2011-2012 GRADUATE COURSES

Students who are not graduate students in the University of Toronto Department of Philosophy must secure the instructors approval before taking a PHL course. Print a copy of the SGS Add/Drop Course(s) Form (http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/informationfor/students/inform/stuforms.htm), have it signed by the instructor and submit it to the Graduate Office, Department of Philosophy. Students from other Ontario Universities must request enrollment through the Ontario Visiting Graduate Students Exchange Program. Contact the graduate office of your home university. The following lists our graduate courses with instructors, times and descriptions, as well as which of our eight breadth requirements is covered. These breadth requirements are 1. Ancient 2. Medieval 3. 17th and 18th century 4. 19th century 5. 20th century 6. Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science 7. Values (Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion) 8. Mind, Language, Logic Unless otherwise noted, every PHL graduate course will be taught at the Jackman Humanities Building on the fourth floor, either Room 401 or Room 418.

FALL 2011
FALL 2011: Courses offered by the Philosophy Department
PHL1000H(F/S) Independent Reading and/or Research Course PHL1001H(F/S) Independent Reading and/or Research Course

JVP2147F Environmental Philosophy Ingrid Stefanovic Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00 p.m. ES 1042 Breadth Requirement: Values This course explores how value judgments and philosophical assumptions affect environmental decision-making. Water ethics will provide a focus for discussion, as students are encouraged to: (a) recognize and articulate their views on the environment, as well as to seek reasons to justify those views; (b) become more aware of others value judgments, mental models and paradigms; (c) explore ways of modifying behaviour through increased awareness of water and other broader environmental issues; (d) help to critically analyze hidden assumptions behind water policies, programs and institutional (regulatory and judicial) procedures; and (e) see built and natural environments in a more integrated way. Assignments will be organized to allow students to apply their own, specific areas of research to this interdisciplinary field.

PHL1111F PhD Proseminar: Disagreement in Epistemology and Political and Legal Philosophy David Dyzenhaus/Gurpreet Rattan Mondays, 12:00-3:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science

Disagreement: This course will examine the issue of disagreement from epistemological, semantic, political, and legal perspectives. In the first half of the course, we will focus on epistemology and semantics. Topics will include: How should the mental states of parties to a disagreement be theorized epistemologically and semantically? How and why is disagreement an epistemically significant phenomenon? How should awareness of disagreement with my epistemic equals impact my confidence in my opinions? How are disagreement and relativism related? Is relativism a coherent doctrine? How is relativism best understood? In the second half of the course, we will focus on political and legal philosophy. Topics will include: What kinds of disagreement matter to political and legal philosophy? Can the claim of the state to have the authority to decide issues of common concern on which there is profound disagreement be justified? Are there certain kinds of disagreement where this claim is justifiable but others in respect of which the state must be neutral? What is the role of social institutions, and in particular of the legal system, in dealing with disagreement? Should this role be conceived more in procedural or substantive terms? The course will be evaluated by six short papers, four pages double spaced, on the reading for the week. These are due on the Sunday prior to class before 5.00 PM. Three must be on readings in the first half of the course, three on readings in the second half.

PHL2009F Seminar in Greek Philosophy: Platos Ethics Rachel Barney Tuesdays, 12:00-3:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: Ancient A survey of ethical theory and philosophical method in Platos early dialogues, including the Euthydemus, Meno, Protagoras, Euthyphro and Charmides.

PHL2063F Kants Ethics David Novak Mondays, 12:00-3:00 p.m. JHB 401 Breadth Requirement: 17th-18th Century This seminar will deal with Kants ethical theory. We will be reading Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason. In addition, we will be reading Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, to appreciate the religious dimension of Kants ethics and its strong influence on liberal Christianity and liberal Judaism in the 19th and 20th centuries.

PHL2064F Seminar on Kant: Kant on the Power of Judgment Ulrich Schlsser Fridays, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: 17th-18th Century The first part of the seminar will focus on core topics in the Critique of Pure Reason and related texts. These will include the nature and cognitive role of judgments, Kants approach to concept formation, the deduction argument and the socalled schematism. In the second part we move on to Kants aesthetics. We will be analyzing the cognitive architecture underlying the judgments of taste as presented in the Critique of Judgment.

