Graduate Courses

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Download Graduate Seminar Descriptions 2025-2026

Fall

Winter

Spring

TAKING ON THE TRADITION

PHL 411 - Plato II (Gorgias, etc.)
Just Talking: Plato's Rhetoric

Michael Naas
W 3:00-6:15 [H-I]

PHL 629 – Seminar on Contemporary Problems

The Concept of Fetishism

Rafael Vizcaino
M 3:00-6:15
[NP]

PHL 500 – Special Topics in the History of Philosophy

Cosmogony and Sexual Difference

Tuhin Bhattacharjee
T 3:00-6:15 [H-I]

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

PHL 415 – Aristotle I

Metaphysics and Politics

Sean Kirkland
T 3:00-6:15 [H-I]

PHL 657 – Topics in Social and Political Thought

Institution and Passivity in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty

Smaranda Aldea
W 3:00-6:15 [NP]

PHL 400 – Special Topics in Traditional Philosophers (Fichte)

Die Wissenschaftslehre

Elizabeth Millán-Brusslan
W 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

THE VITAL AND THE VIRTUAL

PHL 557 - Topics in Continental Philosophy (Bergson)

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Frédéric Seyler
M 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 590 – Trends in Contemporary French Philosophy (Deleuze I)

Difference and Repetition

Kevin Thompson
T 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 522 – Social and Political Philosophy (Deleuze II)

The Logic of Sense

Peg Birmingham
TH 3:00-6:15 [NP]

CONTEMPORARY GERMAN PHILOSOPHY

PHL 550 – Heidegger I

What is Called Thinking?

Will McNeill
TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 551 – Heidegger II

What is Called Thinking?

Will McNeill
TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 697 – Teaching Practicum
3rd Year Teaching Enrollment Requirement

Tuhin Bhattacharjee
TBD [NP]

Distribution Requirement Key:
H-I = History of Western PHL (Ancient or Medieval) NP = Normative Philosophy
H-II = History of Western PHL (Modern or 19th Century) CE = Contemporary European Philosophy

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Download Graduate Seminar Descriptions 2024-2025

Fall

Winter

Spring

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

PHL 410 - Plato I
The Ends of Democracy: From Plato's Republic to Derrida's Rogues

Michael Naas
M 3:00-6:15 [H-I]

PHL 400 – Special Topics in Traditional Philosophers
Plato and the Feminists

Tuhin Bhattacharjee
W 3:00-6:15
[H-I]

PHL 601 – Seminar on Aesthetics
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: From Henri Bergson to Michel Henry

Frédéric Seyler
W 3:00-6:15 [NP]

HERMENEUTICS OF SUSPICION

PHL 550 – Heidegger
Hermeneutic Phenomenology

Will McNeil
TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 557 – Topics in Continental Philosophy
Freud: From the Acropolis to the Americas

Elizabeth Rottenberg
M 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 525 – Nietzsche
Nihilism, Will to Power, and the Übermensch

Sean D. Kirkland
TH 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

PHL 657 – Topics on Social and Political Thought
Benjamin and Schmitt: On Power and Violence

Peg Birmingham
TH 3:00-6:15 [NP]

PHL 656 – Seminar on Social and Political Thought
The Ethics of Liberation

Rafael Vizcaino
T 3:00-6:15 [NP]

THE SCIENCE OF LOGIC

PHL 515 – Hegel I
The Science of Logic I

Kevin Thompson
T 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

PHL 516 – Hegel II
The Science of Logic II

Kevin Thompson
T 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

PHL 697 – Teaching Practicum
1st Year Teaching Enrollment Requirement

Rafael Vizcaino
Time TBD [NP]

Distribution Requirement Key:
H-I = History of Western PHL (Ancient or Medieval) NP = Normative Philosophy
H-II = History of Western PHL (Modern or 19th Century) CE = Contemporary European Philosophy

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Download Graduate Seminar Descriptions 2023-2024

