Exploring term Fall 2023 Change
- ACAN: Arts of Canada
- ADMN: Public Administration
- AE: Art Education
- AGEI: Ageing
- AHVS: Art History and Visual Studies
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- ART: Visual Arts
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- CE: Community Engagement
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- CIVE: Civil Engineering
- COM: Commerce
- CS: Canadian Studies
- CSC: Computer Science
- CW: Creative Writing (En'owkin Centre)
- CYC: Child and Youth Care
- DHUM: Digital Humanities
- DSST: Disability Studies (DSS)
- ECE: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- ED-D: Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
- ED-P: Curriculum and Instruction Studies
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- GNDR: Gender Studies
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- HDCC: Human Dimensions of Climate Change
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- SPAN: Spanish
- STAT: Statistics
- TCA: Transformative Climate Action
- THEA: Theatre
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- VIRS: Visiting International Research Studies
- VKUR: Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award
- WRIT: Writing
- PHIL100: Introduction to Philosophy
- PHIL201: Critical Thinking
- PHIL203: Elementary Formal Logic
- PHIL204: Traditions of Asian Philosophy
- PHIL207A: Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
- PHIL208: Introduction to Islamic Philosophy
- PHIL210: Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy
- PHIL211: Introduction to Existentialism
- PHIL220: Introduction to Philosophy of Science
- PHIL223: Introduction to Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- PHIL225: Death and Dying
- PHIL232: Moral Problems of Contemporary Society
- PHIL235: Ethics of Violence, War and Terrorism
- PHIL236: Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy
- PHIL238: Philosophy in Literature
- PHIL239: Philosophy and Feminism
- PHIL240: Introduction to Philosophy of Art
- PHIL251: Knowledge, Certainty and Skepticism
- PHIL252: Introduction to Metaphysics
- PHIL260: Introduction to Philosophy of Mind
- PHIL261: Philosophy of Religion
- PHIL290: Introduction to Selected Topics
- PHIL301: Plato
- PHIL303: Aristotle
- PHIL305A: Early Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL305B: Later Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL306: The Rationalists
- PHIL308: The Empiricists
- PHIL309: Kant
- PHIL311: Existentialist Thinkers
- PHIL314: 19th-Century Philosophy
- PHIL316: History of Analytic Philosophy
- PHIL321: Philosophy of Medicine
- PHIL330: Professional and Business Ethics
- PHIL331: Biomedical Ethics
- PHIL333: Philosophy and the Environment
- PHIL335: Contemporary Moral Philosophy
- PHIL336: Philosophy of Law
- PHIL337: Ethics: Theory and Practice
- PHIL338: Meta-ethics
- PHIL339: Theories of Justice
- PHIL351: Epistemology
- PHIL352: Metaphysics
- PHIL354: Philosophy of Language
- PHIL356: Philosophy of Science
- PHIL358: Theory of Perception
- PHIL360: Philosophy and Film
- PHIL362: Philosophy of Mind
- PHIL370: Theoretical Logic
- PHIL371: Logic
- PHIL375: Philosophy of Mathematics
- PHIL379: Early Greek Thought
- PHIL380: Wittgenstein
- PHIL383: The Life and Times of Socrates
- PHIL390: Topics in Philosophy
- PHIL391: Directed Studies in Philosophy
- PHIL420: Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science
- PHIL424: Advanced Studies in Ancient Philosophy
- PHIL426: Major Figures in Ancient Philosophy
- PHIL427: Advanced Studies in Early Modern Philosophy
- PHIL430: Advanced Ethics
- PHIL431: Advanced Biomedical Ethics
- PHIL433: Advanced Social and Political Philosophy
- PHIL436: Advanced Philosophy of Law
- PHIL440: Advanced Aesthetics
- PHIL450: Advanced Metaphysics
- PHIL451: Advanced Epistemology
- PHIL453: Advanced Theory of Perception
- PHIL460: Advanced Philosophy of Mind
- PHIL462: Advanced Philosophy of Language
- PHIL490: Advanced Topics in Philosophy
- PHIL491: Directed Studies in Philosophical Topics
PHIL223
Introduction to Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Philosophical issues in and raised by research in the social sciences. Topics may include: What is supposed to be scientific about the social sciences? How do the social sciences differ from the natural sciences and from the humanities? What makes a phenomenon "social"? Are some approaches and methodologies more suited to social investigation than others? Is objectivity possible or desirable in the study of social phenomena?
Lecture: 3h
Lab: 0h
Tutorial: 0h
Credits: 1.5