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PHL159 classes

Philosophy classes at UT Austin

UT lists 159 PHL classes. 85 have grades since 2011, with a 3.37 average GPA and 42% A’s.

By Sulayman Bowles · Grade data updated

Lower-division classes 38

  1. PHL 301Introduction to Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.1730% A’s
  2. PHL 301KAncient Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.1728% A’s
  3. PHL 301LEarly Modern Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.1724% A’s
  4. PHL 302World Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20252.9824% A’s
  5. PHL 302CEthics and Enlightenment3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.1636% A’s
  6. PHL 303Human Nature3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.2943% A’s
  7. PHL 303MMind and Body3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.0734% A’s
  8. PHL 304Contemporary Moral Problems3 credit hours · grades through Summer 20263.4847% A’s
  9. PHL 304TIntroduction to Technology Ethics3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.4842% A’s
  10. PHL 305Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.2341% A’s
  11. PHL 306Topics in Philosophical Thinkers3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20243.7977% A’s
  12. PHL 306DDescartes3 credit hoursCatalog only
  13. PHL 306LMind, Matter, and Persons3 credit hoursCatalog only
  14. PHL 310Knowledge and Reality3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.1926% A’s
  15. PHL 610QProblems of Knowledge and Valuation6 credit hoursCatalog only
  16. PHL 610QAPROBS OF KNOWLEDGE & VALUATIONgrades through Fall 2025 · not in UT’s catalog3.7460% A’s
  17. PHL 610QBPROBS OF KNOWLEDGE & VALUATIONgrades through Spring 2026 · not in UT’s catalog3.7562% A’s
  18. PHL 311Argument3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20163.1736% A’s
  19. PHL 311KGames and Decisions3 credit hoursCatalog only
  20. PHL 312Introduction to Logic3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.1338% A’s
  21. PHL 313Introductory Symbolic Logic3 credit hours · grades through Summer 20263.0332% A’s
  22. PHL 313KLogic, Sets, and Functions3 credit hoursCatalog only
  23. PHL 313QLogic and Scientific Reasoning3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.3230% A’s
  24. PHL 315FPhilosophy and Film3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.5242% A’s
  25. PHL 315LPhilosophy and Literature3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.4645% A’s
  26. PHL 316KScience and Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20243.2434% A’s
  27. PHL 317KIntroduction to the Philosophy of the Arts3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.4949% A’s
  28. PHL 318Introduction to Ethics3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.4943% A’s
  29. PHL 318KIntroduction to Political Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.5052% A’s
  30. PHL 119STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  31. PHL 219STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  32. PHL 319STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  33. PHL 419STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  34. PHL 519STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  35. PHL 619STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  36. PHL 719STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  37. PHL 819STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  38. PHL 919STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only

