Philosophy
Explore 72 Philosophy courses, descriptions, ratings, and teaching history at Boston College.
- PHIL1070 Philosophy of the Person I
- PHIL1071 Philosophy of the Person II
- 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
- PHIL2150 Philosophical Perspectives on Science
- PHIL2164 The Challenge of Peace
- 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)
- PHIL2485 The Good Life in Japan
- PHIL2525 The Great Conversation I: Ancient & Medieval Philosophers
- 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
- PHIL3307 Teaching Assistantship
- PHIL3314 Mind and Body
- PHIL3420 Philosophy of Race and Racism
- 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
- PHIL4901 Readings and Research
- PHIL4921 Advanced Independent Research
- PHIL4931 Senior Honors Seminar
- PHIL4932 Perspectives Seminar
- PHIL5005 Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL5007 Mahayana Buddhism: Thought and Practice
- PHIL5015 Kant's First Critique
- 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
- PHIL6401 Plotinus On Providence
- PHIL6555 Heidegger and Politics
- PHIL6633 Hermeneutics of Christian Life
- PHIL6670 Technology and Culture
- PHIL7175 Hegel's Encyclopedia, Vol. 1: Science of Logic, § 1-83
- PHIL7255 Plato and Aristotle on Hope and Expectation
- PHIL7680 Phenomenology of Art
- PHIL7704 Plato's Republic
- PHIL7762 Soren Kierkegaard
- PHIL7797 Readings and Research
- PHIL7799 Readings and Research
- PHIL8583 The Phenomenology of Life: Selected Readings
- PHIL8801 Master's Thesis
- PHIL8888 Interim Study
- PHIL9998 Doctoral Comprehensives
- PHIL9999 Doctoral Continuation