PHIL 100Introduction to Philosophy
Electives (15 Credits) Philosophy and Law Minor Philosophy Department | College of Liberal Arts
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PHIL
65 courses with the subject PHIL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PHIL 108Moral and Social Problems
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PHIL 109GMoral Debate in Society
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course studies some contemporary problems of social ethics, particularly abortion, the death penalty, affirmative action, and world hunger and global justice. It introduces various positions on these issues, and the justifications that have been offered to support them. This course develops each student's ability to articulate a position clearly and defend it persuasively. Course Note: This course may count toward the philosophy major with the permission of the Department. Seminar: First Year Seminar Enrollment Requirements: Degree students only with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston. Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar). consent required for enrollment: Department Course Catalog ID: 024915 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 110GEquality and Justice
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture 1171
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PHIL 130GPrivacy
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines several of the current threats to privacy in the computer age related to drug testing, the assembling of personal information dossiers, genetic screening, privacy on the Internet, medical records, and workplace concerns. It makes use of philosophical, legal, and privacy rights. This course may count toward the major in philosophy. Seminar: First Year Seminar Enrollment Requirements: Degree students only with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston. Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar). consent required for enrollment: Department Course Catalog ID: 024919 1172
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PHIL 140GPhilosophy through Film
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: By using imagery from the medium of film, this course attempts to show how philosophy can interconnect themes and ideas presented by film directors. Film provides the opportunity to consider traditional philosophical problems, but in a manner more reflective of the mode of communication of the age. As an aid to class discussion, students read scholarly papers in conjunction with viewing and examining a film. Central topics include epistemology, moral issues, personal identity, human freedom and the meaning of life. Course Note: Cannot take more than one FYS. Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar). Students can only take the class if they have assessed at college level writing Seminar: First Year Seminar Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: Degree students only, with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston. Semester(s) typically offered: Fall and Spring Course Catalog ID: 042678 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 150Critical Thinking
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PHIL 200African Philosophy
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Through a comparison of the concepts of personhood and morality in the United States, the Akan of Ghana and the NSO of Cameroon, this course offers an alternative perspective on such perennial moral, legal and cultural issues as abortion, polygamy and religion. Distribution Area: World Cultures Course Catalog ID: 024686 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 207GThe Meaning of Life
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Reading in this course centers around this question: Does life have meaning? If so, what is it? The course considers whether the question is coherent and whether religion, morality or the search for knowledge are possible answers to it. It also considers arguments that life is 1174
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PHIL 208Existential Themes in Philosophy and Literature
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course introduces the area of philosophical and humanistic studies by means of a consideration of existentialist ideas in both literature and philosophy. Issues will be chosen from a list including the self in relation to others; authenticity, self-deception, and bad faith; freedom and responsibility; death and the meaning of life; and the possibility of objective knowledge. Distribution Area: Humanities Course Catalog ID: 024698 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 211Ancient Philosophy
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This class is an introduction to Greek philosophy, from early Greek philosophy through to the Hellenistic period, with emphasis on the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. It covers 1175
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PHIL 212Modern Philosophy
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The views of the continental rationalists-Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz-and the British Empiricists-Locke, Berkeley, Hume-in relation to general intellectual developments from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. (Course offered in the spring only.) Distribution Area: Humanities Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: One or preferably two PHIL courses Course Catalog ID: 024599 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 215Philosophical Foundations of Public Policy3
200 Level Philosophy Courses
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PHIL 216The History of Ethics3
