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Program checklist · Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Fordham University · Bronx, NY

A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.

Program
Award
Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Credential class
ceterms:DoctoralDegree
CIP
38.0101
Total credits (published)
30-48
Credits (computed from items)
387
Catalog edition
2026
Checklist type
degree-program
SOC
25-1126
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
191241
CourseShelf checklist
CK_191241_778fcbfc
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. PHIL 5100
                PHIL 5100
                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. PHIL 8050
                PHIL 8050
                As published: “Proseminar: Philosophy Research/Writing”
              2. PHIL 0925
                PHIL 0925
                As published: “PhD Qualifying Papers—Philosophy (only for students entering without an M.A.)”
              3. PHIL 0930
                PHIL 0930
                As published: “PhD Comprehensive Examination-Philosophy 7”
              4. PHIL 0950
                PHIL 0950
                As published: “Proposal Development”
              5. PHIL 0960
                PHIL 0960
                As published: “Proposal Acceptance”
              6. PHIL 9999
                PHIL 9999
                As published: “Dissertation Direction (Completion and public defense of the dissertation)”

              Ancient Philosophy courses

              12 items
              1. PHIL 5001
                PHIL 5001
                As published: “Introduction to Plato”
                3
              2. PHIL 5009
                PHIL 5009
                As published: “Introduction to Aristotle”
                3
              3. PHIL 5209
                PHIL 5209
                As published: “Ancient Philosophy”
                3
              4. PHIL 6025
                PHIL 6025
                As published: “Philosophy's Origins”
                3
              5. PHIL 6101
                PHIL 6101
                As published: “Presocratic Philosophy”
                3
              6. PHIL 6114
                PHIL 6114
                As published: “Neo-Platonism in the Middle Ages”
                3
              7. PHIL 7009
                PHIL 7009
                As published: “Plotinus”
                3
              8. PHIL 7012
                PHIL 7012
                As published: “Plato's Dialogues”
                3
              9. PHIL 7016
                PHIL 7016
                As published: “Hellenistic Philosophy”
                3
              10. PHIL 7018
                PHIL 7018
                As published: “Ancient Psychology”
                3
              11. PHIL 7310
                PHIL 7310
                As published: “Self-Cultivation Philosophies”
                3
              12. PHIL 7650
                PHIL 7650
                As published: “Aristotelian Ethics”
                3

              Medieval Philosophy courses

              16 items
              1. PHIL 5010
                PHIL 5010
                As published: “Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas”
                3
              2. PHIL 5012
                PHIL 5012
                As published: “Introduction to St. Augustine”
                3
              3. PHIL 6110
                PHIL 6110
                As published: “Philosophy of the Islamic World”
                3
              4. PHIL 6114
                PHIL 6114
                As published: “Neo-Platonism in the Middle Ages”
                3
              5. PHIL 6116
                PHIL 6116
                As published: “After Form: Recovering the Lost Scholastic Notion of Form for Contemporary Use”
                3
              6. PHIL 6130
                PHIL 6130
                As published: “Animals in Medieval Philosophy”
                3
              7. PHIL 6460
                PHIL 6460
                As published: “Intentionality”
                3
              8. PHIL 6505
                PHIL 6505
                As published: “Medieval Philosophical Theories of the Fall”
                3
              9. PHIL 7039
                PHIL 7039
                As published: “Aquinas's Philosophy of God”
                3
              10. PHIL 7042
                PHIL 7042
                As published: “Buridan on the Soul”
                3
              11. PHIL 7058
                PHIL 7058
                As published: “Bonaventure's Metaphysics”
                3
              12. PHIL 7060
                PHIL 7060
                As published: “Varieties of Essentialism”
                3
              13. PHIL 7069
                PHIL 7069
                As published: “Medieval Logic and Metaphysics”
                3
              14. PHIL 7071
                PHIL 7071
                As published: “Aquinas: Questions on God”
                3
              15. PHIL 7076
                PHIL 7076
                As published: “Metaphysical Themes in Duns Scotus”
                3
              16. PHIL 7080
                PHIL 7080
                As published: “Medieval Views on Cognition and Certainty”
                3