PHL2097F Topics in Analytic Philosophy: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Formal Philosophy (But Were Afraid to Ask) Jonathan Weisberg Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: [Various - To Be Decided] This course surveys formal tools commonly used in philosophy. Well introduce tools from a variety of areas: philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of science, and more. Topics may include semantics (twodimensional semantics, deontic logic, heap and liar paradoxes, conditionals), logic (set theory, computability, cardinal and ordinal numbers), formal epistemology (probability theory, confirmation theory, belief-revision), and decision and game theory (expected utility, preference structures, Nash equilibria). Applications to contemporary philosophical problems will be emphasized throughout. There will be a final exam rather than a term paper. There will also be weekly homework assignments, consisting of problem-sets designed to prepare students for the exam.

PHL2131F MA Seminar: Ethics - Seminar on Double Effects Joseph Boyle Mondays, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. JHB 401 Breadth Requirement: Values This seminar will consider the ethical doctrine of double effect and the underlying account of intention, volition, practical reason and moral judgment on which it depends. The main issues to be discussed are: what is the precise moral significance attributed by defenders of double effect to the distinction between what a person intends in acting and what a person voluntarily accepts as a side effect of doing something else? Can this attribution of moral significance be justified? Are there better ways to account for the cases double effect seems to handle? Is there a principled way to distinguish side effects that are not intended from intended means and ends? Readings will include some from the framers of the modern discussion, especially, Anscombe, Hart, Foot and some from recent critics, such as Thomson, Scanlon, and Alison MacIntyre, as well as some of my work on double effect.

PHL2171F Philosophy of Mind: Life and Mind Evan Thompson Wednesdays, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: Mind, Language, Logic Is mind a necessary or constitutive feature of biological life? Is biological life a necessary or constitutive feature of mind? Put another way, can there be living beings that are not also cognitive beings, and can there be cognitive beings that are not also living beings? Computational cognitive science and functionalist philosophy of mind have traditionally answered Yes to the last two questions. With the rise of embodied cognitive science, however, these questions have received new attention. For example, according to some versions of the so-called strong continuity thesis of life and mind, mind is necessary for life. One notable feature of these new discussions is that they draw heavily from Continental phenomenological writings about nature and biological life. We will follow this lead by letting these issues about life and mind guide our reading of a number of Continental philosophical texts on nature, life, and animal being. We will begin with a careful reading of Hans Jonass The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology, then proceed to Jakob von Uexkulls newly translated, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Men, with a Theory of Meaning, and then read texts by Heidegger (The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics) and Merleau-Ponty (The Stucture of Behavior, Nature: Course Notes from the College de France). Additional readings will be drawn from cognitive science, biology, and philosophy of mind. No prior familiarity with these issues or texts will be assumed.

PHL2191F Seminar in Philosophy of Language: Sense Imogen Dickie Wednesdays, 3:00-6:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: Mind, Language, Logic We will cover a range of issues at the boundaries of philosophy of language and philosophy of mind arising from attempts to develop Freges notion of sense. These issues will include: How can we improve on Freges own accounts of what senses are and what grasp of sense consists in?; How does the notion of sense interact with the notion of truth?; Can a broadly Fregean framework accommodate sense without reference?; Does anything like Freges notion of sense have a role to play in a right account of how we communicate with one another?. In the first two thirds of the term we will look at these (and other) issues while working through the central parts of Dummett Frege Philosophy of Language and Evans The Varieties of Reference, with sideways glances at relevant work by other people. Topics for the last part of term will be decided by a vote in class. No prior knowledge of Frege will be assumed, but people wanting to take this class who have not studied Frege before would give themselves a good start by reading On Sense and Reference and The Thought before the first class.

PHL2196F Topics in the Philosophy of Science: Thought Experiments James Robert Brown Thursdays, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science Thought experiments seem to give us knowledge that is not based entirely on sensory experience. This leads to the main puzzle: how do they work? Do they sometimes give us a priori knowledge of nature?, Are they vehicles for exposing flaws in our conceptual structures?, Are they disguised arguments using nothing more than logic and sense data? It is hard to imagine philosophy without them (Platos cave, Putnams twin earth, Parfits people splitting like amoebas, Thompsons violinist, Searles Chinese room, Jacksons Mary-the-colour-scientist, etc.), and the history of physics is replete with thought experiments that have played a crucial role in thinking about the physical world (Lucretiuss spear thrown at the edge of space, Galileo on free fall, Newtons bucket, Einsteins elevator, Heisenbergs microscope, Schrdingers cat, and so on). Considerable time will be spent looking at specific examples in both philosophy and science (but no background in science is required). The aims of the course will include: uncovering the workings of particular thought experiments, classifying them (since they often work in different ways), and determining their legitimacy in various situations. The format will be a combination of lectures and student presentations.

