CA · Bachelors
Philosophy (BA)
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Program overview
The Greek words from which Philosophy is formed mean love of wisdom and all great philosophers have been moved by an intense devotion to the search for wisdom Philosophy takes no belief for granted but examines the grounds for those beliefs which make up people s fundamental views of the world Philosophers think about these beliefs as thoroughly and systematically as possible using methods of conceptual analysis reasoning and detailed description What distinguishes Philosophy from the physical and social sciences is its concern not only with the truths which are discovered by means of specialized methods of investigation but with the implications that such discoveries have for human beings in their relations with one another and the world Moreover Philosophy has an abiding interest in those basic assumptions about the nature of the physical and social world and about the nature of enquiry itself which underlie our scientific and practical endeavours The Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto offers courses in most of the main periods and areas of Philosophy which are listed here with a typical question or the name of one or two central figures Ancient Philosophy Plato Aristotle Mediaeval Philosophy Augustine Aquinas Early Modern Philosophy Descartes Hume Kant Nineteenth-Century Philosophy Hegel Mill Marx Global Philosophy Chinese Islamic Jewish Sanskrit South Asian Philosophies Continental Philosophy and Phenomenology Husserl Heidegger Sartre Analytic Philosophy Quine Russell Wittgenstein Epistemology and Metaphysics What can be known What is the ultimate nature of reality Moral Philosophy How should we argue rationally about right and wrong Philosophy of Mind What is mind Is there free will Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics What is sound reasoning Do numbers exist Philosophy of Language What is the meaning of meaning Philosophy of Natural Science What is scientific method Social and Political Philosophy What justifies the state Aesthetics What is art Must it be beautiful In addition the Department offers Seminars numbered PHL400H1 - PHL488H1 Individual Studies courses numbered PHL495H1 - PHL499H1 and the Socrates Project PHL489Y1
Duration: 13
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