	Fall	Winter	Spring
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY	PHL 415 - Aristotle Aristotle: On Why Natural Beings Perish? Sean D. Kirkland T 3:00-6:15 [H-I]	PHL 400 – Special Topics in Traditional Philosophers Francisco Suárez Rick Lee T 3:00-6:15 [H-I or H-II]	PHL 535 – Husserl I Phenomenology as Critique: Historicity, Normativity, Teleology and Husserl’s Personalist Ethics of Renewal Smaranda Aldea M 3:00-6:15P [CE]
ETHICS AND AESTHETICS		PHL 601 – Seminar on Aesthetics Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: From Henri Bergson to Michel Henry Frédéric Seyler M 3:00-6:15 [NP]	PHL 511 – Kant II Critique of the Power of Judgment Avery Goldman T 3:00-6:15 [H-II]
POLITICAL LIFE	PHL 411 – Plato II Plato’s Frenemies II: Rhetoric, Writing, and Poetry from the Phaedrus to the Pharmacy Michael Naas M 3:00-6:15 [H-I]	PHL 661 – Topics in Feminist Theory The Body in Feminist Thought Tuhin Bhattacharjee W 3:00-6:15 [NP]	PHL 629 – Seminar on Contemporary Problems Hannah Arendt’s Concept of the Political Peg Birmingham TH 3:00-6:15 [NP]
TRUTH AND METHOD	PHL 559 – Foucault Foucault: On Method I Kevin Thompson TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]	PHL 590 – Trends in Contemporary French Philosophy Foucault: On Method II Kevin Thompson TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]	PHL 557– Topics in Continental Philosophy Gadamer’s Truth and Method Elizabeth Millán Brusslan W 3:00-6:15 [CE]
		PHL 500 – Special Topics in the History of Philosophy Heidegger: Introduction to Philosophy Will McNeill FRI 10:00-1:30 [CE] (online)
Distribution Requirement Key: H-I = History of Western PHL (Ancient or Medieval) NP = Normative Philosophy H-II = History of Western PHL (Modern or 19th Century) CE = Contemporary European Philosophy

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Graduate Seminar Descriptions 2022-2023

Fall

Winter

Spring

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY (IN REVERSE)

PHL 515 - Hegel I

The Encyclopedia Logic

Kevin Thompson

TH 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

PHL 435 - Descartes

Richard Lee

T 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

PHL 410 - Plato I

Plato's Frenemies: Of Sophistry, Poetry, and Rhetoric

Michael Naas

T 3:00-6:15 [H-I]

PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY

PHL 515 - Nietzsche

Nietzsche on History: Tragedy, Philology, Historiography

Sean D. Kirkland

T 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

PHL 500 - Special Topics in the History of Philosophy

Nietzsche as History: Bataille, Foucault, Derrida, Irigaray, etc.

Sean D. Kirkland

M 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

PHL 557 - Topics in Continental Philosophy

Phenomenology and the Body

Mary Jeanne Larrabee

M 3:00-6:15 [CE]

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

PHL 661 - Topics in Feminist Theory

Singularity, Vulnerability, Narration

(Cavarero, Butler, and Black Feminist Thought)

Fanny Söderback

W 3:00-6:15 [NP] (online)

PHL 657 - Topics in Social and Political Thought

The Myth of Modernity

Rafael Vizcaino

W 3:00-6:15 [NP]

PHL 522 - Social and Political Philosophy

Race, Nature, and Progress in Latin America: Tracing a Line from Alexander von Humboldt to Santiago Castro-Gómez

Elizabeth Millán Brusslan

W 3:00-6:15 [NP]

PSYCHO/SCHIZO-ANALYSIS

PHL 557 - Topics in Continental Philosophy

Sigmund Freud: Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask

Elizabeth Rottenberg

M 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 590 - Trends in Contemporary French Philosophy

Deleuze and the Concept of Experience I

Peg Birmingham

TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 629 - Seminar on Contemporary Problems

Deleuze and the Concept of Experience II

Peg Birmingham

TH 3:00-6:15 [NP]

Distribution Requirement Key:
H-I = History of Western PHL (Ancient or Medieval) NP = Normative Philosophy
H-II = History of Western PHL (Modern or 19th Century) CE = Contemporary European Philosophy

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Graduate Seminar Descriptions, 2021-2022

Fall

Winter

Spring

DECONSTRUCTION AND DEMOCRACY

PHL 577 – Derrida I

Derrida and the Question of Hospitality

Michael Naas M 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 441 – Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Subject of Democracy I

Peg Birmingham TH 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

PHL 656 – Seminar on Social and Political Thought

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Subject of Democracy II

Peg Birmingham
TH 3:00-6:15 [NP]

ETHICS AND POLITICS TODAY

PHL 660 – Seminar in Feminist Ethics

French Feminism I: Luce Irigaray

Fanny Söderbäck
W 3:00-6:15 [NP]

PHL 661 – Topics in Feminist Theory

French Feminism II: Julia Kristeva

Fanny Söderbäck
W 3:00-6:15 [NP]

PHL 629 – Seminar on Contemporary Problems

Decolonial Thought

Rafael Vizcaíno
T 3:00-6:15 [NP]

KANT AND BEYOND

PHL 510 - Kant I

Critique of Pure Reason

Avery Goldman
T 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

PHL 559/PHL 380 – Foucault

Foucault: An Introduction

Kevin Thompson
W 3:00-6:15 [CE]

THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

PHL 522 – Social and Political Philosophy

Adorno

Rick Lee
TH 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

PHL 557 – Topics in Continental Philosophy

Psychoanalysis and Politics

Elizabeth Rottenberg
T 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 697 – Teaching Practicum

2nd Year Student Enrollment Requirement

Fanny Söderbäck
Time TBD [NP]