PHL3000F Professional Development Seminar Diana Raffman Wednesdays, 12:00-3:00 p.m. JHB 418 Prerequisite: ABD Status Requirements: Students will be required to present papers connected to their dissertation work, as well as summaries of their dissertation projects. Students will also be required to participate in the discussion of other students papers and projects. This non-credit course is designed to prepare students to present their work to colleagues and participate in high-level academic philosophical interaction. Its aim is to prepare the student for the kind of philosophical interaction that she will typically encounter when going into the job market. This course will be required of all students who wish to use the departmental placement services, and must be taken no later than the year before going on the job market. The requirement may be waived if satisfying it would cause undue hardship to the student (if the student, for instance, does not live in the Toronto area).

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE WORKSHOP James Robert Brown Thursdays, 12:00-3:00 p.m. JHB 418 The philosophy of science workshop is an informal, non-credit seminar on topics in the philosophy of science. Participants include scientists as well as philosophers. Anyone interested would be welcome. Free pizza! To get on the email list announcing the weekly topics, contact Jim Brown: jrbrown@chass.utoronto.ca

FALL 2011: Courses offered by other departments, that count as Philosophy courses AMP 2000Y: Proseminar for the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Noncredit Seminar) Mondays, 4:00 6:00 pm. Details: TBA

MST 3308F The Philosophy of Peter Abelard Peter King Mondays, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. LI 310 Breadth Requirement: Medieval The most famous philosopher of the 12th century and the greatest logician since Antiquity, Peter Abelard wrote extensively on theology, ethics, and what he called dialectic (a mixture of logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics). In this seminar well start out with the facts of his biography, and then look at representative samples of his philosophical work in all these areas. Latin is desireable but not necessary. Students will write a short paper about midway through the term and then a longer final seminar paper.

WINTER 2012
WINTER 2012: Courses offered by the Philosophy Department
JPC2089S 20C Continental Philosophy: Political Theology Rebecca Comay Thursdays, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. JHB 418 (*note day change from earlier listings*) Breadth Requirement: 20th Century In a classic essay of 1981 Claude Lefort suggests that the conjunction of the theological-political might be permanent that is, that theological issues (messianism, salvation, autofoundation, etc) continue to cast their shadow over the discourse of modern secular politics even or especially where these vestiges take an invisible or oblique shape. Nowhere is the issue more volatile than in todays globalized world. This course will explore some of the modalities of this persistence. We will explore the interlacing of theology and politics in recent (and not so recent) continental philosophy, with a particular focus on the concepts of sovereignty, legitimacy, and modernity itself. Authors will include: Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Jacques Derrida, Claude Lefort, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj iek.

PHL2007S Seminar in Medieval Philosophy Lloyd Gerson Wednesdays, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. JHB 418

Breadth Requirement: Ancient This course will undertake a close reading of the central parts of the collection of essays known today as Aristotles Metaphysics. Among the topics to be studied are: the science of being qua being and its relation to theology, the account of sensible substance, Aristotles criticisms of Platos metaphysics; form/matter as metaphysical concepts. Some relevant material from other works of Aristotle will also be discussed, including the Categories and Physics.

PHL2096S1 Seminar in Analytic Philosophy: Rationality, Consciousness, and Action Benj Hellie/Andrew Sepielli Mondays, 6:00-9:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: Mind, Language, Logic I, now, have a particular perspective on the world. This differentiates me from plants, tables, and laptop computers, which lack a perspective. And it differentiates me from things with different perspectives, like you, or like future selves of mine who are running for the bus, struggling to detect a songs time signature, or imagining what things are like from your perspective. This notion of a perspective seems so crucial to our understanding of ourselves, of our thoughts, of our actions; but like many such notions, it can seem mysterious -- unamenable to theoretically useful characterization. One thing well try to do in this class is to render perspective and related notions less mysterious. Well then put these notions to philosophical work, in trying to answer questions like: What is it for me to act under a description? What is the relationship between trying to do something and doing it? What is it for me to guide my action, rather than taking an unguided leap of faith? Is it in some sense better, or more rational to try than to do? To do than to try? To engage in guided rather than unguided action? There are many ways of reconfiguring our minds so as to avoid inconsistent beliefs; which of these count as reasoning? What are we given by sense experience, and how are we given it? How can some of our beliefs be justified a priori? How might ampliative inference be possible? Authors whose work we may read include: both of the instructors, Elizabeth Anscombe, John Bargh, Rudolf Carnap, Peter Gollwitzer, Richard Holton, Niko Kolodny, John McDowell, Brian OShaughnessy, Gilbert Ryle, Susanna Siegel, A.R. White, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

PHL2096S2 Seminar in Analytic Philosophy: Expressivism About Linguistic Meaning Nate Charlow Mondays, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. JHB 401 Breadth Requirement: This course covers expressivist/dynamic methods to theorizing about linguistic meaning. It begins with a survey of foundational work in meta-ethical expressivism and dynamic semantics. The rest of the course is devoted to empirical applications: conditionals, imperatives, epistemic modals.

