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graduate coursework in philosophy
The following is a list of courses completed at Syracuse University from 1991 until 1994, as part of the requirements for the doctoral program in philosophy. Also included is the fulfillment of comprehensive requirements.courses completed for credit
The following courses were offered by the Department of Philosophy of Syracuse University and taken for credit.- PHI 501: History of Ancient Philosophy - John Robertson
PHI 511: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz - C.L. Hardin
PHI 533: Philosophy of Mind - Robert Van Gulick
PHI 555: Philosophy of Mathematics - José Benardete
PHI 573: Philosophy of Physical Science - C.L. Hardin
PHI 583: Metaphysics - José Benardete
PHI 618: Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche - Linda Alcoff
PHI 641: Philosophical Theology: Faith and Reason - William P. Alston
PHI 641: Philosophical Theology: Nature of God - William P. Alston
PHI 650: Metaphysics - Peter van Inwagen
PHI 651: Logic and Language - Mark Brown
PHI 687: Contemporary Epistemology - William P. Alston
PHI 693: 20th Century Ethics - Lynn McFall
PHI 710: Greek Moral Theory - John Robertson
PHI 740: Section 1: Foucault - Linda Alcoff
PHI 750: Current Philosophical Problems: Free Will - Peter van Inwagen
PHI 750: Seminar on Causation - Jonathan Bennett
PHI 840: Seminar in Metaphysics: Abstract Objects - Peter van Inwagen
PHI 850: Seminar on Epistemology and Modality - David Johnson
PHI 860: Seminar in Ethics - Michael Stocker
courses auditted
The following were additional courses auditted and do not appear on official transcripts.- PHI 505: History of Medieval Philosophy - Georgette Sinkler
PHI 740: Section 2: Seminar on Post-Modernism and Post-Colonialism - Linda Alcoff
REL 600: Hermeneutics - James B. Wiggins
comprehensive requirements
Foreign Language - LatinEpistemology/Metaphysics Thesis - "Knowledge of Universals in John Duns Scotus"
Written Comprehensive Exam on the History of Philosophy - Ancient/Medieval and Early Modern
Oral Comprehensive Exam on the History of Philosophy- Friedrich Nietzsche