Examines various aspects of Plato’s philosophy: ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, and political philosophy. Aims to understand Plato’s ideas and to engage with them philosophically through careful readings of selected dialogues.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Examination of philosophical issues about the natural sciences. Central questions include the following: What is the nature of scientific explanation? How does science differ from pseudoscience? What is a scientific law? How do experiments work?
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Introduces problems raised by the nature of art, artworks, and aesthetic judgment. Considers the expressive and representational properties of artworks, aesthetic attention, and appreciation, as well as the creation, interpretation, and criticism of artworks. Readings from classical and contemporary sources.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
PHIL-UA 60-000 (10283)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hopkins, Robert
Discusses general questions concerning the nature of reality and truth. What kind of things exist? Are there minds or material bodies? Is change illusory? Are human actions free or causally determined? What is a person, and what, if anything, makes someone one and the same person?
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
PHIL-UA 93-000 (2685)05/23/2022 – 07/06/2022 Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Schlassa, Soren
Examines the nature and grounds of judgments about moral and/or nonmoral values. Are such judgments true or false? Can they be more or less justified? Are the values of which they speak objective or subjective?
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Examines fundamental issues concerning the justification of political institutions. Topics may include democratic theory, political obligation and liberty, criteria of a just society, human rights, and civil disobedience.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
This course aims to accomplish two things. The first is to introduce three broad traditions of normative thinking about social issues from around the globe: a Confucian tradition, one based in Islamic legal traditions, and one derived from European liberalism. The second is to address three current areas of normative debate: about global economic inequality, about gender justice and human rights. We shall explore these first-order questions against the background of the three broad traditions. Our aim will be to understand some of differences of approach that shape the global conversation about these issues that concern people around the world.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
PHIL-UA 6-000 (20339)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Appiah, Kwame Anthony
PHIL-UA 6-000 (20340)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Wu, Patrick
PHIL-UA 6-000 (20341)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Wu, Patrick
PHIL-UA 6-000 (20342)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zacek, Justin
PHIL-UA 6-000 (20343)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zacek, Justin
Examines moral issuExamines moral issues in medical practice and research. Topics include euthanasia and quality of life; deception, hope, and paternalism; malpractice and unpredictability; patient rights, virtues, and vices; animal, fetal, and clinical research; criteria for rationing medical care; ethical principles, professional codes, and case analysis (for example, Quinlan, Willowbrook, Baby Jane Doe).
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
PHIL-UA 50-000 (9403)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Beardman, Stephanie
PHIL-UA 50-000 (23793)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Wills, David Clinton
Considers questions such as the following: Can I have knowledge of anything outside my own mind?for example, physical objects or other minds? Or is the skeptic’s attack on my commonplace claims to know unanswerable? What is knowledge, and how does it differ from belief?
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
PHIL-UA 76-000 (20336)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zhang, Xueyin
PHIL-UA 76-000 (20337)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ballarini, Cristina
PHIL-UA 76-000 (20338)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ballarini, Cristina
Examination of the relationship between the mind and the brain, of the nature of the mental, and of personal identity. Can consciousness be reconciled with a scientific view of the world?
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Modal logic is the logic of necessity and possibility and other such notions. In recent times, the framework of possible worlds has provided a valuable tool for investigating the formal properties of these notions. This course provides an introduction to the basic concepts, methods, and results of modal logic, with an emphasis on its application to such other fields as philosophy, linguistics, and computer science.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
An introduction to the basic techniques of sentential and predicate logic. Students learn how to put arguments from ordinary language into symbols, how to construct derivations within a formal system, and how to ascertain validity using truth tables or models.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
PHIL-UA 70-000 (8448)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Peluce, Vincent
PHIL-UA 70-000 (8449)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Peluce, Vincent
PHIL-UA 70-000 (9185)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gomez, Veronica
The most basic questions about human life and its place in the universe. Topics may include free will, the relation of body and mind, and immortality; skepticism, self-knowledge, causality, and a priori knowledge; religious and secular ethical codes and theories; and intuition, rationality, and faith. Includes classic and current philosophers (e.g., Plato, Descartes, Hume, Russell, Sartre).
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Examines fundamental questions of moral philosophy: What are our most basic values, and which of them are specifically moral values? What are the ethical principles, if any, by which we should judge our actions, ourselves, and our lives?
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
PHIL-UA 40-000 (23262)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
PHIL-UA 40-000 (23303)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Penn, Aidan
PHIL-UA 40-000 (23318)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Penn, Aidan
PHIL-UA 40-000 (23327)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ferreira, Jorge
PHIL-UA 40-000 (23331)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ferreira, Jorge
An introduction to philosophy through the study of selected moral, social, and political issues. Topics may include criminal justice and punishment; political authority and civil disobedience; toleration and free speech; racial justice.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
PHIL-UA 2-000 (10163)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Chaplin, Rosalind
PHIL-UA 2-000 (10164)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Pohl, Stephan
PHIL-UA 2-000 (10165)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Pohl, Stephan
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
An introduction to philosophy through the study of issues in cognitive science. Topics may include the conflict between computational and biological approaches to the mind; whether a machine could think; the reduction of the mind to the brain; connectionism and neural nets. Gives training in philosophical argument and writing.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
PHIL-UA 9005-000 (11094)09/01/2025 – 12/09/2025 Mon9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by De Vignemont, Frederique