Étudiants de philosophie

Department of philosophy graduate courses

Graduate programs require to take a certain amount of graduate courses (also called seminars). The department of philosophy at University of Ottawa designs each year an offer that covers a wide range of specializations in both French and English language.

Seminar titles

2025 Fall Semester

  • PHI 5333: Modern Philosophy. Kant, Herder and the Philosophy of Life (Nigel DeSouza)
  • PHI 5343: Metaphysics. Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind: Subjective Spirit (Jeffrey Reid)
  • PHI 5742: Épistémologie et philosopihe des sciences. La Vérité en question (Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel)
  • PHI 5746: Philosophie sociale et politique. Liberté, efficience et égalité : Trois raisons de la taxation (David Robichaud)
  • PHI 6102: Selected Problems. Consciousness and Volition: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Vincent Bergeron)

2026 Winter Semester

  • PHI 5319: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. Film, Scepticism and Comedies of Remarriage (Patrice Philie)
  • PHI 5323: Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Ultimate Truth, Ultimate Reality in Madhyamaka Philosophy (Catherine Collobert)
  • PHI 5326: Metaethics.  Methodology in Moral Philosophy (Andrew Sneddon)
  • PHI 5343: Metaphysics. Aristotle, Heidegger and Derrida on Life and World. (Francisco Gonzalez)
  • PHI 5733: Philosophie moderne. La Philosophie de l’histoire aux 17e-18e siècles en France (Mitia Rioux-Beaulne)
  • PHI 5746: Philosophie sociale et politique. Les Théories de la démocratie dans l’espace philosophique de langue française (Étienne Brown)