School of Arts and Sciences
Department of Philosophy

Special Courses Archive

The department offers special courses each term. Here are the special courses from previous semesters:

Fall 2023

History

  • PHIL 0091-05 Special Topics: NIETZSCHE

Metaphysics & Epistemology

  • PHIL 0091-02 Special Topics: Objectivity
  • PHIL 0091-08 Special Topics: The Meaning of Life
  • PHIL 0191-02 Seminars In Philosophy: Personal and Social Identity
  • PHIL 0191-03 Seminars In Philosophy: Selfhood and Simulacre

Value Theory

  • PHIL 0091-02 Special Topics: Objectivity
  • PHIL 0091-03 Special Topics: Philosophy for Children
  • PHIL 0091-05 Special Topics: NIETZSCHE
  • PHIL 0091-07 Special Topics: Restorative Justice
  • PHIL 0091-08 Special Topics: The Meaning of Life
  • PHIL 0195-01 Special Topics: Contemporary Political Philosophy

Spring 2023

History

  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: Love and Sexuality
  • PHIL 0092-04 Special Topics: Philosophy as a Way of Life
  • PHIL 0192-06 Seminars In Philosophy: Feminist Philosophy
  • PHIL 0196-01 Special Topics: Kant and Post-Kantian Idealism

Metaphysics & Epistemology

  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: Love and Sexuality
  • PHIL 0192-01 Seminars In Philosophy: Where Am I–In The Metaverse
  • PHIL 0192-02 Seminars In Philosophy: Philosophy of Mathematics
  • PHIL 0192-03 Seminars In Philosophy: Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Science
  • PHIL 0192-04 Seminars In Philosophy: Spite and Altruism
  • PHIL 0192-06 Seminars In Philosophy: Feminist Philosophy
  • PHIL 0292-01 Micro Research Seminar: Advanced Epistemology 

Value Theory

  • PHIL 0092-01 Special Topics: Pre-college Philosophy
  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: Love and Sexuality
  • PHIL 0092-03 Special Topics: On Lying
  • PHIL 0092-04 Special Topics: Philosophy as a Way of Life
  • PHIL 0092-05 Special Topics: Climate Change Ethics
  • PHIL 0092-06 Special Topics: Music and Ethics
  • PHIL 0192-04 Seminars In Philosophy: Spite and Altruism
  • PHIL 0192-05 Seminars In Philosophy: Black Political Thought
  • PHIL 0192-06 Seminars In Philosophy: Feminist Philosophy

Fall 2022

History

  • PHIL 0091-04 Special Topics: Chinese Philosophy
  • PHIL 0091-05 Special Topics: NIETZSCHE

Metaphysics & Epistemology

  • PHIL 0191-03 Seminars In Philosophy: Ground, Essence, and Real Definition

Value Theory

  • PHIL 0091-02 Special Topics: Media Ethics
  • PHIL 0091-03 Special Topics: Philosophy for Children
  • PHIL 0091-05 Special Topics: NIETZSCHE
  • PHIL 0191-02 Seminars In Philosophy: Accountability and Justice

Spring 2022

History

  • PHIL 0092-04 Special Topics: Philosophy as a Way of Life
  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: Love and Sexuality
  • PHIL 0195-02 Special Topics: The Problem of "The World"

Metaphysics & Epistemology

  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: Love and Sexuality
  • PHIL 0192-01 Seminars In Philosophy: Advanced Topics in Epistemology
  • PHIL 0192-02 Seminars In Philosophy: Evolutions and Philosophy
  • PHIL 0192-03 Seminars In Philosophy: Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Science
  • PHIL 0192-04 Seminars In Philosophy: Accessing Prehistory
  • PHIL 0195-02 Special Topics: The Problem of "The World"

Value Theory

  • PHIL 0092-01 Special Topics: Pre-college Philosophy
  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: Love and Sexuality
  • PHIL 0092-03 Special Topics: On Lying
  • PHIL 0092-04 Special Topics: Philosophy as a Way of Life
  • PHIL 0092-05 Special Topics: Consciousness, Action, & Gaming
  • PHIL 0192-05 Seminars In Philosophy: Black Political Thought
  • PHIL 0192-06 Seminars In Philosophy: Rawls's Theory and Its Critics

Fall 2021

Metaphysics & Epistemology

  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: The Meaning of Life
  • PHIL 0191-03 Seminars: Simulation, Immersion & Gaming

Value Theory

  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: The Meaning of Life
  • PHIL 0092-03 Special Topics: Climate Change Ethics
  • PHIL 0092-05 Special Topics: Transformative Justice
  • PHIL 0191-03 Seminars: Simulation, Immersion & Gaming

Spring 2021

History

  • PHIL 0092-01 Special Topics: NIETZSCHE
  • PHIL 0092-03 Special Topics: Love and Sexuality
  • PHIL 0186-01 Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • PHIL 0192-03 Seminars In Philosophy: Plato

Metaphysics & Epistemology

  • PHIL 0092-03 Special Topics: Love and Sexuality
  • PHIL 0186-01 Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • PHIL 0192-02 Seminars In Philosophy: New Work on Consciousness
  • PHIL 0292-01 Graduate Seminar: Advanced Epistemology

