For current course descriptions see the undergraduate course offerings page or graduate course offerings page.

Recently Offered Graduate Courses

• 2501 Core seminar in philosophy of science 
• 2502 Core seminar in history of science I
• 2503 Core seminar in history of science II
• 2505 Philosophical foundations of cognitive science
• 2510 Newton's Principia 
• 2511 Genesis and Geology 
• 2517 The mechanical philosophy of the 17th century 
• 2520 Newton 
• 2522 Special topics in history of science 
• 2525 20th-century biology 
• 2526 History of relativity theory 
• 2528 Galileo 
• 2532 History of quantum theory 
• 2533 Descartes 
• 2534 General relativity and gravitation 
• 2535 Nature and laws of nature and the renaissance 
• 2536 Laws of Nature
• 2538 Early modern philosophy of science 
• 2542 Hobbes and Spinoza 
• 2547 Aristotle's philosophy of science 
• 2553 Darwin's Origin 
• 2571 Going Molecular 
• 2590 Einstein 1905 
• 2621 Dispositions and Causal Powers 
• 2622 Recent Topics in Philosophy of Science 
• 2626 Recent Topics in Philosophy of Physics 
• 2630 Cognition & Knowledge 
• 2631 Method and Interpretation in Cognitive Neuroscience
• 2632 Philosophy of Neuroscience 
• 2633 Philosophy of Cognitive Science 
• 2634 Topics in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
• 2635 Central Problems in Systems Neuroscience
• 2640 Consciousness, Emotion, and Neuroscience 
• 2653 Models and Modeling in Science 
• 2654 19th Century of Science 
• 2659 Neurobiology and reduction
• 2660 Causality 
• 2666 Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science
• 2663 Perception
• 2667 Philosophy of quantum mechanics 
• 2668 Topics in philosophy of biology
• 2669 Realism 
• 2671 Models of scientific change 
• 2673 Studies in Aristotle 
• 2675 Philosophy of space and time 
• 2679 Historical perspectives in philosophy of mathematics 
• 2682 Theories of confirmation 
• 2683 Philosophy of social science 
• 2687 Epistemology of Experimental Practices
• 2690 History and philosophy of psychology 
• 2497 Teaching practicum 
• 2902 Pre-MA directed study 
• 2990 Independent study 
• 2999 Prospectus Research 
• 3000 Dissertation research 
• 3902 Advanced directed study 

Less Offered Graduate Courses

• 2508 J. J. Gibson and Ecological Theories of Perception and cognition 
• 2509 Special Topics in the History of Philosophy of Science 
• 2515 Perspectives in History of Science
• 2524 Experimental History and Philosophy of Science
• 2530 Reading seminar in history of science 
• 2531 Freud and psychoanalysis 
• 2537 Historiography of science
• 2541 Aristotle's Science and Metaphysics
• 2543 Thomas Hobbes: Science, Psychology, Language, Mathematics, Politics and Religion
• 2544 Understanding Aristotle's Teleology
• 2545 Aristotle's biology 
• 2555 Aristotle’s concept of natural science
• 2556 Aristotle's matter theory 
• 2559 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics 
• 2560 The Molecular Revolution in Biology 
• 2562 Probability and Statistics 
• 2563 History of Medicine
• 2565 The Gene: The Transformation and fragmentation of a Concept
• 2567 William Harvey’s Natural Philosophy
• 2580 Modern Cosmology 
• 2585 Evolutionary Theory
• 2586 History, Philosophy and Systematics of Becoming Human: the underpinning of paleoanthropology and the study of human evolution
• 2587 Evolutionary Theory II
• 2599 Historical and Philosophical Issues in Behavioral Genetics 
• 2623 Perspectives in Philosophy of Science
• 2624 Philosophy of Classical and Quantum Mechanics 
• 2625 Mathematics for Foundations 
• 2627 Philosophy of Physics
• 2629 Race: Biology, Psychology, Ethics
• 2641 Experimental Philosophy 
• 2642 Determinism 
• 2645 Topics in Philosophy of Psychology
• 2648 Science and Philosophy in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 
• 2649 Science & Values
• 2650 Philosophy of Psychiatry 
• 2651 History and Philosophy of Economics 
• 2652 Recent Topics in the Philosophy of Social Sciences 
• 2657 Philosophy of Biology
• 2658 Philosophy of medicine 
• 2665 Theory Construction in Psychology
• 2666 Seminar On Inductive Inference 
• 2670 Topics in the sociology of knowledge
• 2677 Foundations of Quantum Field Theory 
• 2701 Philosophy of Psychoanalysis I 
• 2672 Philosophy of biology and medicine 
• 2674 Artificial intelligence and the logic of discovery 
• 2676 Carnap and Reichenbach
• 2680 Reading seminar in philosophy of science 
• 2684 Perceptual theory and experimentation 
• 2686 Causality in the social sciences 
• 2688 Scientific Explanation 
• 2691 Perspectives in History and Philosophy of Science
• 2693 Philosophy of science in the humanities 
• 2697 Knowledge Representation 
• 2699 Experiment and Scientific Practice
• 2720 Pragmatism 
• 2904 MA Thesis Research 

