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Program checklist · Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Fordham University · Bronx, NY

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Program
Award
Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Credential class
ceterms:DoctoralDegree
CIP
38.0101
Total credits (published)
30-48
Catalog edition
0319
Checklist type
degree-program
SOC
25-1126
Description
Ph.D. students entering with a master's in philosophy take 30 hours (10 classes) of coursework. Students entering the Ph.D. program without a master's in philosophy take 48 hours (16 classes) of coursework.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
191241
CourseShelf checklist
CK_191241_c247b4ce
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

CIP Code

0 items

    Required Courses

    1 item
    1. One required course in each of the below historical periods: 1
      Not resolved to a course
      12

    Ancient Philosophy

    0 items

      Medieval Philosophy

      0 items

        Modern Philosophy

        0 items

          Contemporary Philosophy 2

          1 item
          1. One required course in each of the below topical areas: 1
            Not resolved to a course
            6

          Metaphysics and Epistemology

          0 items

            Value Theory 3

            0 items

              Elective Courses

              electives · 1 item
              1. For students with a master's degree, four electives. For students with a bachelor's degree, ten electives. 4
                Not resolved to a course
                12 to 30

              Logic Requirement (or Department exam) 5

              1 item
              1. As published: “Logic I”
                or: PHIL 0940 Logic Examination

              Proficiency in 1 language other than English

              1 item
              1. Ph.D. students in Philosophy must demonstrate a strong level of reading competence, as determined by their Advisory Committees, in one language other than English. Students register for a 0-credit, pass/fail course when they are prepared to demonstrate proficiency in the relevant language. 6
                Not resolved to a course
                0

              Proseminar, Comprehensive Exam, Qualifying Papers, and Dissertation: 5

              6 items
              1. As published: “Proseminar: Philosophy Research/Writing”
              2. As published: “PhD Qualifying Papers—Philosophy (only for students entering without an M.A.)”
              3. As published: “PhD Comprehensive Examination-Philosophy 7”
              4. As published: “Proposal Development”
              5. As published: “Proposal Acceptance”
              6. As published: “Dissertation Direction (Completion and public defense of the dissertation)”

              Ancient Philosophy courses

              12 items
              1. As published: “Introduction to Plato”
                3
              2. As published: “Introduction to Aristotle”
                3
              3. As published: “Ancient Philosophy”
                3
              4. As published: “Philosophy's Origins”
                3
              5. As published: “Presocratic Philosophy”
                3
              6. As published: “Neo-Platonism in the Middle Ages”
                3
              7. As published: “Plotinus”
                3
              8. As published: “Plato's Dialogues”
                3
              9. As published: “Hellenistic Philosophy”
                3
              10. As published: “Ancient Psychology”
                3
              11. As published: “Self-Cultivation Philosophies”
                3
              12. As published: “Aristotelian Ethics”
                3

              Medieval Philosophy courses

              16 items
              1. As published: “Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas”
                3
              2. As published: “Introduction to St. Augustine”
                3
              3. As published: “Philosophy of the Islamic World”
                3
              4. As published: “Neo-Platonism in the Middle Ages”
                3
              5. As published: “After Form: Recovering the Lost Scholastic Notion of Form for Contemporary Use”
                3
              6. As published: “Animals in Medieval Philosophy”
                3
              7. As published: “Intentionality”
                3
              8. As published: “Medieval Philosophical Theories of the Fall”
                3
              9. As published: “Aquinas's Philosophy of God”
                3
              10. As published: “Buridan on the Soul”
                3
              11. As published: “Bonaventure's Metaphysics”
                3
              12. As published: “Varieties of Essentialism”
                3
              13. As published: “Medieval Logic and Metaphysics”
                3
              14. As published: “Aquinas: Questions on God”
                3
              15. As published: “Metaphysical Themes in Duns Scotus”
                3
              16. As published: “Medieval Views on Cognition and Certainty”
                3

              Modern Philosophy courses

              14 items
              1. As published: “Nineteenth Century Philosophy”
                3
              2. As published: “Classical Modern Philosophy”
                3
              3. As published: “German Idealism and Freedom”
                3
              4. As published: “Classical German Philosophy and Spinoza”
                3
              5. As published: “Kant I”
                3
              6. As published: “Descartes and Spinoza”
                3
              7. As published: “Philosophical Writings of Rousseau”
                3
              8. As published: “Kant and German Idealism”
                3
              9. As published: “Hegel's Phenomenology”
                3
              10. As published: “Nietzsche”
                3
              11. As published: “First Philosophy: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Presocratics”
                3
              12. As published: “Recognition and Intersubjectivity”
                3
              13. As published: “Moral Emotions”
                3
              14. As published: “Modern Philosophies of Property”
                3