Distribution Requirement Key:
H-I = History of Western PHL (Ancient or Medieval) NP = Normative Philosophy
H-II = History of Western PHL (Modern or 19th Century) CE = Contemporary European Philosophy

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Graduate Seminar Descriptions, 2020-2021

Fall

Winter

Spring

"WORLD" PHILOSOPHY

PHL 500 – Special Topics in the History of Philosophy

"Latin American Philosophy"

Elizabeth Millán Brusslan W 3:00-6:15 [H-II or NP]

PHL 661 – Topics in Feminist Theory

"Stranger than Other Strangers: Kristeva, Anzaldua, Ahmed"

Fanny Söderbäck T 3:00-6:15 [CE or NP]

PHL 629 – Seminar on Contemporary Problems

"Latin American Philosophy"

Rafael Vizcaino
W 3:00-6:15 [NP]

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE & ETHICS

PHL 557 – Topics in Continental Philosophy

"Continental Philosophy of Science and Math"

H. Peter Steeves
M 4:30-7:45 [CE]

PHL 590 – Trends in Contemporary French Philosophy

"Freudian Legacies: Trauma, Dissociation, Death Drive"

Elizabeth Rottenberg
M 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 529 – The Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics

Kevin Thompson
TH 3:00-6:15 [NP]

CONTEMPORARIES AND ANCIENTS

PHL 656 - Seminar on Social and Political Thought

"Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereignty and Biopower"

Peg Birmingham
T 2:45-6:00 [CE]

PHL 425 - Aquinas

"Agamben's Medieval Inheritance: Aquinas and Scotus"

Rick Lee
W 3:00-6:15 [H-I]

PHL 410 – Plato I

"Plato's Rhetoric"

Michael Naas
M 3:00-6:15 [H-I]

NIETZSCHE/HEIDEGGER

PHL 525 – Nietzsche

"Sickness/Convalescence"

Sean Kirkland
TH 3:00-6:15 [H-II]

PHL 551 – Heidegger II

"Heidegger's Nietzsche"

Will McNeill
TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]

PHL 697 – Teaching Practicum

2nd Year Student Enrollment Requirement

Fanny Söderbäck
Time TBD [NP]

Distribution Requirement Key:
H-I = History of Western PHL (Ancient or Medieval) NP = Normative Philosophy
H-II = History of Western PHL (Modern or 19th Century) CE = Contemporary European Philosophy

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Graduate Course Descriptions 2019-2020

	Fall	Winter	Spring
"WORLD" PHILOSOPHY	PHL 411 – Plato Plato's Cosmos (Gorgias, The Laws) Michael Naas M 3:00-6:15 [H-I]	PHL 500 – Special Topics in the History of Philosophy Latin American Philosophy I Elizabeth Millán Brusslan W 3:00-6:15 [H-II]	PHL 629 – Seminar on Contemporary Problems Latin American Philosophy II Elizabeth Millán Brusslan W 3:00-6:15 [NP]
HUMOR, COMEDY, AESTHETICS	PHL 557 – Topics in Continental Philosophy Joking Around, Seriously (Baudelaire, Bergson, Freud, Kofman) Elizabeth Rottenberg T 3:00-6:15 [CE]	PHL 400 – Special Topics in Traditional Philosophers Aristotle and Hegel on Comedy Richard A. Lee, Jr. M 3:00-6:15 [H-I or H-II]	PHL 551 – Kant II Critique of the Power of Judgement Avery Goldman T 3:00-6:15 [H-II]
20TH CENTURY FRENCH PHILOSOPHY	PHL 570 - Sartre I The Transcendence of the Ego and Being and Nothingness Frédéric Seyler W 6:00-9:15 [CE]	PHL 590 - Trends in Continental French Philosophy Deleuze's Difference and Repetition Kevin Thompson T 3:00-6:15 [CE]	PHL 552 – Social and Political Philosophy Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Peg Birmingham Th 3:00-6:15 [NP]
HEIDEGGER	PHL 550 – Heidegger I Being and Time Will McNeill TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]	PHL 551 – Heidegger II Being and Time Will McNeill TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]	PHL 697 – Teaching Practicum 2nd Year Student Enrollment Requirement Sean D. Kirkland TBA
Distribution Requirement Key: H-I = History of Western PHL (Ancient or Medieval) NP = Normative Philosophy H-II = History of Western PHL (Modern or 19th Century) CE = Contemporary European Philosophy

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Graduate Course Descriptions 2018-2019

