Graduate Courses

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Spring 2023

Self and Self-Formation in Kant and selected Post-Kantian Thinkers
AS.150.637 (01)

This course examines theories of the self and self-formation in Immanuel Kant and selected post-Kantian thinkers in the German tradition, including Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Wilhelm Dilthey. The course will focus on how knowing oneself and becoming oneself are mutually dependent. For each thinker, we will discuss their accounts of self-consciousness and self-understanding as well as the conditions for forming a moral character. Emphasis will be placed on close reading of the original texts, historically informed interpretation, and systematic argumentation.

Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: Staff
Room: Gilman 288
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a

Dept Colloquium
AS.150.641 (01)

Presentations by invited speakers.

Credits: 1.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Instructor: Bledin, Justin
Room: Gilman 288
Status: Open
Seats Available: 44/60
PosTag(s): n/a

Topics in Epistemology, Language and Mind
AS.150.652 (01)

This seminar will survey classic and contemporary work on the nature of attitudes like belief, knowledge, desire, and intention.

Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Holguín, Ben Walton
Room: Gilman 288
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/20
PosTag(s): PHIL-SEM, PHIL-MIND

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (01)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Pickard, Hanna
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (02)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Allais, Lucy
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (03)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Gross, Steven
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (04)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Moyar, Dean
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (05)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (06)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (07)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Bok, Hilary
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (08)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Bett, Richard
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (09)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Williams, Michael
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (10)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Bledin, Justin
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (11)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (12)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (13)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Taylor, Elanor J.
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (14)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Phillips, Ian B
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (15)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Holguín, Ben Walton
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (16)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Ismael, Jenann T
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (17)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Carroll, Sean Michael
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Independent Study
AS.150.810 (18)

By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Velleman, David David
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (01)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Allais, Lucy
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (02)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Pickard, Hanna
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (03)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Gross, Steven
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (04)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Moyar, Dean
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (05)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (06)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (07)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Bok, Hilary
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (08)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Bett, Richard
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (09)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Williams, Michael
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (10)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Bledin, Justin
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (11)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (12)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (13)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Taylor, Elanor J.
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (14)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Phillips, Ian B
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (15)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Holguín, Ben Walton
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (16)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Ismael, Jenann T
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (17)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Carroll, Sean Michael
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.811 (18)

Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Velleman, David David
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (01)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Pickard, Hanna
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (02)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Allais, Lucy
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (03)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Gross, Steven
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (04)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Moyar, Dean
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (05)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Rynasiewicz, Robert
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (06)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (07)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Bok, Hilary
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (08)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Bett, Richard
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (09)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Williams, Michael
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (10)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Bledin, Justin
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (11)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Achinstein, Peter
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (12)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (13)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Taylor, Elanor J.
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (14)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Phillips, Ian B
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

Directed Study
AS.150.812 (15)

Please see AS.150.810 for section number to use when registering.

Credits: 10.00 - 20.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Kosch, Michelle
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a

READINGS AND SKILLS IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY II
AS.150.823 (01)

This course provides skills training for a successful career in philosophy, through engagement with cutting-edge contemporary work across a wide-range of areas of philosophy. As a class, we will choose accessible articles of general interest recently published in top journals. Each student will be responsible for presenting one of these articles to the class and leading discussion, with guidance from the instructors. All students will be required to carefully and closely read each paper for each class, and come prepared to discuss it in depth. The aim of this part of the course is to learn how to read and analyze articles, present work, and engage in constructive philosophical discussion. After presenting the paper, each presenter will be required to write a short reply to it, in the style of the relevant journal. As a class, we will then engage in a mock review process, crafting anonymous referee reports, revising replies in the light of these, and discussing these as editors. The aim of this part of the course is to gain knowledge and skills relevant to writing philosophy and successful publication. The course is open to 1st and 2nd year graduate students. It will meet every other week in both the fall and the spring semesters; each semester is worth 2 credits and students are required to enroll in both. Grading will be based predominantly on participation and effort. Upper-year graduate students may audit the course by permission of the instructors, conditional on their commitment to attend and engage as full members of the class; if student numbers are high, priority with respect to presentations will be given to 1st and 2nd year students.

Credits: 2.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Instructor: Phillips, Ian B; Pickard, Hanna
Room: Gilman 288
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): n/a

Research Seminar
AS.150.825 (01)

In this course students will present drafts of Qualifying Papers and first dissertation chapters, receiving feedback from students, the instructor and other relevant faculty.

