibly some Hellenistic or post-Hellenistic schools.
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PHIL 460. Major Philosophers 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
This seminar will give detailed attention to the work of one philosopher or to a single philosophical theme addressed by several philosophers. Emphasis will be placed on understanding how the metaphysical, epistemological, and moral views of a figure or figures are internally related.
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PHIL 470. Topics in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced discussion of major themes in the analytic tradition.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 370, PHIL 415 or written permission of instructor
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PHIL 474. Phenomenology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
A study of phenomenology from a historical and thematic perspective. The course will typically involve the study of central thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty, with an examination of the nature and development of the phenomenological movement.
- Prerequisite: one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 475. Topics in Contemporary European Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Advanced discussion of selected themes in contemporary European philosophy.
- Prerequisite: one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 480. Topics in the History of Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
An advanced discussion of some theme and/or problem in the history of philosophy.
- Prerequisite: one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 480 - Fall 2024
PHIL 481. Topics in Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Topics in philosophy. Topic varies by year.
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PHIL 497. Tutorial 04.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
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PHIL 497N1. Tutorial 04.
Credits: 1.5
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to students in Philosophy, and to Department.
- Students must also register for PHIL 497N2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both PHIL 497N1 and PHIL 497N2 are successfully completed in a twelve month period
- PHIL 497N1 and PHIL 497N2 together are equivalent to PHIL 497
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PHIL 497N2. Tutorial 04.
Credits: 1.5
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
- Prerequisite: PHIL 497N1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both PHIL 497N1 and PHIL 497N2 are successfully completed in a twelve month period
- PHIL 497N1 and PHIL 497N2 together are equivalent to PHIL 497
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PHIL 498. Tutorial 05.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Open to third year Joint Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
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PHIL 499D1. Tutorial 06.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
- Students must register for both PHIL 499D1 and PHIL 499D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both PHIL 499D1 and PHIL 499D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- PHIL 499D1 and PHIL 499D2 together are equivalent to PHIL 499
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PHIL 499D2. Tutorial 06.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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- Prerequisite: PHIL 499D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both PHIL 499D1 and PHIL 499D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- PHIL 499D1 and PHIL 499D2 together are equivalent to PHIL 499
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PHIL 499N1. Tutorial 06.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Open to third year Full Honours students in Philosophy, and to other students, with consent of the Department.
- Students must also register for PHIL 499N2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both PHIL 499N1 and PHIL 499N2 are successfully completed in a twelve month period
- PHIL 499N1 and PHIL 499N2 together are equivalent to PHIL 499
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PHIL 499N2. Tutorial 06.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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- Prerequisite: PHIL 499N1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both PHIL 499N1 and PHIL 499N2 are successfully completed in a twelve month period
- PHIL 499N1 and PHIL 499N2 together are equivalent to PHIL 499
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