Graduate Courses

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Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Additional Details
AS.150.687 (01)	Philosophies of History	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Moyar, Dean	Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: Is there a purpose to history? Under what descriptions does history make sense? This course will examine the idea of philosophy of history as it arose in classic German philosophy (esp. Kant and Hegel) and was transformed by radical thinkers in reaction to that original program (Marx, Nietzsche). The last part of the course will examine twentieth century philosophies of history, including those of Spengler, Toynbee, Koselleck, and Fukuyama. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/8 Tags: PHIL-MODERN, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.682 (01)	Food Ethics	M 5:30PM - 8:00PM	Barnhill, Anne	Smokler Center 213	Spring 2026	Description: Eating is an essential human activity: we need to eat to survive. But how should we eat? In this course, we consider such ethical questions as: Is it morally wrong to make animals suffer and to kill them in order to eat them? What is the extent of hunger and food insecurity, in this country and globally, and what should we as individuals do about it? Should the government try to influence our food choices, to make them healthier? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/2 Tags: PHIL-BIOETH, PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.695 (01)	Formal Methods of Philosophy	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Bledin, Justin	Ames 218	Spring 2026	Description: For better or for worse (and we think better), during the last century or so, philosophy has become infused with logic. Logic informs nearly every area of philosophy; it is part of our shared language and knowledge base. Vast segments of literature, especially in contemporary analytic philosophy, presuppose basic competence in logic and a familiarity with associated formal methods, particularly set theoretical. The standard philosophy curriculum should therefore guarantee a minimum level of logic literacy, thus enabling students to read the literature without it seeming like an impenetrable foreign tongue. This course is an introductory survey of the formal methods that a contemporary philosopher should be familiar with. It is not mathematically demanding in the way that more advanced courses in metalogic and specialized topics may be. The emphasis is on basic comprehension, not on mathematical virtuosity. The course is offered at two levels: a 200-level version and a more advanced 400/600-level option. All students will attend the same lectures and engage with the same core material, but the assignments and exams at the 400/600 level will be more challenging. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/5 Tags: PHIL-LOGSCI
AS.150.683 (01)	Philosophy of Grief	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Wonderly, Monique Lisa	Gilman 288	Spring 2026	Description: In this seminar, we will explore contemporary accounts of the nature and normativity of grief. We will consider grief’s psychological structure, its impact on human agency, and its value and norms. Though we will focus on philosophical treatments of these issues, we may also engage with relevant research in psychology, neuroscience, and AI technology. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: PHIL-ETHICS, PHIL-MIND
AS.150.689 (01)	Philosophy of Space and Time	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Rynasiewicz, Robert Alan	Gilman 288	Spring 2026	Description: Is space an entity that exists independently of matter (substantivalism), or is it only an abstraction from spatial relations between bodies (relationism)? Is there a lapse of time even when nothing changes, or is time only a measure of motion? Are motion and rest contrary properties or states of a body, or are there only changes in the positions of bodies relative to one another? Philosophers and physicists have disputed these questions from antiquity to the present day. We survey the arguments and attempt to find a resolution. But there are further questions. What is the significance of incongruent counterparts (left hands vs. right hands)? Is there a fact of the matter as to the geometry of space (flat, hyperbolic or elliptical), or as to whether space-like separated events occur at the same time? What is the principle of relativity? Does Einstein’s theory have consequences for the substantivalist/relationist debate? What is the status of spacetime in current physics and cosmology? Why does time but not space have a “direction”? Are past, present and future objective features of reality, or are they merely “stubborn illusions”? Does time flow? If not, how do we account for our sense of the passage of time? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/5 Tags: PHIL-LOGSCI
AS.150.641 (01)	Dept Colloquium	Th 4:15PM - 6:15PM	Achinstein, Peter; Bledin, Justin	Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: Presentations by invited speakers. Credits: 1.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/30 Tags: n/a
AS.150.690 (01)	Kant's Critique of Pure Reason	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Allais, Lucy	Gilman 288	Spring 2026	Description: This course is an introduction to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, focused on the first seminal work from his most productive (‘critical’ period), The Critique of Pure Reason. We will look at his criticisms of traditional metaphysics, his account of what drives us to search for metaphysical answers, and his account of how metaphysics could be possible, the nature of space and time, substance and causation, and his account of the metaphysics of human freedom. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/5 Tags: PHIL-MODERN
AS.150.600 (01)	Greek Philosophy: Plato and His Predecessors	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Bett, Richard	Gilman 288	Spring 2026	Description: A study of pre-Socratic philosophers, especially those to whom Plato reacted; also an examination of major dialogues of Plato with emphasis upon his principal theses and characteristic methods. Cross-listed with Classics. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/5 Tags: PHIL-ANCIEN
AS.150.621 (01)	Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Green, E. J.; Westfall, Mason	Gilman 288	Spring 2026	Description: An exploration of a variety of advanced topics in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 11/15 Tags: n/a
