PHILOSOPHY: COURSE DESCRIPTIONS GROUP A In a given academic year at least one course will be offered which will deal with a certain problem or set of problems of concern to contemporary philosophers in the following areas: 34-520. Ethical Theory 34-521. Political Philosophy 34-525. Topics in Practical and Applied Ethics 34-540. Philosophy of Religion 34-541. Philosophy of Science 34-544. Aesthetics 34-550. Epistemology 35-551. Metaphysics 34-552. Philosophy of Mind 34-561. Theory of Argument 34-562. Theory of Informal Fallacies 34-563. Theory and Teaching of Critical Thinking 34-565. to 34-569. Advanced Seminar: Selected Topics in Philosophy GROUP B In a given academic year there will be an intensive study of a philosopher or philosophical issue from one or more of the following periods: 34-570. Greek Philosophy 34-573. Seventeenth-Century Philosophy 34-574. Eighteenth-Century Philosophy 34-575. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy 34-576. Foundations of Existentialism 34-577. Twentieth-Century Continent-Philosophy 34-578. Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Philosophy 34-580. to 34-584. Advanced Seminar: Selected Topics in the History of Philosophy GROUP C The following course must be taken by all M.A. students: 34-590. Departmental Seminar: The History of Philosophy in Perspective The aim of the seminar is to deepen students' sensitivity to the history of philosophy and help prepare them for the Master's examination in Philosophy. Each year a specific philosophical theme is traced through a number of key figures in the history of thought. GROUP D 34-796. Major Paper 34-797. Thesis Note: Students may receive credit for more than one course offered in Groups A and B provided that the emphasis is sufficiently different. Thus, for example, credit may be received for both "34-570 Greek Philosophy: Plato" and "34-570 Greek Philosophy: Aristotle" where these are entirely distinct course offerings.