Philosophy at Boston College
Boston College Philosophy courses: 55 listings with descriptions, sections, instructor ratings, and teaching history.
Philosophy at Boston College offers 55 courses in the current catalog, from PHIL1070 Philosophy of the Person I to PHIL8583 The Phenomenology of Life: Selected Readings. Each course page on Linden Study shows the catalog description, credits and prerequisites, the sections offered each term, and the instructors who have taught it, with aggregate ratings from Boston College's published course evaluations, and from Rate My Professors where available, each labelled with its source. Teaching records here cover 152 instructors across 16 terms, from Fall 2021 to Fall 2026.
1000-level courses
- PHIL1070 Philosophy of the Person I
- PHIL1088 Person and Social Responsibility I
- PHIL1090 Perspectives on Western Culture I/Perspectives I
- PHIL1104 Modernism and the Arts I/Perspectives II
- PHIL1109 Horizons of the New Social Sciences I/Perspectives III
- PHIL1119 New Scientific Visions I/Perspectives IV
- PHIL1160 The Challenge of Justice
- PHIL1252 Practical Logic
- PHIL1726 Exploring the Mystery of God: A Philosophical Perspective
- PHIL1727 The Self and its Limits: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
2000-level courses
- PHIL2150 Philosophical Perspectives on Science
- PHIL2210 Animals, Machines, and Human Beings: From Aristotle to AI
- PHIL2233 Values in Social Services and Health Care
- PHIL2261 Telling Truths I: Writing for the Cause of Justice
- PHIL2264 Logic
- PHIL2291 Philosophy and Theology of Community I
- PHIL2476 Rumi and the Sufi Imagination: Mysticism and Love in Persian Poetry (in Translation)
3000-level courses
- PHIL3135 Dante's Sinners in Inferno and Purgatory
- PHIL3250 Buddhist Modernism
- PHIL3255 The Idea of the Self: Philosophical Perspectives
- PHIL3290 Philosophy of Love and Friendship
- PHIL3420 Philosophy of Race and Racism
4000-level courses
- PHIL4001 Feminisms and Philosophies of Difference
- PHIL4402 How to Begin Thinking: Aftermaths of Twentieth-Century Literature, Philosophy, History
- PHIL4405 Greek Philosophy
- PHIL4408 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Philosophy
- PHIL4555 The Problem of Evil
- PHIL4565 Happiness and Utopia: Thinking about the Ideal Life
- PHIL4931 Senior Honors Seminar
5000-level courses
- PHIL5005 Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL5007 Mahayana Buddhism: Thought and Practice
- PHIL5075 Kant's Religion Within the Boundary of Mere Reason
- PHIL5235 Space and Time: Aristotle to Einstein
- PHIL5320 Crisis and Renewal in Early 20th-Century Europe
- PHIL5377 Philosophically Religious 1
- PHIL5425 Ricoeur and the Problem of Evil
- PHIL5440 Philosophical Implications of Artificial Intelligence
- PHIL5512 Philosophy of Existence
- PHIL5528 Skepticism, Stoicism, and Neo-Platonism
- PHIL5529 Metaphysics
- PHIL5549 Selected Readings in Phenomenology
- PHIL5563 Ethics, Religion, and International Politics
- PHIL5577 Symbolic Logic
- PHIL5650 Law and Interpretation
- PHIL5901 Special Topics: The Ethics and Politics of Capitalism
- PHIL5950 Ethics and Happiness in Modern Philosophy
6000-level courses
- PHIL6401 Plotinus On Providence
- PHIL6555 Heidegger and Politics
- PHIL6633 Hermeneutics of Christian Life
- PHIL6670 Technology and Culture
7000-level courses
- PHIL7175 Hegel's Encyclopedia, Vol. 1: Science of Logic, § 1-83
- PHIL7255 Plato and Aristotle on Hope and Expectation
- PHIL7704 Plato's Republic
- PHIL7762 Soren Kierkegaard