	Fall	Winter	Spring
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY	PHL 415 – Aristotle I Aristotle’s Metaphysics Sean D. Kirkland T 3:00-6:15 [H-I]	PHL 440 – Spinoza Spinoza’s Ethics Richard A. Lee, Jr. W 3:00-6:15 [H-II]	PHL 438 – Leibniz Richard A. Lee, Jr. TH 3:00-6:15 [H-II]
HEGEL	PHL 515 – Hegel I Hegel’s Phenomenology María Acosta M 3:00-6:15 [H-II]	PHL 516 – Hegel II Hegel’s Science of Logic Kevin Thompson T 3:00-6:15 [H-II]	PHL 557 – Topics in Continental Philosophy Hegel’s Science of Logic Kevin Thompson T 3:00-6:15 [CE]
SINGULARITY AND THE EVENT	PHL 661 - Topics in Feminist Theory Adriana Cavarero: A Philosophy in the Singular Fanny Söderbäck W 3:00-6:15 [NP]	PHL 577 – Derrida I Derrida: Performativity and the Event Michael Naas M 3:00-6:15 [CE]	PHL 578 – Derrida II Derrida: Performativity and the Event Elizabeth Rottenberg M 3:00-6:15 [CE]
CHALLENGING THE TRADITION	PHL 551 – Heidegger II The Fate of Phenomenology: Heidegger’s Legacy Will McNeill TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]	PHL 590 – Trends in Contemporary French Philosophy Deleuze in 1968 Peg Birmingham TH 3:00-6:15 [CE]	PHL 500 - Special Topics Michel Henry’s Phenomenology of Life: A Philosophy of Immanence Frédéric Seyler W 3:00-6:15 [H-II]
TEACHING PRACTICUM			PHL 697 – Teaching Practicum 2^nd Year Student Enrollment Requirement Jason D. Hill TBA
Distribution Requirement Key: H-I = History of Western PHL (Ancient or Medieval) NP = Normative Philosophy H-II = History of Western PHL (Modern or 19th Century) CE = Contemporary European Philosophy

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Grad Course Descriptions - 2017-2018

2017-2018	Fall	Winter	Spring
BEYOND PLEASURE	PHL 400 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN TRADITIONAL PHILOSOPHERS Pleasure Unlimited: Plato's Philebus, Derrida's "Double Session" Michael Naas M 3:00-6:16 H-I	PHL 661 - TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY Judith Butler: Gender, Desire, Vulnerability Fanny Söderbäck W 3:00-6:15 NP	PHL 557 - TOPICS IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Cruelty and Its Vicissitudes: Kant, Nietzsche, Freud Elizabeth Rottenberg M 3:00-6:16 CE
NATURE AND KNOWLEDGE	PHL 500 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Continental Philosophy of Science: Natural Laws H. Peter Steeves T 6:00-9:15 H-II	PHL 445 - HUME David Hume: Relation, Affect, Law Peg Birmingham TH 3:00-6:15 H-II	PHL 511 - KANT II Immanuel Kant: Critique of Practical Reason Avery Goldman TH 3:00-6:15 H-II
HISTORY, GENEALOGY	PHL 525 - NIETZSCHE Nietzsche and the Thinking of History Sean Kirkland W 3:00-6:15 H-II	PHL 559 - FOUCAULT Foucault and the Question of Truth I Kevin Thompson T 3:00-6:15 CE	PHL 522 - SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Foucault and the Question of Truth II Kevin Thompson T 3:00-6:15 NP
PHENOMENOLOGY, PERCEPTION, AESTHETICS	PHL 415 - ARISTOTLE I Aristotle's De Anima: A Phenomenological Reading Will McNeill TH 3:00-6:15 H-I	PHL 565 - Merleau-Ponty I Desire and Distance: Renaud Barbaras's reading of Merleau-Ponty Frédéric Seyler M 3:00-6:15 CE	PHL 601 - SEMINAR ON AESTHETICS Poetry and Philosophy in the German Romantics and Schopenhauer Elizabeth Millán W 4:00-7:15 NP

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Grad Course Descriptions

2016-2017	Fall	Winter	Spring
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY	PHL 415 - ARISTOTLE I Matter and Temporality Sean Kirkland TH 3:00-6:16 H-I	PHL 657 - TOPICS IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT Walter Benjamin: History, Violence, Language María Acosta M 3:00-6:15 NP	PHL 416 - ARISTOTLE II This course has been cancelled. Virtue and Judgment Daryl Koehn M 3:00-6:16 H-I
SOCIO-POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY	PHL 434 - HOBBES De Corpore Rick Lee M 3:00-6:15 H-II	PHL 400 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN TRADITIONAL PHILOSOPHERS Leviathan, De Cive, Elements of Law Peg Birmingham T 3:00-6:15 H-II	PHL 557 - TOPICS IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Derrida's Grandfathers: Freud/Heidegger Elizabeth Rottenberg T 3:00-6:15 CE
PHILOSOPHIES OF SUSPICION	PHL 516 - HEGEL II Philosophy of Right Kevin Thompson T 3:00-6:15 H-II	PHL 661 - TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY Irigaray’s Philosophy of Sexual Difference Fanny Söderbäck TH 3:00-6:15 NP	PHL 550 - HEIDEGGER I Being and Time Will McNeill TH 3:00-6:15 CE
NATURE, MATERIALISM, LIFE	PHL 522 - SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Badiou: Mathematics, Politics, Ontology, Materialism Bill Martin W 6:00-9:15 CANCELLED	PHL 590 - TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH PHILOSOPHY Bergson: Authenticity, Morality, Religion Frédéric Seyler W 3:00-6:15 CE	PHL 500 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Conceptions of Nature in the Post-Kantians Elizabeth Millán W 3:00-6:15 H-II