200-Level Philosophy Course
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PHIL 218Major Social and Political Thinkers3
200-Level Philosophy Course
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PHIL 220Environmental Ethics
Area IV: Social Welfare Policy
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PHIL 222Moral Issues in Medicine
Area II: Urban and Regional Policy
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 224The Philosophy of Art
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Late twentieth-century art has insistently challenged us to come to terms with our understanding of the very nature of the art work. This course is a survey of the major theories of the nature of art, with special emphasis on the views that art is a matter of representing or imitating reality, that art is a form of catharsis, that art is a matter of the expression of emotion, that art is a special kind of symbolic form. It also addresses such questions as the role of art history in a theory of aesthetic interpretation, the problem of forgery, the issue of artistic responsibility and the recent debates over censorship of the arts. Distribution Area: Humanities Course Catalog ID: 024723 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 225LThe Philosophy of Religion
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is an introduction to several fundamental problems and concepts in philosophy of religion. Looking at the major world religions from West to East, the course explores the concepts of God and the Divine, religion and spirituality, mysticism, the role of religious experience and religious language/doctrine, the understandings, forms and aims of religious and spiritual practice, the problem of evil, the relationship of the human being and the divine etc. In the spirit of religious pluralism, this philosophy of religion course is addressed to students of all faiths, as well as agnostics and atheists, who are not afraid to ask challenging questions about what they believe. This course is cross-listed as: RELSTY 225L Distribution Area: Humanities 1179
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PHIL 227Existentialism and Phenomenology
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An inquiry into the broad philosophical movement of existentialism, through a reading of major existentialist thinkers including Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Marcel, Kierkegaard, Jaspers and Heidegger. Topics to be discussed include authenticity and freedom, self-deception, the absurd, the critique of Cartesianism, subjectivity and objectivity, and death and the meaning of life. Course Catalog ID: 024727 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 228Minds and Machines
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: What are minds and can machines be/have minds? We are currently seeing enormous technological transformations, and a rapid rise in use of so-called AI or Artificial Intelligence. Large language models like ChatGPT seem to have changed how we write, work and think nearly overnight. In this class we want to think not only about whether these new ¿tools¿ are ¿minds¿ but also how they transform our own human mental lives and capacities. Thus, we will discuss the question of "artificial intelligence" and in which sense machines might act not just as tools but as minds or agents of sorts. But we will also discuss how human life and agency are changing in the digital age, how technological developments are affecting us, e.g. in terms of social intimacy and mental health, and democracy. We will approach these questions from a philosophical lens and read both classic and contemporary work within philosophy of mind and technology and literature. Semester(s) typically offered: Spring 1180
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PHIL 230Philosophy and Feminism
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PHIL 250Formal Logic9
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PHIL 255The Mystery of Consciousness
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Consciousness has been described as the last great mystery. In this course students will read philosophers who attempt to clarify why it seems so mysterious, including some who argue that it will never be possible to explain consciousness scientifically. On the positive side, student swill consider philosophical approaches to understanding consciousness in terms of mental representations and will examine how cognitive science has re-conceptualized the role of consciousness in our brains. The course will also look at several interesting scientific discoveries and consciousness and discuss their philosophical significance. Distribution Area: Humanities Course Catalog ID: 039159 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 265Sanity and Madness
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course looks at a number of questions about insanity or "madness": What it is like, how it should be described and regarded, therapeutic and curative responses to it, and what special treatment-if any-its sufferers deserve. We pay particular attention to the claims of the so- called "anti-psychiatry" movement, to Foucault and contemporary post-modernist writing, and to feminist analyses of the relation between madness and gender. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences 1182
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PHIL 281Special Topics
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99 Description: A sophomore level course offering selected topics in philosophy. Course content varies and will be announced prior to registration. Course Catalog ID: 024924 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 286What is Freedom?