AS.150.653 (01)	Seminar: Philosophy of Physics	Th 9:15AM - 11:45AM	Rynasiewicz, Robert Alan	Gilman 35	Spring 2026	Description: Dualities occur in logic, math, and physics but their nature is not well understood. Thus, it is hard to say in the abstract what a duality is. Suffice it to say that if Y is the dual of X, then in reasoning about Y it suffices to reason about X. However, it is not clear that the concept of duality is univocal across disciplines or even within a discipline. The task at hand is to define it if it is univocal, or, if it is not, to catalogue the various senses. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 12/15 Tags: PHIL-LOGSCI
AS.150.685 (01)	Ethics In The Dungeon	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Lebron, Christopher Joseph	Shriver Hall Board Room	Spring 2026	Description: This course explores the role of imagination and communication in ethics through a combination of readings and D&D roleplaying. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 3/3 Tags: PHIL-ETHICS
AS.150.810 (01)	Independent Study		Allais, Lucy		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (02)	Independent Study		Pickard, Hanna		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (03)	Independent Study		Gross, Steven		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (04)	Independent Study		Moyar, Dean		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (08)	Independent Study		Bett, Richard		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (09)	Independent Study		Williams, Michael		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (10)	Independent Study		Bledin, Justin		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (11)	Independent Study		Achinstein, Peter		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (12)	Independent Study		Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (13)	Independent Study		Taylor, Elanor Jane		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (14)	Independent Study		Phillips, Ian B		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (15)	Independent Study		Holguín, Ben		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (16)	Independent Study		Ismael, Jenann T		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (18)	Independent Study		Velleman, James David		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (20)	Independent Study		Kraus, Katharina Teresa		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (17)	Independent Study		Carroll, Sean Michael		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (19)	Independent Study		Connolly, Patrick		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (22)	Independent Study		Green, E. J.		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (23)	Independent Study		Wonderly, Monique Lisa		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (21)	Independent Study		Goodman, Jeremy		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (03)	Directed Study		Gross, Steven		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (01)	Directed Study		Allais, Lucy		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (05)	Directed Study		Rynasiewicz, Robert Alan		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (02)	Directed Study		Pickard, Hanna		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (06)	Directed Study		Lebron, Christopher Joseph		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (04)	Directed Study		Moyar, Dean		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (08)	Directed Study		Bett, Richard		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (09)	Directed Study		Williams, Michael		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (10)	Directed Study		Bledin, Justin		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (11)	Directed Study		Achinstein, Peter		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (12)	Directed Study		Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (07)	Directed Study		Dong, Hao		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (15)	Directed Study		Holguín, Ben		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (16)	Directed Study		Ismael, Jenann T		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (13)	Directed Study		Taylor, Elanor Jane		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (14)	Directed Study		Phillips, Ian B		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (05)	Independent Study		Rynasiewicz, Robert Alan		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (06)	Independent Study		Lebron, Christopher Joseph		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (07)	Independent Study		Dong, Hao		Spring 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (22)	Directed Study		Green, E. J.		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (20)	Directed Study		Kraus, Katharina Teresa		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (21)	Directed Study		Goodman, Jeremy		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (17)	Directed Study		Carroll, Sean Michael		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (19)	Directed Study		Connolly, Patrick		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (18)	Directed Study		Velleman, James David		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.815 (01)	TA Practicum		Bledin, Justin		Spring 2026	Description: This course is to develop essential teaching skills. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 13/20 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (23)	Directed Study		Wonderly, Monique Lisa		Spring 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.823 (01)	Readings and Skills in Contemporary Philosophy II	T 4:00PM - 6:00PM	Phillips, Ian B; Pickard, Hanna	Gilman 288	Spring 2026	Description: 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 Status: Closed Seats Available: 14/20 Tags: n/a
AS.150.825 (01)	Research Seminar	T 4:00PM - 6:00PM	Gross, Steven	Gilman 288	Spring 2026	Description: 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 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/12 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (02)	Summer Research		Pickard, Hanna		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (03)	Summer Research		Gross, Steven		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (01)	Summer Research		Allais, Lucy		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (04)	Summer Research		Moyar, Dean		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (07)	Summer Research		Bok, Hilary		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (09)	Summer Research		Williams, Michael		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (06)	Summer Research		Lebron, Christopher Joseph		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (10)	Summer Research		Bledin, Justin		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (13)	Summer Research		Taylor, Elanor Jane		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (12)	Summer Research		Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (14)	Summer Research		Phillips, Ian B		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (16)	Summer Research		Ismael, Jenann T		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (19)	Summer Research		Connolly, Patrick		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (22)	Summer Research		Green, E. J.		