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Graduate Course Descriptions 2015-2016

2015-2016	Fall	Winter	Spring
AESTETICS	PHL 601 - Seminar on Aesthetics: Aesthetics I Kant and Schiller María Acosta W 3:00-6:15 NP	PHL 515 - Hegel I: Aesthetics II María Acosta M 3:00-6:15 H-II	PHL 550 - Heidegger I: Origin of the Work of Art Will McNeill TH 3:00-6:15 CE
MATERIALISM AND THE DRIVES	PHL 520 - Marx I: What is Materialism: Marx, Althusser, Adorno Richard Lee M 6:00-9:15 H-II	PHL 557 - Topics in Continental Philosophy: Daseinsanalyse (Freud, Heidegger, Binswanger) Elizabeth Rottenberg W 3:00-6:15 CE Cancelled	PHL 559 - Foucault Kevin Thompson T 3:00-6:15 CE
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY	PHL 410 - Plato I: The Invention of Real Life Michael Naas M 3:00-6:15 H-I	PHL 510 - Kant I Avery Goldman T 3:00-6:15 H-II	PHL 589 - Philosophy, Literature, Community: Schlegel and German Romanticism Elizabeth Millán M 3:00-6:15 H-II
POLITICS AND POWER	PHL 656 - Seminar in Social and Political Thought: Hannah Arendt: On the Concept of the Political Peg Birmingham TH 3:00-615 NP	PHL 657 - Topics in Social and Political Thought: Hannah Arendt: On the Concept of the Political Peg Birmingham TH 3:00-6:15 NP	PHL 500 - Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: Interrogating Power--Ancient Perspectives Daryl Koehn W 3:00-6:15 H-I
PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS	PHL 470 - Philosophy of Wittgenstein Patricia Werhane T 3:00-6:15 CE

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Grad Course Descriptions

2014-2015	Fall	Winter	Spring
METAPHYSICS AND POLITICS	PHL 415 - ARISTOTLE I The Appearance of Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics Sean Kirkland M 6:00-9:15 H-I	PHL 500 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Metaphysics in Scotus and Avicenna Rick Lee W 6:00-9:15 H-I	PHL 589 - PHILOSOPHY LITERATURE, COMMUNITY Narratives on Community: Nancy, Esposito and Agamben Maria Acosta M 6:00-9:15 CE
TOPICS IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT	PHL 522: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY History of Sovereignty Kevin Thompson TH 1:00-4:10 NP	PHL 656 - SEMINAR IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT The Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Peg Birmingham TH 1:00-4:10 NP	PHL 657 - TOPICS IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT The Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Peg Birmingham TH 1:00-4:10 NP
PHILOSOPHY, NATURE, ENVIRONMENT	PHL 629 - SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS Human Being, Animal Being, Plant Being Peter Steeves T 6:00-9:15 NP		PHL 640 - PROBLEMS IN ETHICS Nature and the Environment Elizabeth Milln W 6:00-9:15 NP
PHILOSOPHERS OF SUSPICION	PHL 557 - TOPICS IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Freudian Legacies Elizabeth Rottenberg W 6:00-9:15 CE	PHL 525 - NIETZSCHE Will McNeill T 1:00-4:10 H-II

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Grad Course Descriptions

2013-2014	Fall	Winter	Spring
Contemporary French Philosophy	PHL578: Derrida/ Cixous Michael Naas M 6:00-9:15 CE	PHL 577 - Derrida/Cixous Michael Naas M 6:00-9:15 CE	PHL 590: The Political Philosophy of Jacques Ranciere Peg Birmingham T 1:00-4:10 NP
Phenomenology	PHL 550: Seminar on Heidegger's Being and Time I Will McNeill T 1:00-4:10 CE	PHL 551: Seminar on Heidegger's Being and Time II Will McNeill T 1:00-4:10 CE	PHL 557: French Phenomenology: Michel Henry's Phenomenology of Life Frederic Seyler M6:00-9:15 CE
History of Philosophy	PHL 416: Aristotle and the Philosophy of Time Sean Kirkland W 6:00-9:15 H-I	PHL 400: William of Ockham Rick Lee W 6:00-9:15 H-II	PHL 500: Affect and Autonomy in Chinese Philosophy Franklin Perkins TH 1:00-4:10
Logics	PHL 515: Seminar on Hegel's Science of Logic I Kevin Thompson TH 1:00-4:10 H-II	PHL 516: Seminar on Hegel's Science of Logic II Kevin Thompson TH 1:00-4:10 H-II	PHL 520: Karl Marx and the Logic of Capital Bill Martin W 6:00-9:15 H-II/CBE

