Primarily for fourth-year and graduate students who have had no previous course in Philosophy. Knowledge, Explanation, and the Nature of Things . Introduction to major themes in epistemology and metaphysics. Primarily for fourth-year and graduate students who have had no previous course in Philosophy. Advanced study of the Presocratics, or of a philosopher such as Plato, or of a school such as the Sceptics or Stoics.
Topics vary from year to year.
Advanced study of a medieval philosopher such as Aquinas, or school. Intensive study of a major philosopher or school such as Descartes, Hume, Empiricism, Rationalism, or the British utilitarians. The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant . Study of Kant's critical philosophy. Study of a major nineteenth-century philosopher such as Hegel, Mill or Nietzsche, or school, such as German Idealism.