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PHIL 425:Long Essay

A student who intends to write a long essay in classics must have taken the course CLAS 420 in Research Methods, whose principles they are to apply in critical reflections on perennial human issues in Greek or Roman studies. The research topic is to be...

PHIL 424:Topics in Philosophy of Mathematics

Examines the early debates about the nature of sets, the ontology of number, rudiments of Cantor’s transfinite set theory and notions of infinity, Hilbert’s formalism and the development of meta-mathematic at the end of the 19th century,...

PHIL 423:Topics in Philosophical Logic

Varied issues in this broad literature may be canvassed: truth and negation, classical and intuitionistic interpretations of the law of bivalence, many-valued logics, logical deviancy, modal logic, meaning and necessity, the semantics and syntax of ontology,...

PHIL 422:Medieval Philosophy

A study of period themes in Scholastic works from Augustine to William of Ockham with emphasis on Augustine’s Christian and Neo-Platonic synthesis, and the theologian philosophers of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
 
 
 

PHIL 421:Philosophy of Development

Critical analysis of policies set by the United Nations, international agencies, and multi-lateral organisations based on competing definitions of human well-being. Considers the roles of economics and culture in the measurement of social progress. Evaluates...

PHIL 420:Research Methods

The specific objective of this course is to equip the student with an ability to do and present independent research work. The course falls into two complementary parts. The first addresses the issue of thesis preparation; the second part is a lesson in...

PHIL 419:Philosophy of Language

Studies of the nature of meaning and intentionality, the interpretation of speech, belief, and reality, theories of reference, the semantic theory of truth and its adversaries, the metaphysical preconditions of language acquisition and participation, non-...

PHIL 418:Ethics and International Affairs

Topics include social responsibility for multinational corporations, accelerating debates concerning the legitimacy of international law and the cogency of international human rights, the ethics of international intervention, cross-border peace-keeping and...

PHIL 417:Contemporary Issues in Philosophy

An occasional syllabus determined by current research focus of permanent faculty members or our visiting scholars, offered under the discretion of the department faculty.
 

PHIL 416:Selected Author/Text

Option to pursue a specific author or text in greater depth and scope than the standard term-length undergraduate syllabi allow. Available in both semesters to facilitate a sustained study.  Offered only according to the discretion of the department...

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