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Freedom is arguable the central value of modern Western societies. but what is freedom? This course tries to answer this question by approaching the concept of freedom from three distinct points of view, metaphysical, moral-psychological, and political. The course first takes up the questions of free will, of whether or not subjects are genuinely free to choose between different courses of action. The course then investigates the relationship between freedom and moral responsibility. Lastly, the course asks about the meaning of political freedom. Is political freedom secured by the having of certain fundamental rights, or does it also require that one live in a democratic society. 1183
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PHIL 287Equality
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Examination of the ideals of social equality and equal respect in the context of actual inequalities of gender, race, and sexual orientation. Topics are drawn from the following: The nature of equality; racism and racial inequality; justice and the division of labor in the family; sex roles; affirmative action; sexual harassment; sexual orientation and the family; sameness, difference, and equality. Diversity Area: United States Course Catalog ID: 024753 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 290The Philosophy of Law3
PHILLAW 210 - Legislative Labyrinth PHILLAW 300 - Basic Legal Rsng&Rsr Upper-Level Philosophy Course
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 295Caribbean Philosophy
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores philosophy through the lens of Caribbean thought. It will look closely at some of the most fundamental questions in the history of Caribbean thought and culture. Students will consider the meaning of the Caribbean as a geopolitical space, identities forged and conceived of in the Caribbean, social and political philosophies that emerge as a result of colonialism and globalization. Distribution Area: World Cultures Course Catalog ID: 041814 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 297Asian Philosophy3
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 297LAsian Philosophy
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (Includes P/F Option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course introduces students to some of the principal philosophical traditions of India and China. It examines the belief- systems of Hinduism and Buddhism in both India and China, as well as Taoism. Participants also explore in somewhat more detail the Hindu school of Advaita Vedanta in the work of Sankara, and the Madhyamika Buddhism of Nagarjuna. Traditional topics to be addressed include metaphysics, the theory of self (or not-self), relations of world and mind, the status of God (or the lack thereof), the situation of women in these religions, the goal of philosophy, and others. Comparisons among these traditions and with Western thought are attempted and encouraged, but no prior knowledge of specific traditions is assumed. Course Note: PHIL 297L and ASIAN 297L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ASIAN 297L Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 024764 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 299Public Health Ethics
Formerly: PHIL 321 Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable 1186
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PHIL 311Medieval Philosophy: Islamic, Jewish, Christian
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: In this course we will read one or two major medieval Christian philosophers (e.g., Augustine and Aquinas), one or two major medieval Muslim philosophers (e.g. al-Ghazali and ibn Rushd [Averroes]) and one or two major medieval Jewish philosophers (e.g., Saadia and Maimonides). We will focus on some or all of the following themes: God's existence, God's nature, God's justice, the creation of the universe, the priority of reason versus faith, the literal versus metaphorical nature of religious language, and the soul's immortality. Course Catalog ID: 024779 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 318Race and Racism
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable 1187
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PHIL 327Meaning and Being
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Exploration of themes in recent European philosophy, such as the self and the social world, anti-Cartesianism, subjectivity, language, and embodiment. Special attention to the life- world, being-in-the-world, and forms of life. Readings from such philosophers as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein. Course Note: The course is an appropriate sequel to PHIL 315 or PHIL 227. Course Catalog ID: 024788 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 329French and Francophone 20th Century Philosophy
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The class covers key contributions of francophone 20th century thought to philosophy at large, including themes of consciousness, time, meaning, historicity, freedom, the 1188
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 333Ethical Theory
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 337The Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Consent, Coercion and
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 340Speech Acts
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 344The Philosophy of Mind
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable 1189
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 345Theory of Knowledge
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Knowledge-its nature, forms, methods, scope, and validation. What are the relations of knowledge and justification to sense experience? For example, does knowledge of our surroundings rest upon a foundation of sense experience? Is knowledge of the so-called "truths of reason" in some way independent of evidence provided by sense experience? How is a body of knowledge related to an individual knower? Does the justification of one's beliefs depend upon what psychology reveals about the reliability of methods for acquiring the beliefs? Readings from contemporary sources. Course Catalog ID: 024800 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 346The Philosophy of Science
RELSTY 222L - Religion and the Environment: Global Stewardship and Prac SOCIOL 367 - Drugs and Society SOCIOL 368 - Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction SOCIOL 384 - Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care SOCIOL 386 - The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness SOCIOL 342L - Aging and Society