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (21)	Summer Research		Goodman, Jeremy		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (20)	Summer Research		Kraus, Katharina Teresa		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (18)	Summer Research		Velleman, James David		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (23)	Summer Research		Wonderly, Monique Lisa		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (17)	Summer Research		Carroll, Sean Michael		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.638 (01)	Graduate Seminar: Analytic Foundations	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Goodman, Jeremy	Gilman 288	Fall 2026	Description: This seminar will cover foundational work in the analytic tradition, from Frege and Russell to Kripke, Lewis, and their contemporaries. While the course will have a historical component, its primary goal is methodological: to familiarize students with discoveries and distinctions that have become an essential part of the working philosopher's toolkit. Topics will include: intensionality, quantification, and their interaction; context-sensitivity, vagueness, and opacity; semantics, meta-semantics, and pragmatics; naturalness, analysis, and resisting skepticism. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 14/15 Tags: n/a
AS.150.636 (01)	Graduate Seminar: The Social Turn	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Taylor, Elanor Jane		Fall 2026	Description: Recently a "social turn" has become evident in LLEM - Language, Logic, Epistemology, and Metaphysics. This upper level seminar will explore recent literature from the social turn. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/15 Tags: n/a
AS.150.620 (01)	Mathematical Logic I	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rynasiewicz, Robert Alan	Gilman 288	Fall 2026	Description: Mathematical Logic I (H,Q) is the first semester of a year long course studying the logical methods used in mathematical reasoning. The first semester explores the construction of formal languages in which to cast mathematical discourse, introduces systems of proof for deriving propositions from assumptions, and develops a formal semantics that provides a precise criterion of logical consequence. We expect a system of proof to allow the derivation only of propositions that are logical consequences of the assumptions (soundness). A principal result establishes the converse: these systems of proof are such that any logical consequence is derivable (completeness). This provides us with a purely mathematical characterization of logic within which mathematical theories can be formulated and their properties studied (decidability, axiomatizability, consistency, completeness), a pursuit commonly known as metamathematics. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.641 (01)	Dept Colloquium	Th 4:30PM - 6:30PM	Bledin, Justin	Gilman 132	Fall 2026	Description: Presentations by invited speakers. Credits: 1.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 44/50 Tags: n/a
AS.150.614 (01)	Philosophy of Disability	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Staff	Krieger Laverty	Fall 2026	Description: What is disability? Philosophy long treated the answer as obvious: disability was misfortune, a limit case against which theories of the good life could be tested. That confidence has not survived. Beginning with the disability rights movement, activists recast disability as a product of social arrangements rather than a fact about bodies; philosophers took up, refined, and contested that claim; and disabled philosophers turned the discipline's own methods on assumptions it had never thought to defend — that disability makes life worse, that personhood follows cognitive capacity, that the philosopher is nondisabled by default. This course is an introduction to that argument. Each unit opens with foundational texts that gave the field its terms and central debates, then turns to feminist, queer, crip, Black, decolonial, and non-Western scholarship that calls those terms into question. The readings in a given week will often disagree; that is by design. We begin with conceptual foundations — the nature of disability, well-being, personhood, justice — and end with questions medicine cannot avoid: prenatal testing, cure, neurodiversity, rationing, and medical aid in dying. Throughout, disabled thinkers appear not as subjects of these debates but as parties to them. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.653 (01)	Graduate Seminar: Philosophy of Physics	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ismael, Jenann T	Gilman 288	Fall 2026	Description: This seminar examines how self-reference—the fact that we represent the universe from within it—transforms foundational questions in philosophy of physics. Organized around draft chapters of a book in progress, the course explores what happens when Laplacean determinism confronts Gödelian limits: How does our embeddedness in the physical world reshape our understanding of prediction, time, determinism, and totality? Topics include the paradox of predictability, the arrow(s) of time, Newcomb's problem, quantum mechanics, and the concept of the universe as absolute totality. Readings draw from physics, logic, and formal epistemology. The seminar is discussion-based. Students will lead presentations on assigned readings and draft chapters. There are no pre-requisites, but students must be comfortable with formalism and willing to engage technical material in physics and logic. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/15 Tags: n/a
