Philosophy Major Concentration (B.A.)
36 credits · Faculty of Arts · 2026-2027 catalogue
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Required Course (3 credits)
- PHIL 210 Introduction to Deductive Logic 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
Complementary Courses (33 credits)
33 credits, of which no more than 9 may be at the 200 level and at least 9 must be at the 400 or 500 level, distributed as follows: 18 credits from Groups A, B, C, D, E, and F: 3 credits from Group A 3 credits from Group B 6 credits, two courses from either Group C or Group D 3 credits from Group E 3 credits from Group F 15 additional credits from Groups A, B, C, D, E or F or from other Philosophy (PHIL) courses. Only one of PHIL 200 Introduction to Philosophy 1. or PHIL 201 Introduction to Philosophy 2. may be included in the program.
Group A (3 credits)
3 credits from:
- PHIL 306 Philosophy of Mind (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHIL 310 Intermediate Logic (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 311 Philosophy of Mathematics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 341 Philosophy of Science 1 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHIL 411 Topics in Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHIL 415 Philosophy of Language (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHIL 419 Epistemology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 421 Metaphysics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHIL 441 Philosophy of Science 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 470 Topics in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Group B (3 credits)
3 credits from:
Group C (6 credits)
6 credits (two courses) from Group C OR Group D:
Group D
- PHIL 360 17th Century Philosophy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHIL 361 18th Century Philosophy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 366 18th and Early 19th Century German Philosophy (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHIL 367 19th Century Philosophy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 444 Early Modern Political Theory (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHIL 445 19th Century Political Theory (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Group E (3 credits)
3 credits from:
Group F (3 credits)
3 credits from:
- PHIL 334 Ethical Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 343 Biomedical Ethics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHIL 348 Philosophy of Law 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHIL 427 Topics in Critical Philosophy of Race (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 434 Metaethics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHIL 442 Topics in Feminist Theory (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Group C
- PHIL 344 Medieval and Renaissance Political Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 345 Greek Political Theory (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHIL 350 History and Philosophy of Ancient Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHIL 353 The Presocratic Philosophers (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHIL 354 Plato (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 355 Aristotle (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 356 Early Medieval Philosophy (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHIL 452 Later Greek Philosophy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHIL 453 Ancient Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHIL 454 Ancient Moral Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
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