PHL2097S Seminar in Analytic Philosophy: Frege and Russell Bernard Katz Fridays, 12:00-3:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: Mind, Language, Logic

The development of formal logic toward the end of the nineteenth century promoted a philosophical style and method, which has become known as Analytic Philosophy. In this seminar, we will examine some of the central texts of two of the principal authors of this tradition, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. Our approach in the seminar will be historical: we shall try to gain an appreciation of these figures as systematic thinkers. A course in formal logic (for example, an undergraduate course equivalent to PHL245H) is a prerequisite for this course.

PHL2100S MA Seminar: Universals Byeong-uk Yi Thursdays, 12:00-3:00 p.m. JHB 401 Breadth Requirement: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science In this course, we will study one of the oldest issues in philosophy, the reality of universals. Are there universals or attributes (e.g., colors, shapes, and kinds) in addition to particulars (e.g., red shirts, circular domes, and dogs)? If so, how do they exist? Do they exist independently of how we conceive them? Or do they exist as concepts in our mind? Well begin by reading M. J. Lous introduction on the issue in the first two chapters of his book Metaphysics, and study contemporary books or articles representing major positions on those issues.

PHL2101S Seminar in Metaphysics: The Philosophy of Kit Fine Jessica Wilson Tuesdays, 6:00-9:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science Kit Fine is one of the outstanding philosophers of our (indeed, any) time. He has made original, substantial and influential contributions to many fields (including metaphysics, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of language) and associated debates, including those concerning the nature of vagueness, time, abstraction, fundamentality, composition, and essentialism. In this course we will familiarize ourselves with a decently representative sample of Fines work, both for its own sake and in order to get a feel for how Fines approach to metaphysical and other questions---an approach that is in certain respects Aristotelian---differs from the broadly Humean approach characteristic of Lewis and others. Fine will visit the seminar and plans to forward some of his unpublished work for us to read.

PHL2105S Topics in Metaphysics: Being and Nothing Karolina Huebner Wednesdays, 12:00-3:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: 17th-18th Century This course is an investigation of the nature of being and nothingness in modern philosophy, including such notions as substance, degree of reality and different senses of being, as well as problems of the nature of becoming and creation.

PHL2142S Seminar in Political Philosophy: Kants Legal and Political Philosophy Arthur Ripstein Tuesdays, 12:00-3:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: 17th-18th Century Kants works in theoretical philosophy, moral philosophy, and aesthetics all occupy secure places in the philosophical canon. His legal and political writings have attracted less attention. They are important for two sets of reasons. For those interested in legal and political philosophy, Kant is among the most important of liberal thinkers. He offers novel and powerful analyses of the structural features of legal ordering, the relation between private law and public law, the nature of legal authority, the division of powers in a liberal regime, the justification of punishment, and the morality of international relations. Moreover, all of these ideas are treated as expressions of an underlying view of people as free and equal. Since the ideas of freedom and equality are of enduring political and philosophical interest, Kants development of them is of first importance. Second, for those interested in Kants philosophical project more generally, his legal and political writings integrate his central concerns in interesting way. The relation between theoretical and practical reason are

fundamental to them, as is the related issue of the relationship between our nature as rational beings and our nature as empirical beings.

PHL2145S Bioethics: Foundations of Bioethics William Harvey Mondays, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. JHB 418 Breadth Requirement: Values Clinical medical ethics raises fundamental philosophical questions in ethics, metaphysics and epistemology in bioethics understood as the ethics of life personal life, not merely human biological life that characterizes the biomedical model of reasoning in the healthcare sciences. The medicalization of persons skews the moral geography of healthcare by failing to accommodate the definitive role of personal ethical choice. The topics chosen focus on the theory and practice of clinical ethics and medical science that will elucidate this problem. Among the topics: The normative (or value)/empirical, scientific (or fact) distinction; essentially contested concepts such as health and disease; theory, practice, quandary ethics, ethical conflict and ethical relativism. The Biomedical Model of reasoning in medical science and Verificationism. Medicalization and social construction of malady. Persons, agency, action and practical reason. Self, subjectivity and meaningfulness. Pathographies - narrative, interpretation, and narrative ethics. Virtue, character, and feminist ethics. Legal and moral analyses of the doctrine of informed consent. Mental competency, rationality and surrogate decisionmaking. End-of-life issues and organ transplantation. Ethical theory, anti-theory and moral particularism. Justice, ethics, economics and policy. Ethical consultants, consultations and committees.