              Modern Philosophy courses

              14 items
              1. PHIL 5002
                PHIL 5002
                As published: “Nineteenth Century Philosophy”
                3
              2. PHIL 5005
                PHIL 5005
                As published: “Classical Modern Philosophy”
                3
              3. PHIL 6104
                PHIL 6104
                As published: “German Idealism and Freedom”
                3
              4. PHIL 6117
                PHIL 6117
                As published: “Classical German Philosophy and Spinoza”
                3
              5. PHIL 7106
                PHIL 7106
                As published: “Kant I”
                3
              6. PHIL 7110
                PHIL 7110
                As published: “Descartes and Spinoza”
                3
              7. PHIL 7120
                PHIL 7120
                As published: “Philosophical Writings of Rousseau”
                3
              8. PHIL 7140
                PHIL 7140
                As published: “Kant and German Idealism”
                3
              9. PHIL 7149
                PHIL 7149
                As published: “Hegel's Phenomenology”
                3
              10. PHIL 7161
                PHIL 7161
                As published: “Nietzsche”
                3
              11. PHIL 7164
                PHIL 7164
                As published: “First Philosophy: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Presocratics”
                3
              12. PHIL 7166
                PHIL 7166
                As published: “Recognition and Intersubjectivity”
                3
              13. PHIL 7370
                PHIL 7370
                As published: “Moral Emotions”
                3
              14. PHIL 7380
                PHIL 7380
                As published: “Modern Philosophies of Property”
                3

              Contemporary Philosophy courses

              18 items
              1. PHIL 5002
                PHIL 5002
                As published: “Nineteenth Century Philosophy”
                3
              2. PHIL 6103
                PHIL 6103
                As published: “Dialectical Thinking and Ideology Critique”
                3
              3. PHIL 6115
                PHIL 6115
                As published: “Heidegger on Language, Technology, Thought”
                3
              4. PHIL 6121
                PHIL 6121
                As published: “Kierkegaard and Levinas”
                3
              5. PHIL 6440
                PHIL 6440
                As published: “The Epistemology of John Henry Newman”
                3
              6. PHIL 7031
                PHIL 7031
                As published: “Alienation and Reification”
                3
              7. PHIL 7153
                PHIL 7153
                As published: “Husserl's Later Thought”
                3
              8. PHIL 7156
                PHIL 7156
                As published: “Husserl and Heidegger”
                3
              9. PHIL 7159
                PHIL 7159
                As published: “Kierkegaard”
                3
              10. PHIL 7161
                PHIL 7161
                As published: “Nietzsche”
                3
              11. PHIL 7164
                PHIL 7164
                As published: “First Philosophy: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Presocratics”
                3
              12. PHIL 7203
                PHIL 7203
                As published: “Merleau-Ponty”
                3
              13. PHIL 7204
                PHIL 7204
                As published: “Wittgenstein and Later Wittgenstein”
                3
              14. PHIL 7210
                PHIL 7210
                As published: “Whitehead”
                3
              15. PHIL 7215
                PHIL 7215
                As published: “Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations'”
                3
              16. PHIL 7229
                PHIL 7229
                As published: “Derrida”
                3
              17. PHIL 7235
                PHIL 7235
                As published: “Husserl's 'Ideas II'”
                3
              18. PHIL 7459
                PHIL 7459
                As published: “Heidegger's Being and Time, Black Notebooks”
                3

              Metaphysics and Epistemology courses

              30 items
              1. PHIL 5051
                PHIL 5051
                As published: “Existentialism and Critical Phenomenology”
                3
              2. PHIL 5075
                PHIL 5075
                As published: “Continental Philosophy and Faith”
                3
              3. PHIL 5250
                PHIL 5250
                As published: “Philosophies of Race”
                3
              4. PHIL 6105
                PHIL 6105
                As published: “Laws of Nature”
                3
              5. PHIL 6107
                PHIL 6107
                As published: “Philosophy and Translation”
                3
              6. PHIL 6109
                PHIL 6109
                As published: “The Epistemology and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence”
                3
              7. PHIL 6112
                PHIL 6112
                As published: “Explanation”
                3
              8. PHIL 6116
                PHIL 6116
                As published: “After Form: Recovering the Lost Scholastic Notion of Form for Contemporary Use”
                3
              9. PHIL 6122
                PHIL 6122
                As published: “Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence”
                3
              10. PHIL 6215
                PHIL 6215
                As published: “French Philosophy of Education”
                3
              11. PHIL 6251
                PHIL 6251
                As published: “American Pragmatism”
                3
              12. PHIL 6252
                PHIL 6252
                As published: “American Philosophy”
                3
              13. PHIL 6410
                PHIL 6410
                As published: “Understanding and Wisdom”
                3
              14. PHIL 6420
                PHIL 6420
                As published: “Expertise”
                3
              15. PHIL 6436
                PHIL 6436
                As published: “Philosophy of Time and Persistence”
                3
              16. PHIL 6457
                PHIL 6457
                As published: “Mind-Body Problem”
                3
              17. PHIL 6580
                PHIL 6580
                As published: “Virtue Epistemology”
                3
              18. PHIL 6805
                PHIL 6805
                As published: “Topics in Phil of Rel.”
                3
              19. PHIL 6850
                PHIL 6850
                As published: “Hermeneutics”
                3
              20. PHIL 7060
                PHIL 7060
                As published: “Varieties of Essentialism”
                3
              21. PHIL 7145
                PHIL 7145
                As published: “Phenomenology and Religious Experience”
                3
              22. PHIL 7157
                PHIL 7157
                As published: “Phenomenology”
                3
              23. PHIL 7236
                PHIL 7236
                As published: “The Emotions and Moral Perception”
                3
              24. PHIL 7340
                PHIL 7340
                As published: “Humility and Arrogance”
                3
              25. PHIL 7350
                PHIL 7350
                As published: “Evidential Undermining”
                3
              26. PHIL 7360
                PHIL 7360
                As published: “Scientific Realism”
                3
              27. PHIL 7465
                PHIL 7465
                As published: “The Emotions”
                3
              28. PHIL 7730
                PHIL 7730
                As published: “Recent Work in Epistemology”
                3
              29. PHIL 7752
                PHIL 7752
                As published: “Divine Providence”
                3
              30. PHIL 7857
                PHIL 7857
                As published: “Topics in Contmp Metaphy”
                3

