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Graduate Courses Previously Offered

Winter Term, 2010

  • Philosophy of Time (J. Thorp; History or M&E)
  • Will: Aristotle to Aquinas (K. Nielsen; History or Value Theory)
  • Consolations of Philosophy (J. Miller; History)
  • Problems in Metaethics (E. Hurley; Value Theory)
  • Politics Phil. in 17th Cent. Eng. (D. Klimchuk; History or Value Theory)
  • Rights Based Liberalism (S. Brennan; Value Theory)
  • 20th Cent. Phil. of Science (K. Okruhlik; Science)
  • Philosophy of Applied Math (R. Batterman; Science)
  • Intentionality/Theory of Ideas (B. Hill; History or M&E)
  • Philosophy and Linguistics (I. Paul & R. Stainton; M&E)
  • Late 20th Cent. Analytic Phil. (A. Botterell; M&E)
  • Philosophy of Emotion (L. Charland; M&E)
  • Environmental Philosophy (W. Myrvold; Science or Value Theory)
  • Game Theory (W. Harper; Science or Value Theory)
  • Justice and Democracy (C. Jones; Value Theory)

Fall Term, 2009

  • Aristotelian Skepticism (H. Lagerlund; History)
  • Re-Reasoning Ethics (B. Hoffmaster; Value Theory)
  • Democracy and Judicial Review (M. Milde; Value Theory)
  • Philosophy of Perception (J. Nicholas; Science or M&E)
  • Philosophy of Physics (C. Smeenk; Science)
  • Newton's Universal Gravitation (W. Harper; Science)
  • Philosophy of Mathematics (J. Bell; Science)
  • 21st Cent. Philosophy of Mind (C. Viger; Science or M&E)
  • Metaphysics: Leibniz to Kant (R. DiSalle; History or M&E)
  • Transcendental Arguments (C. Dyck; History or M&E)
  • Clinical Ethics, Epistemology (C. Weijer; Value Theory or M&E)
  • Advanced Reproductive Ethics (C. McLeod; Value Theory)
  • Philosophy of Biology (G. Barker; Science)
  • Dealing with Difference (R. Vernon; Value Theory)

Winter Term, 2009

  • Problems in Aristotle's Philosophy of Science (D. Henry; History)
  • Ancient Psychology (K. Nielsen; History)
  • Dante Philosophus (J. Miller; History)
  • Sidgwick's Ethics (A. Skelton; Value Theory)
  • Toleration and its Critics (D. Klimchuk & R. Vernon; Value Theory)
  • Emergence (R. Batterman; Science)
  • Topics in Philosophy of Perception (J. Nicholas; Science or M&E)
  • Gravitation 1: Einstein (R. Valluri; Science)
  • Philosophy of Mathematics (J. Bell; Science)
  • Semantics (R. Stainton; M&E)
  • Topics in Bioethics (C. Weijer; Value Theory)
  • Hannah Arendt in Context (H. Fielding; Value Theory)
  • Research Seminar (W. Harper; Research)

Fall Term, 2008

  • Aristotle's de Anima (J. Thorp; History)
  • Berkeley (T. Lennon, History)
  • Oppression and Responsibility (T. Isaacs; Value Theory)
  • Teleology, Intentionality, and Normativity (G. Barker; Science or M&E)
  • Explanation and Evidence (C. Smeenk; Science)
  • Gravitation 1: Newton's Principia (W. Harper; Science)
  • Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (W. Myrvold; Science)
  • Kant & the Philosophy of Mind (C. Dyck; History or M&E)
  • Feminist Ethics & Political Philosophy (S. Brennan; Value Theory)
  • John Buridan on Metaphysics, Mind & Language (H. Lagerlund; History or M&E)
  • Empiricism Through the Ages (B. Hill; History or M&E)

Winter Term, 2008

  • The Ontological Argument (J. Miller; History)
  • Epicureanism in Early Modern (B. Hill; History or M&E)
  • Conscience & Conscientious Refusal (C. McLeod; M&E or VT)
  • The Rule of Law (D. Klimchuk; Value Theory)
  • History of Emotions: Plato to Descartes (H. Lagerlund; History)
  • The Continuous, the Discrete, and the Infinitesimal (J. Bell; Science)
  • Analytic Philosophy (Mathematics) (W. Demopoulos; Science)
  • Foundations of Relativity Theory (C. Smeenk; Science)
  • Philosophy of Psychiatry (L. Charland; Value Theory)
  • Mathematical Idealizations in Physics (R. Batterman; Science)
  • Research Seminar (W. Harper; Research)

Fall Term, 2007

  • Philosophy of Mathematics (J. Bell; Science)
  • Phenomenology (H. Fielding; M&E)
  • The Clarke / Collins Debate (L. Falkenstein; History)
  • Plato's Epistemology (D. Henry; History or M&E)
  • Kant (C. Dyck; History)
  • Re-reasoning Ethics (B. Hoffmaster; Value Theory)
  • 20th Century Value Theory (A. Skelton; History or VT)
  • Consciousness and Reduction (A. Marras; M&E)
  • Conditionals (W. Harper; Science)
  • Descartes (B. Hill; History)
  • Foundations of Modern Physics (R. DiSalle; Science)

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