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Year at a Glance Courses 2026-2027

Schedule of Philosophy courses by quarter for the 2026-2027 annual school year
Course Fall 2026 Winter 2027 Spring 2027
Lower
Division

1. Intro to Philosophy
A. Kocurek

 1. Intro to Philosophy
D. Vargas		 1. Intro to Philosophy
G. Sher
10. Introduction to Logic
J. Carr		 10. Introduction to Logic
R. Rudolph		 10. Introduction to Logic
A. Kocurek
12. Scientific Reasoning
K. McKenzie		 12. Scientific Reasoning
K. McKenzie
13. Intro to Phil. Ethics
A. Lamey
14. The Nature of Reality
C. Shields		 14. The Nature of Reality
J. Cohen
24. Science and Pseudoscience
C. Callender		 23. Philosophy of AI
E. Chen
27. Ethics and Society
R. Brandt		 27. Ethics and Society
R. Brandt		 27. Ethics and Society
R. Brandt

28. Ethics and Society II
A. Lamey

28. Ethics and Society II
A. Lamey

 28. Ethics and Society II
D. Nelkin

35. Philosophy of the Americas
D. Vargas

 33. Philosophy between Reason and Despair
C. Tolley		 31. Ancient Philosophy
M. Johnson

50. Law and Society
Yuan

 

 

51. Climate Ethics
K. Kovaka
87. First-year Student Seminar
K. Kovaka
History of
Philosophy		 110. History of Philosophy, Ancient
M. Johnson		 111. History of Philosophy, Early Modern
E. Watkins		 112. History of Philosophy, Late Modern
M. Hardimon
Logic 120. Symbolic Logic
J. Carr		 120. Symbolic Logic
S. Rickless
Moral and
Political		 159. Metaethics
D. Brink

161. Topics in the History of Ethics
D. Brink

160. Ethical Theory
Yuan

166. History of Political Philosophy
M. Hardimon

 172. Topics in Political Philosophy
A. Lamey
Epistemology
& Metaphysics		 134. Philosophy of Language
J. Cohen		 132. Epistemology
G. Sher

130. Metaphysics
A. Kocurek
136. Philosophy of Mind
C. Shields

131. Topics in Metaphysics
E. Watkins
Science

147. Philosophy of Biology
K. Kovaka

145. Philosophy of Science
K. McKenzie

149. Philosophy of Psychology

M. Fulkerson

146. Philosophy of Physics
C. Callender
Upper
Division
Electives

142. Philosophy of Emotion
M. Fulkerson

 101. Aristotle
C. Shields

100. Plato
M. Johnson

153. Philosophy and Animals
A. Lamey

125. Probability and Decision Theory
J. Carr

108. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
C. Tolley
173. Topics in Bioethics
D. Nelkin		 137. Moral Psychology
M. Fulkerson

122. Advanced Topics in Logic
G. Sher
176. Philosophy of Culture
D. Vargas

140. Free Will
D. Nelkin

 138. Moral Responsibility
D. Vargas
189. Applied Ethics
R. Brandt		 148. Philosophy and the Environment
K. Kovaka

141. Meaning of Life
S. Rickless
162. Contemporary Moral Problems
A. Lamey		 174. Data Ethics
R. Brandt
163. Bioethics
R. Brandt
165. Freedom, Equality, and the Law
D. Brink
175. Aesthetics
C. Tolley
Methods
Colleges
Graduate
Seminars		 200. Proseminar
K. McKenzie

204A. Core Philosophy of Science
N. Cartwright

 245. Philosophy of Science
E. Chen
202. Core Ethics
D. Brink & C. Shields		 206A. Core Epistemology
J. Carr		 267. Political Philosophy
Y. Yuan
210. Greek Philosophy
M. Johnson		 234. Philosophy of Language
R. Rudolph		 285. Special Topics
M. Hardimon
220. Agency, Responsibility and Freedom
M. Fulkerson & D. Nelkin

Updated: February 2026