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Graduate Courses

2016-2017

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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

2015-2016

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Graduate Course Descriptions 2015-2016

2015-2016	Fall	Winter	Spring
AESTETICS	PHL 601 - Seminar on Aesthetics: Aestetics 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

2014-2015

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Grad Course Descriptions

2014-2015	Fall	Winter	Spring
METAPHYSICS AND POLITICS	PHL 415 - ARISTOTLE I The Appearance of Substance in Aristotles 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

2013-2014

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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 Rancire 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 Frdric 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

2012-2013

Brief Course Descriptions

2012-2013	Fall	Winter	Spring
Phenomenology	PHL 535: Husserl and Phenomenology Frdric 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 Aristotles 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

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 Frdric 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

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

2009-2010

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

2008-2009

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

2007-2008

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

2006-2007

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

Grad Course Descriptions

2005-2006

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

2004-2005

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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