Value Theory

  • PHIL 0092-01 Special Topics: NIETZSCHE
  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: Pre-college Philosophy
  • PHIL 0092-03 Special Topics: Love and Sexuality
  • PHIL 0092-04 Special Topics: On Lying
  • PHIL 0192-01 Seminars In Philosophy: Political Phil of MLK, Jr.
  • PHIL 0192-04 Seminars In Philosophy: Moral Particularism
  • PHIL 0195-01 Special Topics: Contemporary Political Philosophy
  • PHIL 0197-01 Seminars: Ethics, Law, and Society

Fall 2020

History

  • PHIL 91-02 Special Topics: History & Philosophy of Emotions
  • PHIL 91-03 Special Topics: Chinese Philosophy
  • PHIL 91-05 Special Topics: Philosophy & Revolution

Metaphysics & Epistemology

  • PHIL 191-01 Seminar: Nothingness
  • PHIL 191-04 Seminar: Assertion and the Future

Value Theory

  • PHIL 91-04 Special Topics: Media Ethics
  • PHIL 91-05 Special Topics: Philosophy & Revolution
  • PHIL 91-06 Special Topics: Philosophy for Children
  • PHIL 191-03 Seminar: Punishment & Responsibility

Spring 2020

History

  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: NIETZSCHE
  • PHIL 0092-04 Special Topics: Philosophy as a Way of Life
  • PHIL 0192-01 Seminars In Philosophy: Political Phil of MLK, Jr.
  • PHIL 0195-01 Special Topics: The Problem of "The World"
  • PHIL 0195-02 Special Topics: Autonomy from Kant to Beauvoir

Metaphysics & Epistemology

  • PHIL 0092-03 Special Topics: Problems of the Self
  • PHIL 0192-02 Seminars In Philosophy: Current Work on Free Will
  • PHIL 0192-03 Seminars In Philosophy: Phil Foundations of Cognitive Science
  • PHIL 0192-04 Seminars In Philosophy: Nothingness
  • PHIL 0195-01 Special Topics: The Problem of "The World"
  • PHIL 0292-01 Graduate Seminar: Advanced Epistemology
  • PHIL 0292-02 Graduate Seminar: The Metaphysics of Modality

Value Theory

  • PHIL 0092-01 Special Topics: Pre-college Philosophy
  • PHIL 0092-02 Special Topics: NIETZSCHE
  • PHIL 0092-04 Special Topics: Philosophy as a Way of Life
  • PHIL 0192-01 Seminars In Philosophy: Political Phil of MLK, Jr.
  • PHIL 0292-03 Graduate Seminar: The Objectivity of Value

Fall 2019

History

  • PHIL 0091-01 Special Topics: Plato and the Moderns
  • PHIL 0195-02 Special Topics: Chomsky
  • Metaphysics & Epistemology
  • PHIL 0191-02 Seminars: Non-human Cognition
  • PHIL 0195-01 Special Topics: Moral Responsibility & Personal Identity
  • PHIL 0195-02 Special Topics: Chomsky

Value Theory

  • PHIL 0091-01 Special Topics: Plato and the Moderns
  • PHIL 0091-02 Special Topics: Philosophy for Children
  • PHIL 0191-03 Seminars: Race and Black Progress
  • PHIL 0195-01 Special Topics: Moral Responsibility & Personal Identity

Fall 2016

History

  • PHIL 191-02: From Individuals to Citizens

Metaphysics and Epistemology

  • PHIL 191-03: Topics in Metaphysics
  • PHIL 191-04: Foundations of Cognitive Science

Value Theory

  • PHIL 191-06: Environmental Ethics
  • PHIL 291-01: Value

Fall 2015

History

  • PHIL 191-01 Use & Abuse of Philosophy: Plato to Nietzsche
  • PHIL 191-02 Slavery: Its Moral History
  • PHIL 191-05 Philosophy in the Greek, Latin & Arabic Traditions

Metaphysics and Epistemology

  • PHIL 191-03 Foundations of Cognitive Science
  • PHIL 191-04 Philosophy of David Lewis
  • PHIL 291-01 Rule Following

Value Theory

  • PHIL 191-01 Use & Abuse of Philosophy: Plato to Nietzsche
  • PHIL 191-02 Slavery: Its Moral History

Fall 2014

History

  • PHIL 0091-01 From Sinners to Sociopaths
  • PHIL 0091-02 Happiness and the Good Life
  • PHIL 0191-01 History of Analytic Philosophy

Metaphysics and Epistemology

  • PHIL 0091-03 Reality and Subjectivity
  • PHIL 0191-01 History of Analytic Philosophy
  • PHIL 0191-02 Aesthetic Psychology

Value Theory

  • PHIL 0091-01 From Sinners to Sociopaths
  • PHIL 0091-02 Happiness and the Good Life
  • PHIL 0191-02 Aesthetic Psychology
  • PHIL 0191-03 Objectivity in Ethics
  • PHIL 0191-04 Metaethics after Moore

Spring 2014

Metaphysics and Epistemology

  • PHIL 0091-03 Skepticism
  • PHIL 0191-02 Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Science
  • PHIL 0195-01 Aesthetic Psychology
  • PHIL 0195-02 Formal Epistemology

Value Theory

  • PHIL 0091-01 Philosophy of Criminal Justice
  • PHIL 0091-02 War and Terrorism
  • PHIL 0191-01 Contemporary Virtue Ethics
  • PHIL 0195-01 Aesthetic Psychology