Brief Course Descriptions

2012-2013	Fall	Winter	Spring
Phenomenology	PHL 535: Husserl and Phenomenology Frederic Seyler W 6:00-9:15 CE	PHL 550: Heidegger and Phenomenology Will McNeill TH 1:00-4:10 CE	PHL 557: Philosophy of Science: Phenomenology, Deconstruction and Beyond Peter Steeves M 6:00-9:15 CE
Plato and Aristotle: Life, Knowledge and the Soul	PHL 411: Plato: On Life Michael Naas TH 1:00-4:10 H-I	PHL 416: Aristotle: De Anima Sean Kirkland M 6:00-9:15 H-I	PHL 500: Medieval Theories of Knowledge: on Aristotle's De Anima Rick Lee W 6:00-9:15 H-I
German Philosophy	PHL 516: Hegel: Philosophy of Right Kevin Thompson T 1:00-4:10 H-II	PHL 511:Kant: Critique of Judgment Avery Goldman T 1:00-4:10 H-II	PHL 400: German Romanticism Elizabeth Milln TH 1:00-4:10 H-II
Sacrificial Violence	PHL 522: Social Death and the Problem of Thinking Otherwise: Fanon, douard Glissant, and Foucault Darrell Moore M 6:00-9:15 NP	PHL: 629 Violence, Fate, and the Problem of the Debt: Benjamin, Arendt, and Schmidt Andrew Benjamin/ Peg Birmingham W 6:00-9:15 NP
Language, Politics and Ethics			PHL 640: Ethics and Economics Pat Werhane T 1:00-4:10 NP

2011-2012	Fall	Winter	Spring
PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE QUESTION OF BEING	PHL 550 Heidegger I Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics Will McNeill T 1:00-4:10 CE	PHL 587 Reading Levinas I Otherwise than Being Tina Chanter T 1:00-4:10 CE	PHL 557 Topics in Continental Philosophy Fichte: The Roots of Phenomenology Frederic Seyler T 1:00-4:10 CE
CONCEPTS OF NATURE AND THE HUMAN	PHL 440 Spinoza Spinoza: The Generativity of Being and the Status of the Human I Frank Perkins M 6:00-9:15 H-II	PHL 500 Special Topics in the History of Philosophy Zhuangzi: The Generativity of Being and the Status of the Human II Frank Perkins T 6:00-9:15 Elective
DIALECTICS AND CRITIQUE	PHL 656 Seminar on Social and Political Thought Adorno I Negative Dialectics Richard Lee W 6:00-9:15 NP	PHL 657 Topics in Social and Political Thought Adorno II Negative Dialectics Richard Lee W 6:00-9:15 NP	PHL 570 Sartre I Critique of Dialectical Reason Bill Martin M 6:00-9:15 CE
ANIMALITY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE ETHICAL-POLITICAL	PHL 577 Derrida I The Beast and the Sovereign, I & II Michael Naas T 6:00-9:15 CE	PHL 415 Aristotle I Nicomachean Ethics Sean Kirkland M 6:00-9:15 H-I	PHL 522 - Social and Political Philosophy Machiavelli: the Political Symbolic and the Sovereign Will Peg Birmingham TH 1:00-4:10 NP
THE SUBJECT OF ETHICS AND GLOBALIZATION		PHL 445 Hume Treatise on Human Nature Peg Birmingham TH 1:00-4:10 H-II

2010-2011	FALL	WINTER	SPRING
Aristotle	PHL 415 - Aristotle On Logos I: Organon/Metaphysics M 6:00-9:15 Sean Kirkland	PHL 416 - Aristotle On Logos II: Rhetoric/Politics M 6:00-9:15 Sean Kirkland	PHL 552 -Aristotle On Logos III: Heidegger’s Reading of Aristotle T 1:00-4:10 Will McNeill
Hegel	PHL 515 - Hegel Phenomenology of Sprit I TH 1:00-4:10 Kevin Thompson	PHL 516 - Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit II TH 1:00-4:10 Kevin Thompson	PHL 500 - French Hegel W 1:00-4:10 Elizabeth Rottenberg
Reading thinkers and Events	PHL 500 - Duns Scotus W 6:00-9:15 Rick Lee	PHL 557 - Heidegger’s Kant T 1:00-4:10 Avery Goldman	PHL 522 - Arendt: Thinking Politics TH 1:00-4:10 Peg Birmingham
Contemporary French Thought	PHL 577 - Derrida: Writing, Photography, and Other Trace Elements T 1:00-4:10 Michael Naas	PHL 590 - Trends in Contemporary French PHL "Badiou: from Ontology to Politics" W 1:00-4:10 Bill Martin	PHL 661 - French Feminism W 6:00-9:15 Tina Chanter
Economics and Politics: Liberalism		PHL 656 - Rawls and Political Liberalism T 6:00-9:15 Jason Hill	PHL 559 - Foucault and Liberalism: “The Birth of Biopolitics" M 6:00-9:15 Darrell Moore

