Philosophy at Boston College
Boston College Philosophy courses: 100 listings with descriptions, sections, instructor ratings, and teaching history.
Philosophy at Boston College offers 100 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 the number of responses behind each one. Teaching records here cover 165 instructors across 17 terms, from Fall 2021 to Spring 2027.
1000-level courses
- PHIL1070 Philosophy of the Person I
- PHIL1088 Person and Social Responsibility I
- PHIL1089 Person and Social Responsibility II
- PHIL1090 Perspectives on Western Culture I/Perspectives I
- PHIL1091 Perspectives on Western Culture II/Perspectives II
- 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
- PHIL1722 The Formation of Early Christian Thought: A Philosophical Examination
- PHIL1726 Exploring the Mystery of God: A Philosophical Perspective
- PHIL1727 The Self and its Limits: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
- PHIL1730 Memory, Disruption, Hope: Philosophical Perspectives
2000-level courses
- PHIL2150 Philosophical Perspectives on Science
- PHIL2151 Philosophical Perspectives on Science II
- PHIL2164 The Challenge of Peace
- PHIL2210 Animals, Machines, and Human Beings: From Aristotle to AI
- PHIL2216 Boston: An Urban Analysis
- PHIL2225 Freedom
- PHIL2230 Mass Incarceration: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
- PHIL2233 Values in Social Services and Health Care
- PHIL2259 Perspectives on War, Aggression, and Conflict Resolution I
- PHIL2261 Telling Truths I: Writing for the Cause of Justice
- PHIL2262 Telling Truths II: Depth Writing as Service
- PHIL2264 Logic
- PHIL2291 Philosophy and Theology of Community I
- PHIL2294 Cultural and Social Structures II
- PHIL2490 Philosophy in Great Plays
- PHIL2525 The Great Conversation I: Ancient & Medieval Philosophers
- PHIL2526 The Great Conversation II: Modern and Contemporary Philosophers
3000-level courses
- PHIL3025 Dante's Saints and Boethius
- PHIL3135 Dante's Sinners in Inferno and Purgatory
- PHIL3210 Knowledge and Reality
- PHIL3250 Buddhist Modernism
- PHIL3255 The Idea of the Self: Philosophical Perspectives
- PHIL3270 Hermeneutics of Justice
- PHIL3290 Philosophy of Love and Friendship
- PHIL3314 Mind and Body
- PHIL3420 Philosophy of Race and Racism
- PHIL3692 Medieval Women Philosophers
4000-level courses
- PHIL4001 Feminisms and Philosophies of Difference
- PHIL4010 Introduction to Latin American Philosophy
- PHIL4402 How to Begin Thinking: Aftermaths of Twentieth-Century Literature, Philosophy, History
- PHIL4403 Does God Exist?
- PHIL4405 Greek Philosophy
- PHIL4408 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Philosophy
- PHIL4410 Philosophy and Medicine
- PHIL4429 Freud and Philosophy
- PHIL4450 Ancient Moral Philosophy
- PHIL4454 Unheard Voices: Philosophy at the Crossroads of Identity
- PHIL4495 Self-Knowledge and Discernment
- PHIL4555 The Problem of Evil
- PHIL4565 Happiness and Utopia: Thinking about the Ideal Life
- PHIL4602 Self & Community
- PHIL4931 Senior Honors Seminar
5000-level courses
- PHIL5005 Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL5007 Mahayana Buddhism: Thought and Practice
- PHIL5010 Africana Philosophy
- PHIL5015 Kant's First Critique
- PHIL5075 Kant's Religion Within the Boundary of Mere Reason
- PHIL5235 Space and Time: Aristotle to Einstein
- PHIL5240 Figures in Analytic Philosophy
- PHIL5250 Philosophy and Poetry in the 20th Century: Rilke, Auden, Celan
- PHIL5300 Women Virtue Ethicists
- PHIL5320 Crisis and Renewal in Early 20th-Century Europe
- PHIL5377 Philosophically Religious 1
- PHIL5418 Capstone: Working, Playing, Being
- PHIL5419 Capstone: A Life Well Lived
- PHIL5425 Ricoeur and the Problem of Evil
- PHIL5440 Philosophical Implications of Artificial Intelligence
- PHIL5442 Faith and Reason
- PHIL5512 Philosophy of Existence
- PHIL5528 Skepticism, Stoicism, and Neo-Platonism
- PHIL5529 Metaphysics
- PHIL5534 Environmental Ethics: Value of Nature/Nature of Value
- PHIL5549 Selected Readings in Phenomenology
- PHIL5551 Jaspers' History of Metaphysics:Descartes, Spinoza, Pascal and Leibniz
- PHIL5563 Ethics, Religion, and International Politics
- PHIL5570 The Irish Mind
- PHIL5577 Symbolic Logic
- PHIL5599 Kant's Moral Philosophy
- PHIL5650 Law and Interpretation
- PHIL5901 Special Topics: The Ethics and Politics of Capitalism
6000-level courses
- PHIL6200 Morals and Politics
- PHIL6230 The Socratic Aporia Dialogues
- PHIL6235 Aquinas on Science and Nature
- PHIL6401 Plotinus On Providence
- PHIL6555 Heidegger and Politics
- PHIL6605 Augustine
- PHIL6633 Hermeneutics of Christian Life
- PHIL6670 Technology and Culture
- PHIL6687 Back to Earth: Towards a Symbiotic Ecology
7000-level courses
- PHIL7175 Hegel's Encyclopedia, Vol. 1: Science of Logic, § 1-83
- PHIL7255 Plato and Aristotle on Hope and Expectation
- PHIL7495 Heidegger's Being and Time: A Critical Reading
- PHIL7704 Plato's <i>Republic</i>
- PHIL7753 Reading Jacques Derrida
- PHIL7762 Soren Kierkegaard