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Year at a Glance Courses 2025-2026

Schedule of Philosophy course by quarter for the 2025-2026 annual school year
Course Fall 2025 Winter 2026 Spring 2026
Lower
Division		 1. Intro to Philosophy
G. Sher		 1. Intro to Philosophy
TBD

1. Intro to Philosophy   TBD
10. Introduction to Logic
J. Carr		 10. Introduction to Logic
J. Carr

10. Introduction to Logic
J. Carr
12. Scientific Reasoning
M. Harrell		 12. Scientific Reasoning
K. McKenzie
13. Introduction to Phil. Ethics
A. Lamey		 13. Introduction to Phil. Ethics
TBD		 14. The Nature of Reality
J. Cohen
25. Science, Philosophy, and the Big Questions
E. Chen		 24. Science and Pseudoscience
C. Callender
27. Ethics and Society
R. Brandt		 27. Ethics and Society
A. Lamey		 27. Ethics and Society
TBD
28. Ethics and Society II
D. Brink		 28. Ethics and Society II
S. Bazargan-Forward		 28. Ethics and Society II
A. Lamey
35. Philosophy in the Americas
M. Vargas

31. Intro. Ancient Philosophy
P. Marechal

 35. Philosophy in the Americas
C. Tolley
50. Law and Society
D. Nelkin		 33. Philosophy between Reason and Despair
M. Hardimon		 50. Law and Society
Y. Yuan
65. Language and Power
R. Rudolph		 60. Philosophy of Love and Sex
P. Marechal		 51. Climate Ethics
K. Kovaka
History of
Philosophy

110. History of Philosophy, Ancient
C. Shields

 111. History of Philosophy, Early Modern
E. Watkins		 112. History of Philosophy, Late Modern
C. Tolley
Logic 120. Symbolic Logic
A. Kocurek		 120. Symbolic Logic
S. Rickless
Moral and
Political

166. Classics in Political Philosophy
A. Lamey

 160. Ethical Theory
Y. Yuan		 167. Contemporary Political Philosophy
Y. Yuan
  161. Topics in the History of Ethics
D. Brink
Epistemology
& Metaphysics

143. Philosophy of Perception
J. Cohen

 132. Epistemology
G. Sher
Science 149. Philosophy of Psychology
M. Fulkerson		 152. Philosophy of Social Science
N. Cartwright		 145. Philosophy of Science
K. Kovaka
146. Philosophy of Physics
C. Callender
Upper
Division
Electives		 125. Probability and Decision Theory
J. Carr

100. Plato
C. Shields

101. Aristotle
P. Marechal
138. Responsibility
D. Brink		 122. Advanced Topics in Logic
G. Sher

102. Hellenistic Philosophy
P. Marechal
148. Philosophy and the Environment
C. Callender		 137. Moral Psychology
M. Fulkerson

107. Hegel
M. Hardimon
158. Topics in Chinese Philosophy
E. Chen		 156. Latinx Philosophy
M. Vargas

141. The Meaning of Life
S. Rickless
180. Phenomenology
M. Hardimon		 162. Contemporary Moral Problems
R. Brandt

142. Philosophy of Emotion
M. Fulkerson

189. Applied Ethics     (Ethics Bowl) 
R. Brandt

163. Bioethics
R. Brandt

153. Philosophy and Animals
A. Lamey

168. Philosophy of Law
S. Bazargan-Forward

173. Topics in Bioethics
D. Nelkin
170. Philosophy and Race
M. Hardimon

174. Data Ethics
R. Brandt
177. Philosophy and Literature
A. Lamey
185. Philosophy of Religion
C. Shields
Methods

115. Philosophical Methods Seminar
D. Nelkin
Colleges
Graduate
Seminars		 200. Proseminar
K. Kovaka		 215. Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
C. Tolley		 220. Agency, Resp., Freedom
D. Nelkin and D. Brink
201A. Core Course in History
C. Shields		 245. Philosophy of Science
N. Cartwright

232. Epistemology
G. Sher

209A. Introduction to Science Studies Part I
K. McKenzie

 256. Latin American Philosophy
M. Vargas		 236. Philosophy of Mind
M. Fulkerson

222. Philosophy of Logic
A. Kocurek 

 267. Political Philosophy
Y. Yuan		 263. Bioethics
R. Brandt

260. Ethics
S. Bazargan-Forward

Updated. July 2025