              Value Theory courses

              33 items
              1. PHIL 5003
                PHIL 5003
                As published: “Natural Law Ethics”
                3
              2. PHIL 5031
                PHIL 5031
                As published: “Teaching Classics in Ethics”
                3
              3. PHIL 5114
                PHIL 5114
                As published: “Normative Ethical Theory”
                3
              4. PHIL 5250
                PHIL 5250
                As published: “Philosophies of Race”
                3
              5. PHIL 5305
                PHIL 5305
                As published: “Confronting Moral Controversy”
                3
              6. PHIL 6102
                PHIL 6102
                As published: “Human Rights”
                3
              7. PHIL 6103
                PHIL 6103
                As published: “Dialectical Thinking and Ideology Critique”
                3
              8. PHIL 6106
                PHIL 6106
                As published: “Autonomy and Paternalism”
                3
              9. PHIL 6108
                PHIL 6108
                As published: “Communitarianism”
                3
              10. PHIL 6111
                PHIL 6111
                As published: “Affective Injustice”
                3
              11. PHIL 6113
                PHIL 6113
                As published: “Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics”
                3
              12. PHIL 6118
                PHIL 6118
                As published: “Trust”
                3
              13. PHIL 6119
                PHIL 6119
                As published: “Freedom and Domination in Republican Thought”
                3
              14. PHIL 6120
                PHIL 6120
                As published: “Democratic Political Economy”
                3
              15. PHIL 6190
                PHIL 6190
                As published: “Feminist Political Philosophy”
                3
              16. PHIL 6270
                PHIL 6270
                As published: “Pragmatist Ethics”
                3
              17. PHIL 6471
                PHIL 6471
                As published: “Responsibility and Blame”
                3
              18. PHIL 6472
                PHIL 6472
                As published: “Responsibility, Blame, and Forgiveness”
                3
              19. PHIL 6630
                PHIL 6630
                As published: “Discourse Ethics”
                3
              20. PHIL 7031
                PHIL 7031
                As published: “Alienation and Reification”
                3
              21. PHIL 7035
                PHIL 7035
                As published: “Recent Critical Theory”
                3
              22. PHIL 7166
                PHIL 7166
                As published: “Recognition and Intersubjectivity”
                3
              23. PHIL 7236
                PHIL 7236
                As published: “The Emotions and Moral Perception”
                3
              24. PHIL 7240
                PHIL 7240
                As published: “Contemporary Metaethics”
                3
              25. PHIL 7245
                PHIL 7245
                As published: “Moral Psychology of Anger”
                3
              26. PHIL 7465
                PHIL 7465
                As published: “The Emotions”
                3
              27. PHIL 7580
                PHIL 7580
                As published: “Biopolitics and Necropolitics”
                3
              28. PHIL 7605
                PHIL 7605
                As published: “Philosophical Aesthetics”
                3
              29. PHIL 7664
                PHIL 7664
                As published: “Philosophy of Literature”
                3
              30. PHIL 7675
                PHIL 7675
                As published: “Moral Genealogies”
                3
              31. PHIL 7680
                PHIL 7680
                As published: “Classics of Analytic Ethics”
                3
              32. PHIL 7760
                PHIL 7760
                As published: “Dimensions of Political Justice”
                3
              33. PHIL 7770
                PHIL 7770
                As published: “Philosophical Bioethics”
                3
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