To foster the pursuit of wisdom, graduate courses investigate the intersection of
human experience and the nature of reality, and they do so in dialogue with the classics
of the Western philosophical tradition.
Graduate philosophy courses include topics such as...
- Philosophy of Law
- Philosophy of History
- Philosophy of Technology
- Asian Thought
- Scholastic Tradition
- Phenomenological Tradition
Courses also cover the following areas:
HIstorical courses are offered sequentially in a three-year cycle in order to give
students the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the entire history of Western
philosophy. Courses include the following text seminars:
- Antiquity
- Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
- The Later Middle Ages
- Early Modernity
- Later Modernity
- Postmodernity
Topical courses are devoted to reflection in some of the fundamental areas of philosophical
inquiry. Building on readings from the tradition of Western philosophy, they are aimed
not merely at textual exegesis, but at understanding the "things themselves." These
courses include:
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Philosophical Anthropology
- Philosophy of God
- Metaphysics
- The Nature of Tradition
The Research Seminars are advanced courses usually restricted to doctoral students.
They reflect current faculty research, both on particular thinkers and on specialized
topics. Topics include:
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Cicero and Augustine in Dialogue
- Maimonides
- Descartes's Thinking
- Spinoza
- Hegel's Encyclopaedia: Logic, Nature, Spirit
- Wittgenstein
- Lonergan's Insight
- Christianity and Postmodernism
- The Notion of Being
- Metaphysical Themes
- Themes in Social and Political Philosophy
- Res extensa
- Philosophy of Imagination