PHL2148S Philosophy of Law: Contemporary Issues in Legal Philosophy Sophia Moreau Wednesdays, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. JHB 401 (Legal Theory Workshop on Fridays, 12:00-1:30 p.m.) Breadth Requirement: Values This seminar will focus on the recent work of those moral and legal philosophers who are coming to speak at the Legal Theory Workshop in the spring of 2012. We will likely have 4 speakers and will spend 3 weeks looking at the work of each speaker. Students will attend the weekly seminar meetings and will also attend the four Legal Theory Workshops at which these speakers present their papers. (Workshops are held on Fridays from 12:30 to 2pm). Our past speakers have included both philosophers (e.g. Martha Nussbaum, Tim Scanlon, Will Kymlicka) and legal academics working on particular legal doctrines (e.g. John Goldberg, Deborah Hellman, Leo Katz, and John Simmons). A schedule of the Legal Theory Workshop speakers for 2011-12 will be posted on the Faculty of Law website by June, 2011 check there for details of the theorists we will be discussing. Evaluation: 1 seminar presentation of 15-20 minutes; 1 paper of 3,000 words; a 1-2 page comment on each of the 4 Workshop papers that are to be presented that term.

PHL2172S Seminar in Philosophy of Mind: Materialism and Its Troubles Bill Seager Thursdays, 6:00-9:00 p.m. JHB 401 Breadth Requirement: Mind, Language, Logic This course examines the ups and downs of modern materialism (or physicalism). Well work through the early identity theory, functionalism, non-reductive materialism and their associated problems, especially those arising from the phenomena of consciousness. Special attention will be paid to issues stemming from the explanatory gap and the modal argument against materialism.

WINTER 2011: Courses offered by other departments, that count as Philosophy courses
AMP 2000Y: Proseminar for the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Noncredit Seminar). Continued from Fall 2011. Mondays, 4:00 6:00 pm

CLA5012S Studies in Ancient Phil: Presocratic Philosophy Brad Inwood Wednesdays, 3:00-6:00 p.m. Room, LMB 205 Breadth Requirement: Ancient From the first philosophers of the western tradition, via Parmenides (arguably the founder of metaphysics), to the thinkers of the fifth century BC who shaped Platos intellectual environment: this seminar will cover the principal developments in early Greek philosophy with a special emphasis on the antecedents of metaphysics and epistemology in the period. Knowledge of Greek is not required; those with Greek will be expected to make use of it. Course requirements and texts are still TBA but will be somewhat different for those with and those without knowledge of Greek.

MST 3327S Seminar in Medieval Philosophy: Free Will and Human Action in Medieval Philosophy Martin Pickav Mondays, 2:00-4:00 p.m. LI 310 Breadth Requirement: Medieval Historically many philosophers have believed that human beings owe their ability to act freely to a special human faculty called the will. In this seminar we will look into the origins of this view by examining medieval accounts of free will and human action. For the discovery of the faculty of the will is often considered as one of the main contributions medieval philosophy made to the history of philosophy. The main topics explored in this class are: (1) What conception of freedom do medieval authors hold? Does freedom, for instance, involve a power to otherwise? Are there rival conceptions of freedom? Is freedom compatible with certain forms of determinism? (2) What is the basis of the free exercise of our will? Do we have free will and free choice in virtue of the will itself or in virtue of our capacities for thought and deliberation? Authors to be studied include Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and John Duns Scotus.

SUMMER 2012
May-June PHL2195F Philosophy of Biology Denis Walsh Time: TBA Breadth Requirement: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science The objective of this series of seminars is to present a range of topics in the general philosophy of science from the perspective of the philosophy of biology. General philosophy of science developed largely independently of the philosophy of biology. In recent years, the philosophy of biology has burgeoned. In light of the growing maturity of the philosophy of biology, it is worth asking how it might informor transformthe foundational issues in the philosophy of science. Seminars are conducted as open discussions. Each seminar discussion section will concentrate on one or more (usually two) papers. Each week volunteers will offer a short (five minute) introduction to the assigned readings.