Recently Offered Undergraduate Courses 

• 0410 Einstein for Everyone: Modern Science and its Surprise
• 0427 Myth and Science: cross-listed with CLASS 0330
• 0430 Galileo and the creation of modern science
• 0437 Darwinism
• 0515 Magic, Medicine, and Science: cross-listed with HIST 0089
• 0517 Thinking about the Environment 
• 0605 The Nature of Emotions 
• 0610 Causal Reasoning 
• 0611 Principles of Scientific Reasoning 
• 0612 Mind and Medicine
• 0613 Morality and Medicine
• 0621 Problem Solving: How Science Works 
• 0623 Explanations of Humans and Society
• 0630 Science and Pseudoscience
• 0633 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy
• 1531 Man and the Cosmos in the European Renaissance 
• 1600 Philosophy and the Rise of Modern Science: cross-listed with PHIL 1600
• 1602 Race: History, Biology, Psychology, Philosophy 
• 1605 Aesthetics and Science
• 1612 Philosophy of 20th Century Physics 
• 1616 Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Science
• 1620 Philosophy of Biology: cross-listed with PHIL 1650 
• 1627 Living with Technology
• 1653 Seminar in Philosophy of Science
• 1660 Paradox: cross-listed with PHIL 1660 
• 1670 Philosophy of Neuroscience: cross-listed with PHIL 1670 
• 1690 Topics in Philosophy of Science: cross-listed with PHIL 1690 
• 1702 Junior/Senior Seminar for HPS Undergraduate Majors

Less Offered Undergraduate Courses

• 0419 Revolutions and Revolutionaries 
• 0437 Darwinsim and its Critics 
• 0545 Space-Time-Matter: Antiquity to the 20th Century
• 0546 Space-Time-Matter Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0545; 1 credit.
• 0547 Space-Time-Matter Writing Practicum: co-requisite HPS 0545; 0 credits.
• 0614 Mind and Medicine Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0612; offered Fall Term; 1 credit.
• 0615 Mind and Medicine Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0612; 0 credits.
• 0620 Science and Religion: cross-listed with PHIL 0840; UHC
• 0624 Explanations of Humans and Society Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0623; 1 credit.
• 0625 Explanations of Humans and Society Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0623; 0 credits.
• 0626 Development of Modern Biology
• 0634 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0633; 0 credits.
• 0635 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0633; 1 credit.
• 1407 Einstein
• 1410 Change, Progress, and Ideology
• 1502 Astrology and Witchcraft 
• 1508 Classics in the History of Science
• 1600 Philosophy and the Rise of Modern Science: cross-listed with PHIL 1600
• 1610 Philosophy of Anthropology: cross-listed with PHIL 1630, ANTH 1710
• 1615 Philosophy of Social Science
• 1625 Philosophy of Medicine
• 1682 Freedom and Determinism
• 1703 Writing Workshop for HPS Undergraduate Majors
• 1800 Special Topics in History and Philosophy of Science
• 1901 Independent Study: registration by permission from department only; may be taken as UHC; variable credits 1-6.