Stream Topic 2009-2010	Autumn (sec 101)	Winter (sec 201)	Spring (sec 301)
PHILOSOPHY AND THE QUESTION OF NATURE	PHL 410 – Plato’s Philosophy of Nature Michael Naas TH 6:00-9:00 PM	PHL 415 – Aristotle’s Physics Sean Kirkland W 6:00-9:00 PM
MATERIALITY, IMMANENCE, AND SOVEREIGNTY	PHL 434 – Hobbes I Rick Lee W 6:00-9:00 PM	PHL 434 – Hobbes II Peg Birmingham TH 1:00-4:20 PM	PHL 590 – Deleuze: Difference and Repetition Kevin Thompson TH 1:00-4:20 PM
KANT	PHL 510 – Kant I Critique of Pure Reason I Avery Goldman W 1:00-4:20 PM	PHL 511 – Kant II Critique of Pure Reason II Avery Goldman W 1:00-4:20 PM	PHL 512 – Kant III Critique of Practical Reason Elizabeth Rottenberg T 6:00-9:00 PM
PHENOMENOLOGY & THE QUESTION OF ORIGINS	PHL 629 – History, Genealogy, & Origins, in Heidegger, Nietzsche, Foucault Will McNeill T 1:00-4:20 PM	PHL 629 – History, Genealogy, & Origins, in Heidegger, Nietzsche, Foucault Will McNeill T 1:00-4:20 PM	PHL 565 – Merleau-Ponty I Françoise Dastur W 6:00-9:00 PM
CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, AESTHETICS, POLITICS	PHL 500 – Chinese Philosophy Franklin Perkins M 6:00-9:00 PM	PHL 522 – Fanon Darrell Moore M 6:00-9:00 PM	PHL 587 – Levinas: Art & Politics Tina Chanter M 6:00-9:00 PM

Stream Topic 2008-2009	Autumn (sec 101)	Winter (sec 201)	Spring (sec 301)
The Body	The Body in Daoist Thought Franklin Perkins Mon. 5:45-9:00	Leibniz on The Body Franklin Perkins Mon. 5:45-9:00	Topics/Continental PHL: The Body Mary Jeanne Larrabee Tue. 1:30-4:45
Kant and Hegel	Hegel II: Science of Logic I Kevin Thompson Tue. 1:30-4:45	Hegel II: Science of Logic II Kevin Thompson Tue. 1:30-4:45	Kant II: Critique of Judgement Avery Goldman Tue. 5:45-9:00
Political Philosophy	The Subject of Politics I Peg Birmingham Thurs. 1:30-4:45	The Subject of Politics II Peg Birmingham Thurs. 1:30-4:45
Sexualities	Topics/Continental PHL: Sexuality Tina Chanter Wed. 5:45-9:00	Topics/Continental PHL: Queer Theory Darrell Moore Wed. 5:45-9:00
Continental Philosophy and Critique	Derrida I Michael Naas Tue. 5:45-9:00	Topics/Continental PHL: Marxism Bill Martin Tue. 5:45-9:00	The Task of Critique Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert Wed. 5:45-9:00
Of Human Bondage		Topics/Continental PHL: Spivak Namita Goswami Thurs. 5:45-9:00	Human Being, Animal Being H. Peter Steeves Thurs. 1:30-4:45
	Topics in Ethics Mollie Painter-Morland Online		Hoelderlin: Philosophy & Poetry Francoise Dastur Thurs. 5:45-9:00
	Locke Patricia Werhane MW 3:30-5:00

Stream Topic 2007-2008	Autumn (sec 101)	Winter (sec 201)	Spring (sec 301)
Sovereignty, Law, and Beyond	Plato's Laws Michael Naas Tue. 1:30-4:45	Plato's Laws II Michael Naas Wed. 5:45–9:00	Zizek Bill Martin Tue. 5:45–9:00
*Antigone(s)*	Tragic Time in Aristotle's Poetics Sean Kirkland Tue. 5:45-9:00	Holderlin/Hegel/Derrida: Caesura/Roconciliation/The Quasi-Transcendental Kevin Thompson Tue 1:30-4:45	Performative, Post-Colonial Politics of Antigone Tina Chanter Wed. 5:45-9:00
Rights, Property, And The Drive For Mastery		Topics in Psychoanalytic Theory: The Drive for Mastery Elizabeth Rottenberg Mon. 5:45-9:00	Topics in Psychoanalytic Theory: The Drive for Mastery Elizabeth Rottenberg Tue. 1:30-4:45
History of Philosophy	Descartes Rick Lee Mon. 5:45-9:00	Descartes Rick Lee Tue. 5:45-9:00	Social/Political Thought: Early American Political Thought Darrell Moore Thurs. 5:45–9:00
Heidegger and Hermeneutics	Being and Time I Will McNeill Thurs. 1:30-4:45	Being and Time II Will McNeill Thurs. 1:30-4:45	Hermeneutics David Pellauer Mon. 5:45–9:00
Beyond The Continent	Chinese Philosophy Franklin Perkins Wed. 5:45-9:00	Latin American Philosophy Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert Thurs. 5:45–9:00	Postcolonial Feminist Theory Namita Goswami Thurs. 5:45–9:00

