21.3 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 Continental Philosophy34-578. 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.