Upper-division classes 95

  1. PHL 321KTheory of Knowledge3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.0920% A’s
  2. PHL 322Science and the Modern World3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.2733% A’s
  3. PHL 322KHistory of Ethics3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.4047% A’s
  4. PHL 323KMetaphysics3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.3744% A’s
  5. PHL 323MPhilosophy of Mind3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.5357% A’s
  6. PHL 323SPhilosophy of Science3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.4039% A’s
  7. PHL 325CENVIRONMENTAL ETHICSgrades through Fall 2019 · not in UT’s catalog3.5953% A’s
  8. PHL 325DEnvironmental Ethics and Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.4550% A’s
  9. PHL 325EBiomedical Ethics3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.5542% A’s
  10. PHL 325JHealth and Justice3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.7768% A’s
  11. PHL 325KEthical Theories3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.3431% A’s
  12. PHL 325LBusiness, Ethics, and Public Policy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20233.3743% A’s
  13. PHL 325MMedicine, Ethics, and Society3 credit hours · grades through Summer 20263.3834% A’s
  14. PHL 325NOrganizational Ethics3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20243.4950% A’s
  15. PHL 3274-INTERPRETATION AND MEANINGgrades through Fall 2018 · not in UT’s catalog3.2537% A’s
  16. PHL 328Nineteenth-Century Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.8884% A’s
  17. PHL 129STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  18. PHL 229STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  19. PHL 329CPlato and His Philosophy3 credit hoursCatalog only
  20. PHL 329DSpinoza's Philosophical System3 credit hoursCatalog only
  21. PHL 329EAristotle3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.5245% A’s
  22. PHL 329FSquaring the Vienna Circle3 credit hoursCatalog only
  23. PHL 329KHistory of Ancient Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.2232% A’s
  24. PHL 329LEarly Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.3439% A’s
  25. PHL 329MPLATO'S REPUBLICgrades through Spring 2018 · not in UT’s catalog3.1523% A’s
  26. PHL 329PKant's Critique of Pure Reason3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.2235% A’s
  27. PHL 329STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  28. PHL 329TThomas Aquinas and His Philosophy3 credit hoursCatalog only
  29. PHL 329UPerspectives on Science and Mathematics3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.4849% A’s
  30. PHL 429STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  31. PHL 529STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  32. PHL 629STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  33. PHL 729STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  34. PHL 829STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  35. PHL 929STopics in Philosophy1–9 credit hoursCatalog only
  36. PHL 332Philosophy of Language3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.4139% A’s
  37. PHL 332MInterpretation and Meaning3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20233.4039% A’s
  38. PHL 334FForensic Files: Philosophy Crimes3 credit hoursCatalog only
  39. PHL 334GHegel and His Heirs: Philosophy That Remade the West3 credit hoursCatalog only
  40. PHL 334KMARTIN HEIDEGGERgrades through Fall 2019 · not in UT’s catalog3.4239% A’s
  41. PHL 334MMartin Heidegger3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.7471% A’s
  42. PHL 334QGerman Scholars: US Exile3 credit hoursCatalog only
  43. PHL 342Topics in Political Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20243.6056% A’s
  44. PHL 342.1Natural Law Theory3 credit hoursCatalog only
  45. PHL 342CPhilosophy of Citizenship3 credit hoursCatalog only
  46. PHL 342LOrigins of Liberalism3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20252.8410% A’s
  47. PHL 342MMarx and Marxist Theory3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20233.8567% A’s
  48. PHL 342PFour Modern Political Theories3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20233.7873% A’s
  49. PHL 342RPhilosophy of Race and Gender3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.6660% A’s
  50. PHL 342TAdvanced Political Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.0341% A’s
  51. PHL 344KIntermediate Symbolic Logic3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20253.0027% A’s
  52. PHL 344MPhilosophy of Mathematics3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20223.0723% A’s
  53. PHL 346KAesthetics3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.4140% A’s
  54. PHL 347Philosophy of Law3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.2731% A’s
  55. PHL 348NATURAL THEOLOGY EAST AND WESTgrades through Fall 2018 · not in UT’s catalog3.3250% A’s
  56. PHL 348CClassical Chinese Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.8374% A’s
  57. PHL 348DChinese Ethics and Political Philosophy3 credit hoursCatalog only
  58. PHL 348GThe Bhagavad Gita: Interpretation and Ethics3 credit hoursCatalog only
  59. PHL 348PIndian Philosophies3 credit hoursCatalog only
  60. PHL 349History of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20213.5842% A’s
  61. PHL 3545-ORIGINS OF LIBERALISMgrades through Fall 2019 · not in UT’s catalog3.0935% A’s
  62. PHL 3562-YOGA AS PHILOS AND PRACTICEgrades through Fall 2019 · not in UT’s catalog3.0917% A’s
  63. PHL 356CContemporary Christian Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20243.6267% A’s
  64. PHL 356DHistory of Christian Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20243.5970% A’s
  65. PHL 356EBuddhist Thought and Practice3 credit hoursCatalog only
  66. PHL 358Philosophical Logic3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20203.5032% A’s
  67. PHL 361KPhilosophy in Literature3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.4649% A’s
  68. PHL 363Scientific Method3 credit hoursCatalog only
  69. PHL 363LTopics in Philosophy of Science3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.4437% A’s
  70. PHL 363L.1The Philosophy of Biology3 credit hoursCatalog only
  71. PHL 363L.2The Outer Limits of Reason3 credit hoursCatalog only
  72. PHL 363L.3Science and Metaphysics3 credit hoursCatalog only
  73. PHL 363L.5Biology and Society3 credit hoursCatalog only
  74. PHL 363L.6Philosophy and Computation3 credit hoursCatalog only
  75. PHL 365Topics in Selected Problems in Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.5054% A’s
  76. PHL 365.2Introduction to Cognitive Science3 credit hoursCatalog only
  77. PHL 365.6Process Philosophy and Pragmatism3 credit hoursCatalog only
  78. PHL 365MThe Meaning of Life3 credit hoursCatalog only
  79. PHL 365NThe Nature of Visual Consciousness3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.2344% A’s
  80. PHL 365PThe Pursuit of Happiness3 credit hoursCatalog only
  81. PHL 366KExistentialism3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.5761% A’s
  82. PHL 375MTopics in Major Seminar3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.3635% A’s
  83. PHL 375M.1Philosophy and Feminism3 credit hoursCatalog only
  84. PHL 375M.2Philosophy of David Hume3 credit hoursCatalog only
  85. PHL 375M.3Wittgenstein3 credit hoursCatalog only
  86. PHL 375M.4Philosophy of the First Amendment3 credit hoursCatalog only
  87. PHL 375M.5Major Ethical Theories3 credit hoursCatalog only
  88. PHL 375M.6Studies in Epistemology3 credit hoursCatalog only
  89. PHL 375M.7Foundational Issues In Metaphysics3 credit hoursCatalog only
  90. PHL 375M.8History of Metaphysics3 credit hoursCatalog only
  91. PHL 375M.9The Philosophy of Privacy3 credit hoursCatalog only
  92. PHL 375M.10Philosophy of Action3 credit hoursCatalog only
  93. PHL 375M.11Constitutional Law and Theory3 credit hoursCatalog only
  94. PHL 379KConference Course3 credit hoursCatalog only
  95. PHL 679HHonors Tutorial Course6 credit hoursCatalog only