Autumn

Winter

Spring

Contemporary French Philosophy

Tina Chanter

M 5:45-9:00

Plato II

Sean Kirkland

M 5:45-9:00

Critical Race Theory

Emmanuel Eze

M 5:45-9:00

Being and the Political Event: Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, I

Peg Birmingham

T 2:15-5:30

Foucault

Darrell Moore

W 5:45-9:00

Philosophy of History in German Idealism

Kevin Thompson

T 2:15-5:30

Moral Agency

Mollie Painter-Morland

T 5:45-9:00

Topics in Continental Philosophy

Michael Naas

T 2:15-5:30

Aquinas

Richard Lee

T 5:45-9:00

Plato I

Sean Kirkland

W 5:45-9:00

Being and the Political Event: Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, II

Peg Birmingham

W 2:15-5:30

Badiou

William Martin

W 5:45-9:00

Nature in German Romanticism And Ideal

Elizabeth Milan-Zaibert

TH 2:15-5:30

Topics in Continental Philosophy: Techne & Technicity I

Will McNeill

TH 2:15-5:30

Topics in Continental Philosophy: Techne & Technicity II

Will McNeill

TH 2:15-5:30

Ricouer on Selfhood

David Pellauer

TH 5:45-9:00

Nietzsche: The Life

David Krell

T 5:45-9:00

Nietzsche: The Work

David Krell

M 5:45-9:00

Topics in Continental Philosophy:: Heidegger, Hermeneutics, Religion

Ben Vedder

TH 5:45-9:00

Stream Topic 2005–2006	Autumn (sec 101)	Winter (sec 201)	Spring (sec 301)
*Time and Memory*	Aristotle Sean Kirkland Wed. 5:45–9:00	Heidegger Will McNeill Wed. 2:15–5:30	Ricouer David Pellauer Mon. 5:45–9:00
Politics Violence Deception: Arendt/Derrida	Derrida Michael Naas Thu. 5:45–9:00	Derrida/Arendt Elizabeth Rottenberg Wed. 5:45–9:00	Arendt Peg Birmingham Thu. 2:15–5:30
Aesthetics and Feminist Theory	Aesthetics Darrell Moore Mon. 5:45–9:00	Kristeva, Art, and Abjection Tina Chanter Thu. 5:45–9:00	Postcolonial Feminism Namita Goswami Wed. 5:45–9:00
Early Modern and Kant	Suarez Rick Lee Mon. 5:45–9:00	Spinoza Frank Perkins Mon. 5:45–9:00	Kant: Critique of Judgment Avery Goldman Tue. 2:15–5:30
*German Idealism*	Hegel I: Science of Logic Kevin Thompson Tue. 2:15–5:30	Hegel II: Science of Logic Kevin Thompson Tue. 2:15–5:30	Marx: Capital Bill Martin Thu. 5:45–9:00

Stream Topic 2004–2005	Autumn (sec 101)	Winter (sec 201)	Spring (sec 301)
*Ancient Philosophy*	*Plato: Timaeus* I** Michael Naas Tue. 5:45–9:00	*Plato: Timaeus* II** Michael Naas Mon. 5:45–9:00	Aristotle: Metaphysics Sean Kirkland Tue. 5:45–9:00
Modern Philosophy	Hume: Treatise on Human Nature Peg Birmingham Thu. 2:15–5:30	*Kant: Critique of Pure Reason* I** Avery Goldman Thu. 2:15–5:30	Kant: Critique of Pure Reason II Avery Goldman Thu. 2:15–5:30
Hegel and the Frankfurt School	Adorno and the Frankfurt School I Rick Lee Mon. 5:45–9:00	Adorno and the Frankfurt School II Rick Lee Tue. 5:45–9:00	Hegel: Philosophy of Right Kevin Thompson Tue. 2:15–5:30
German and French Nietzsche	Heidegger/ Nietzsche I Will McNeill Wed. 2:15–5:30	Heidegger/ Nietzsche II Will McNeill Wed. 2:15–5:30	The French Nietzsche Elizabeth Rottenberg Mon. 5:45–9:00
Social/ Political Philosophy	Locke: Second Treatise on Government Darrell Moore Wed. 5:45–9:00	*Smith: Wealth of Nations* and other writings** Patricia Werhane Wed. 5:45–9:00	Cosmopolitanism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Jason Hill Wed. 5:45–9:00

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