Credits: 2.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Instructor: Gross, Steven
Room: Gilman 288
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): n/a

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
AS.213.705 (01)

We will study key passages of The Phenomenology of Spirit from a queer-feminist and a literary perspective and engage with scholarship on Hegel that is pertinent to these approaches.

Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Instructor: Pahl, Katrin
Room: Gilman 479
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): n/a

Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Room	PosTag(s)	Info
AS.150.637 (01)	Self and Self-Formation in Kant and selected Post-Kantian Thinkers	W 10:00AM - 12:30PM	Staff	Gilman 288
AS.150.641 (01)	Dept Colloquium	Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM	Bledin, Justin	Gilman 288
AS.150.652 (01)	Topics in Epistemology, Language and Mind	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Holguín, Ben Walton	Gilman 288	PHIL-SEM, PHIL-MIND
AS.150.810 (01)	Independent Study		Pickard, Hanna
AS.150.810 (02)	Independent Study		Allais, Lucy
AS.150.810 (03)	Independent Study		Gross, Steven
AS.150.810 (04)	Independent Study		Moyar, Dean
AS.150.810 (05)	Independent Study		Rynasiewicz, Robert
AS.150.810 (06)	Independent Study		Lebron, Christopher Joseph
AS.150.810 (07)	Independent Study		Bok, Hilary
AS.150.810 (08)	Independent Study		Bett, Richard
AS.150.810 (09)	Independent Study		Williams, Michael
AS.150.810 (10)	Independent Study		Bledin, Justin
AS.150.810 (11)	Independent Study		Achinstein, Peter
AS.150.810 (12)	Independent Study		Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
AS.150.810 (13)	Independent Study		Taylor, Elanor J.
AS.150.810 (14)	Independent Study		Phillips, Ian B
AS.150.810 (15)	Independent Study		Holguín, Ben Walton
AS.150.810 (16)	Independent Study		Ismael, Jenann T
AS.150.810 (17)	Independent Study		Carroll, Sean Michael
AS.150.810 (18)	Independent Study		Velleman, David David
AS.150.811 (01)	Directed Study		Allais, Lucy
AS.150.811 (02)	Directed Study		Pickard, Hanna
AS.150.811 (03)	Directed Study		Gross, Steven
AS.150.811 (04)	Directed Study		Moyar, Dean
AS.150.811 (05)	Directed Study		Rynasiewicz, Robert
AS.150.811 (06)	Directed Study		Lebron, Christopher Joseph
AS.150.811 (07)	Directed Study		Bok, Hilary
AS.150.811 (08)	Directed Study		Bett, Richard
AS.150.811 (09)	Directed Study		Williams, Michael
AS.150.811 (10)	Directed Study		Bledin, Justin
AS.150.811 (11)	Directed Study		Achinstein, Peter
AS.150.811 (12)	Directed Study		Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
AS.150.811 (13)	Directed Study		Taylor, Elanor J.
AS.150.811 (14)	Directed Study		Phillips, Ian B
AS.150.811 (15)	Directed Study		Holguín, Ben Walton
AS.150.811 (16)	Directed Study		Ismael, Jenann T
AS.150.811 (17)	Directed Study		Carroll, Sean Michael
AS.150.811 (18)	Directed Study		Velleman, David David
AS.150.812 (01)	Directed Study		Pickard, Hanna
AS.150.812 (02)	Directed Study		Allais, Lucy
AS.150.812 (03)	Directed Study		Gross, Steven
AS.150.812 (04)	Directed Study		Moyar, Dean
AS.150.812 (05)	Directed Study		Rynasiewicz, Robert
AS.150.812 (06)	Directed Study		Lebron, Christopher Joseph
AS.150.812 (07)	Directed Study		Bok, Hilary
AS.150.812 (08)	Directed Study		Bett, Richard
AS.150.812 (09)	Directed Study		Williams, Michael
AS.150.812 (10)	Directed Study		Bledin, Justin
AS.150.812 (11)	Directed Study		Achinstein, Peter
AS.150.812 (12)	Directed Study		Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan
AS.150.812 (13)	Directed Study		Taylor, Elanor J.
AS.150.812 (14)	Directed Study		Phillips, Ian B
AS.150.812 (15)	Directed Study		Kosch, Michelle
AS.150.823 (01)	READINGS AND SKILLS IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY II	T 4:00PM - 6:00PM	Phillips, Ian B; Pickard, Hanna	Gilman 288
AS.150.825 (01)	Research Seminar	T 4:00PM - 6:00PM	Gross, Steven	Gilman 288
AS.213.705 (01)	Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit	T 1:30PM - 3:30PM	Pahl, Katrin	Gilman 479