Philosophy at Brown University

A suggested order for the 10 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PHIL coursework.

• PHIL 0540Logicopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• PHIL 0640Logicopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate PHIL work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 10 PHIL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 295 more PHIL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in PHIL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 1635

  1. PHIL 0640Logic
  2. PHIL 1635Advanced Deductive Logic

• 2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 1760

  1. PHIL 0540Logic
  2. PHIL 1760Philosophy of Language

• 2 courses deep, ending at PHIL 1855A

  1. CLPS 0300Introduction to Linguistics
  2. PHIL 1855ACompositional Semantics

Grade medians

Teaching in Spring 2027

Instructors on PHIL sections in Spring 2027, from the registrar's schedule.

• Adam Pautz
• B. Beizaei
• Bernard Reginster
• Brendan Fleig-Goldstein
• C. Hill
• David Christensen
• David Estlund
• Elizabeth Miller
• Emily Kress
• Eric Guindon
• Felicia Nimue Ackerman
• J. Broackes
• J. Schechter
• James Dreier
• Julia Netter
• Mary-Louise Gill
• Nomy Arpaly
• R. Heck
• Richard Kimberly Heck
• Ryan Doody
• Simone Gubler

Brown professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PHIL yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

Philosophy does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Brown campus feed.