Graduate and professional classes 26

  1. PHL 380Topics in Contemporary Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20243.8869% A’s
  2. PHL 380NFrench-German Philosophy and Theory3 credit hoursCatalog only
  3. PHL 381Topics in History of Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.7964% A’s
  4. PHL 382Topics in Metaphysics3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.9074% A’s
  5. PHL 383Topics in Theory of Knowledge3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.8563% A’s
  6. PHL 383CIntroduction to Cognitive Science3 credit hoursCatalog only
  7. PHL 384FFirst-Year Seminar3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.8462% A’s
  8. PHL 384KThe Analytic Tradition3 credit hoursCatalog only
  9. PHL 385Topics in Theory of Value3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20263.9591% A’s
  10. PHL 386Topics in Philosophy of Science3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20193.7143% A’s
  11. PHL 387Topics in Ethical, Political, and Legal Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20253.8871% A’s
  12. PHL 387CIntersectionality: Identity and Politics3 credit hoursCatalog only
  13. PHL 188Conference Course1 or 3 credit hoursCatalog only
  14. PHL 388Conference Course1 or 3 credit hoursCatalog only
  15. PHL 388CProspectus Course3 credit hoursCatalog only
  16. PHL 389Topics in Logic3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20143.7550% A’s
  17. PHL 391Topics in Logic and Philosophy3 credit hours · grades through Fall 20233.8368% A’s
  18. PHL 394KPhilosophy of Language3 credit hours · grades through Spring 20224.00100% A’s
  19. PHL 396MJob Market3 credit hoursCatalog only
  20. PHL 396WDissertation Seminar3 credit hoursCatalog only
  21. PHL 398RMaster's Report3 credit hoursCatalog only
  22. PHL 398TSupervised Teaching in Philosophy3 credit hoursCatalog only
  23. PHL 698Thesis6 credit hoursCatalog only
  24. PHL 399WDissertation3, 6, or 9 credit hoursCatalog only
  25. PHL 699WDissertation3, 6, or 9 credit hoursCatalog only
  26. PHL 999WDissertation3, 6, or 9 credit hoursCatalog only

How we got this

Class names, credit hours and descriptions come from UT’s Philosophy catalog page, checked October 27, 2026.

Grades come from UT’s grade dashboard. We combine every letter grade since Summer 2011, so bigger classes count for more. A’s counts A grades; A− has its own bar on each class page. How the averages are calculated.

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