Spring 2026 Courses
Visit the Schedule of Classes for course schedules, instructors, locations, credits and other details.
Visit the Graduate Bulletin and Undergraduate Bulletin for a full list of Philosophy courses and their descriptions.
Below, we provide further elaboration on our offerings, describing what particular topics or approaches instructors will focus on during a semester.
Additional Information on Spring 2026 Graduate Courses
Additional Information on Spring 2026 Graduate Courses
Please visit the Graduate Bulletin for course descriptions. The notes included below provide additional information on a course's topics and/or approaches for Spring 2026.
- APHI 516: Philosophy of Mind
- Notes on Topics and/or Approaches: An examination of the modern version of the traditional mind-body problem and issues connected with it. Topics to be covered will include varieties of dualism and materialism, the problem of mental causation, reductionism and the mind-body problem, the relevance of various kinds of scientific theorizing about mind to the traditional mind-body problem, and some puzzles concerning qualia, embeddedness, and intentionality, the explanatory gap, and subjectivity.
- Notes on Topics and/or Approaches: An examination of the modern version of the traditional mind-body problem and issues connected with it. Topics to be covered will include varieties of dualism and materialism, the problem of mental causation, reductionism and the mind-body problem, the relevance of various kinds of scientific theorizing about mind to the traditional mind-body problem, and some puzzles concerning qualia, embeddedness, and intentionality, the explanatory gap, and subjectivity.
- APHI 538: Philosophy of Social Sciences
- APHI 552: Aristotle’s Ethics
- Notes on Topics and/or Approaches: This course is an in-depth survey of Aristotle’s ethical theory, focusing on the Nicomachean Ethics. We will pay special attention to how Aristotle fits into the “rationalist” ethical tradition inaugurated by Socrates and continued by Aristotle’s teacher Plato. Along the way students will work on developing the (valuable and transferable) skills needed to do research in the history of philosophy, culminating in a term paper that engages fruitfully with the scholarly literature.
- Notes on Topics and/or Approaches: This course is an in-depth survey of Aristotle’s ethical theory, focusing on the Nicomachean Ethics. We will pay special attention to how Aristotle fits into the “rationalist” ethical tradition inaugurated by Socrates and continued by Aristotle’s teacher Plato. Along the way students will work on developing the (valuable and transferable) skills needed to do research in the history of philosophy, culminating in a term paper that engages fruitfully with the scholarly literature.
- APHI 574: Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy
- Notes on Topics and/or Approaches: Shared resources with APHI 474.
Courses from Previous Semesters
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