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PHIL 347Problems of Metaphysics
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Ideas such as substance, causality, mind and body, and free will, as they appear in several major metaphysical systems. Distribution Area: Humanities Course Catalog ID: 024803 Course Offer Number: 1
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PHIL 348The Self
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: What is it with which we identify ourselves? We will critically examine, discuss, and write about different viewpoints concerning what we think we know most intimately - the self. Course Catalog ID: 036549 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 351Plato
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Plato's ethics, metaphysics, and theory of knowledge in the Phaedo, Republic, 1191
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PHIL 364Philosophy of War and Peace
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This class will take up key philosophical questions that arise in the context of waging war and making peace. Themes covered include just war theory (the morality of going to war, the orality of fighting, the morality of post war arrangements), transitional justice and how countries come to terms with their past, the moral psychology of war (the philosophical coherence f concepts like courage, cowardice, valor, glory, the meaning of peace and its different permutations, the plausibility of pacifism and the attractions of war as a way of life. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: Compltion of one PHIL 100-level course or higher Course Catalog ID: 041815 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 376Consent
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Consent plays an important role in our lives. It gives us the moral and legal power to transform our relationships with others: by requiring that we give valid consent to certain acts, we're protected from unwanted interference, while the ability to grant it allows us to transform what might otherwise be a crime into a benefit. While most philosophers agree about the value and power of consent, they disagree about the conditions necessary for valid consent, the ways in which consent can be vitiated, and the content of policies, regulations, and laws designed to govern it. The primary purpose of this course is to provide an advanced survey of this disagreement, with a special focus on consent to medical procedures and to sexual relations. This 1192
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PHIL 379Reality and Illusion, East and West
POLSCI 202 - Comparative Politics POLSCI 365 - Japan and the United States POLSCI 387 - The Government and Politics of China (C) POLSCI 390 - A Comparative Analysis of Inequality and Redistribution RELSTY 232L - Asian Religions RELSTY 358L - Psychology, Politics, and Philosophy in East Asia Cross-Cultural East Asian Studies Minor Asian Studies Department | College of Liberal Arts
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 380Social & Political Philosophy
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 381Special Topics
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99 Description: This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course Note: Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period. Course Catalog ID: 024815 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 395International Ethics
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines moral and political arguments concerning government and individual actions in the area of foreign policy, international relations, and global economic policy. Questions considered include: When, if ever, is war or intervention justified? Does justice require 1194
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PHIL 397Marxist Philosophy
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A philosophical exploration of the thought of Karl Marx, based on a reading of his early and mature works. Topics discussed are idealism and materialism; the relation between theory and practice; dialectic; alienation; ideology; class; the analysis of capitalism; reification; and some contemporary theories, including critical theory and socialist feminism. Other theorists read include Lenin, Engels, Mao Tse Tung, Lukacs, Braverman, EP Thompson, Marcuse, and Gorz. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: PHIL 100 Course Catalog ID: 024755 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 414Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 418The End of Democracy
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 437Metaethics
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 440Philosophy of Language
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
PHIL 450Rights3
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 452Aristotle
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture 1196
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- 2026-2027
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PHIL 455Hegel and German Idealism
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is an introduction to the philosophy of Hegel and to the Hegelian tradition, through a reading of Hegel's major work, The Phenomenology of Spirit. Other readings for the course include excerpts of The Science of Logic and The Philosophy of Right, as well as important critical sources. Course Catalog ID: 024829 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
- Source
- catalog.umb.edu
PHIL 462The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
POLSCI 252 - Modern Political Thought (D) THRART 318 - Modern European Drama
- Subject
- PHIL
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- catalog.umb.edu
PHIL 465Kant's Moral Philosophy and Its Critics
1197
- Subject
- PHIL
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- catalog.umb.edu
PHIL 475Philosophy Capstone
Electives (18 Credits) Philosophy, Law, and Ethics (BA) Philosophy Department | College of Liberal Arts
- Subject
- PHIL
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- catalog.umb.edu
PHIL 478Independent Study I
or
- Subject
- PHIL
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- catalog.umb.edu
PHIL 479Independent Study II
Credit(s): 1-3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99 Description: Study of a particular area of this subject under the super Students wishing to register must do so through the department. Course Catalog ID: 024839 Course Offer Number: 1
- Subject
- PHIL
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- catalog.umb.edu
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