AS.150.691 (01)	Readings in Medieval Hebrew Philosophy	W 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan	Gilman 288	Fall 2026	Description: The class is a study of medieval Hebrew philosophical texts in the original Hebrew (knowledge of at least two years of college Hebrew is required). We will read works by Maimonides, Gersonides, Crescas, and others. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (01)	Independent Study		Allais, Lucy		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.686 (01)	Spinoza on the Good Life, Salvation and Eternity	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan	Gilman 288	Fall 2026	Description: The class will study Parts IV and V of Spinoza's Ethics in which he develops some of his most reknown doctrines such as mind eternity and divine intellectual love. The first month will be dedicated to an overview of the first three parts of the Ethics. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 1/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.670 (01)	Philosophical Naturalism	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Carroll, Sean Michael	Gilman 288	Fall 2026	Description: Naturalism, in the philosophical sense, is the claim that the natural world is the entire world -- there is no need for anything supernatural or non-natural in our best understanding of reality. This course will discuss varieties of philosophical naturalism as well as the related notions of materialism and physicalism. We will investigate challenges to naturalism from a variety of sources -- the origin of the universe, the origin of life, consciousness, morality, and meaning -- and how they might be overcome. We will also touch on the ontological status of mathematical objects, laws of physics, and other worlds. The course is aimed at students with some background in philosophy. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (02)	Independent Study		Pickard, Hanna		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (04)	Independent Study		Moyar, Dean		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (03)	Independent Study		Gross, Steven		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (09)	Independent Study		Williams, Michael		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (05)	Independent Study		Rynasiewicz, Robert Alan		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (06)	Independent Study		Lebron, Christopher Joseph		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (08)	Independent Study		Bett, Richard		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (10)	Independent Study		Bledin, Justin		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (12)	Independent Study		Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (13)	Independent Study		Taylor, Elanor Jane		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (17)	Independent Study		Carroll, Sean Michael		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (16)	Independent Study		Ismael, Jenann T		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (20)	Independent Study		Kraus, Katharina Teresa		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (14)	Independent Study		Phillips, Ian B		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (22)	Independent Study		Green, E. J.		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (06)	Directed Study		Lebron, Christopher Joseph		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (05)	Directed Study		Rynasiewicz, Robert Alan		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (23)	Independent Study		Wonderly, Monique Lisa		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (08)	Directed Study		Bett, Richard		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (02)	Directed Study		Pickard, Hanna		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (03)	Directed Study		Gross, Steven		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (14)	Directed Study		Phillips, Ian B		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (07)	Directed Study		Dong, Hao		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (09)	Directed Study		Williams, Michael		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (04)	Directed Study		Moyar, Dean		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 3/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (10)	Directed Study		Bledin, Justin		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (15)	Directed Study		Holguín, Ben		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (13)	Directed Study		Taylor, Elanor Jane		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (12)	Directed Study		Melamed, Yitzhak Yohanan		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (01)	Directed Study		Allais, Lucy		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (08)	Summer Research		Bett, Richard		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (05)	Summer Research		Rynasiewicz, Robert Alan		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.850 (15)	Summer Research		Holguín, Ben		Summer 2026	Description: Students research and develop their dissertation topic. Credits: 6.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (19)	Independent Study		Connolly, Patrick		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (07)	Independent Study		Dong, Hao		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (15)	Independent Study		Holguín, Ben		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (16)	Directed Study		Ismael, Jenann T		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.810 (21)	Independent Study		Goodman, Jeremy		Fall 2026	Description: By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (17)	Directed Study		Carroll, Sean Michael		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (20)	Directed Study		Kraus, Katharina Teresa		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (19)	Directed Study		Connolly, Patrick		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (23)	Directed Study		Wonderly, Monique Lisa		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.815 (01)	TA Practicum		Bledin, Justin		Fall 2026	Description: This course is to develop essential teaching skills. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/15 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (22)	Directed Study		Green, E. J.		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.811 (21)	Directed Study		Goodman, Jeremy		Fall 2026	Description: Please see AS.150.810 for section numbers to use when registering. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.150.824 (01)	Research Seminar	T 4:00PM - 6:00PM	Gross, Steven	Gilman 288	Fall 2026	Description: For 3rd and 4th year Philosophy graduate students working on their Qualifying Papers and Dissertation Proposals. Meets every other week. Credits: 2.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: n/a
AS.150.822 (01)	Readings and Skills in Contemporary Philosophy Part I	T 4:00PM - 6:00PM	Phillips, Ian B; Pickard, Hanna	Gilman 288	Fall 2026	Description: This course provides skills training for a successful career in philosophy, through engagement with 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. As a class, we will then engage in a mock review process, crafting anonymous referee reports, revising replies in the light of these, and writing letters to the editor explaining the revisions. The aim of this part of the course is to gain knowledge and skills relevant to writing philosophy and successful publication. This course is STRICTLY limited to 1st and 2nd year Philosophy PhD Students ONLY. 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 Credits: 2.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 13/15 Tags: n/a