              Contemporary Philosophy courses

              18 items
              1. As published: “Nineteenth Century Philosophy”
                3
              2. As published: “Dialectical Thinking and Ideology Critique”
                3
              3. As published: “Heidegger on Language, Technology, Thought”
                3
              4. As published: “Kierkegaard and Levinas”
                3
              5. As published: “The Epistemology of John Henry Newman”
                3
              6. As published: “Alienation and Reification”
                3
              7. As published: “Husserl's Later Thought”
                3
              8. As published: “Husserl and Heidegger”
                3
              9. As published: “Kierkegaard”
                3
              10. As published: “Nietzsche”
                3
              11. As published: “First Philosophy: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Presocratics”
                3
              12. As published: “Merleau-Ponty”
                3
              13. As published: “Wittgenstein and Later Wittgenstein”
                3
              14. As published: “Whitehead”
                3
              15. As published: “Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations'”
                3
              16. As published: “Derrida”
                3
              17. As published: “Husserl's 'Ideas II'”
                3
              18. As published: “Heidegger's Being and Time, Black Notebooks”
                3

              Metaphysics and Epistemology courses

              30 items
              1. As published: “Existentialism and Critical Phenomenology”
                3
              2. As published: “Continental Philosophy and Faith”
                3
              3. As published: “Philosophies of Race”
                3
              4. As published: “Laws of Nature”
                3
              5. As published: “Philosophy and Translation”
                3
              6. As published: “The Epistemology and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence”
                3
              7. As published: “Explanation”
                3
              8. As published: “After Form: Recovering the Lost Scholastic Notion of Form for Contemporary Use”
                3
              9. As published: “Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence”
                3
              10. As published: “French Philosophy of Education”
                3
              11. As published: “American Pragmatism”
                3
              12. As published: “American Philosophy”
                3
              13. As published: “Understanding and Wisdom”
                3
              14. As published: “Expertise”
                3
              15. As published: “Philosophy of Time and Persistence”
                3
              16. As published: “Mind-Body Problem”
                3
              17. As published: “Virtue Epistemology”
                3
              18. As published: “Topics in Phil of Rel.”
                3
              19. As published: “Hermeneutics”
                3
              20. As published: “Varieties of Essentialism”
                3
              21. As published: “Phenomenology and Religious Experience”
                3
              22. As published: “Phenomenology”
                3
              23. As published: “The Emotions and Moral Perception”
                3
              24. As published: “Humility and Arrogance”
                3
              25. As published: “Evidential Undermining”
                3
              26. As published: “Scientific Realism”
                3
              27. As published: “The Emotions”
                3
              28. As published: “Recent Work in Epistemology”
                3
              29. As published: “Divine Providence”
                3
              30. As published: “Topics in Contmp Metaphy”
                3

              Value Theory courses

              33 items
              1. As published: “Natural Law Ethics”
                3
              2. As published: “Teaching Classics in Ethics”
                3
              3. As published: “Normative Ethical Theory”
                3
              4. As published: “Philosophies of Race”
                3
              5. As published: “Confronting Moral Controversy”
                3
              6. As published: “Human Rights”
                3
              7. As published: “Dialectical Thinking and Ideology Critique”
                3
              8. As published: “Autonomy and Paternalism”
                3
              9. As published: “Communitarianism”
                3
              10. As published: “Affective Injustice”
                3
              11. As published: “Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics”
                3
              12. As published: “Trust”
                3
              13. As published: “Freedom and Domination in Republican Thought”
                3
              14. As published: “Democratic Political Economy”
                3
              15. As published: “Feminist Political Philosophy”
                3
              16. As published: “Pragmatist Ethics”
                3
              17. As published: “Responsibility and Blame”
                3
              18. As published: “Responsibility, Blame, and Forgiveness”
                3
              19. As published: “Discourse Ethics”
                3
              20. As published: “Alienation and Reification”
                3
              21. As published: “Recent Critical Theory”
                3
              22. As published: “Recognition and Intersubjectivity”
                3
              23. As published: “The Emotions and Moral Perception”
                3
              24. As published: “Contemporary Metaethics”
                3
              25. As published: “Moral Psychology of Anger”
                3
              26. As published: “The Emotions”
                3
              27. As published: “Biopolitics and Necropolitics”
                3
              28. As published: “Philosophical Aesthetics”
                3
              29. As published: “Philosophy of Literature”
                3
              30. As published: “Moral Genealogies”
                3
              31. As published: “Classics of Analytic Ethics”
                3
              32. As published: “Dimensions of Political Justice”
                3
              33. As published: “Philosophical Bioethics”
                3
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