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Stanford
Department of Philosophy
School of Humanities and Sciences

Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

PHIL 1
Introduction to Philosophy

Wong-Taylor, G. (PI)
Amaral, J. (TA)
Koeksal, S. (TA)
Pereira, A. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 2
Introduction to Moral Philosophy (ETHICSOC 20)

Gottlieb, D. (TA)
Luo, A. (TA)
Madigan, T. (PI)
Spencer, L. (TA)
Bible, M. (TA)
Kang, S. (TA)
Tricks, T. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 2
Introduction to Moral Philosophy (ETHICSOC 20)

Madigan, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 11N
Skepticism

Lawlor, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 12N
Animal Cognition (SYMSYS 12N)

Icard, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 14N
Why Games Matter: The Philosophy of Play

Cao, R. (PI)
ORourke, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 28S
Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

2025 - 2026
Summer

PHIL 30
Democracy and Disagreement (COMM 3, CSRE 31, HISTORY 3C, POLISCI 31, PSYCH 31A, PUBLPOL 3, RELIGST 23X, SOC 13)

Brest, P. (PI)
Satz, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
3:00 PM
4:50 PM

PHIL 34S
What makes us Human -- Self-Deception

2025 - 2026
Summer

PHIL 37S
Philosophy of Food

2025 - 2026
Summer

PHIL 49
Survey of Formal Methods

Hussain, N. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 72
Contemporary Moral Problems (ETHICSOC 185M, POLISCI 134P)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 74A
Ethics in a Human Life (ETHICSOC 174, HUMBIO 174A)

Madigan, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM

PHIL 80
Mind, Matter, and Meaning

Tan, J. (PI)
Teitel, T. (PI)
Wang, Z. (PI)
Huang, S. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 80
Mind, Matter, and Meaning

Crimmins, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 81
Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, SLAVIC 181)

Nowak, E. (PI)
Ilchuk, Y. (PI)
Virker, A. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 82
Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change (COMM 180, CS 182, ETHICSOC 182, POLISCI 182, PUBLPOL 182)

Sahami, M. (PI)
Reich, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday Friday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 99
Minds and Machines (CS 24, LINGUIST 35, PSYCH 35, SYMSYS 1, SYMSYS 200)

Frank, M. (PI)
Krejci, B. (PI)
Goodman, N. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday Friday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM

PHIL 99
Minds and Machines (CS 24, LINGUIST 35, PSYCH 35, SYMSYS 1, SYMSYS 200)

Wu, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 100
The History of Ancient Greek Philosophy (CLASSICS 40)

Sparling, R. (TA)
Apsel, L. (PI)
Bobonich, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

PHIL 102
Modern Philosophy, Descartes to Kant

Wong-Taylor, G. (PI)
Hall, Z. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 108A
Logic, Language, and Material Text in the Aristotelian Tradition (PHIL 208A)

Code, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 108B
Aristotle's Physics Book One (PHIL 208B)

Code, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 116C
Happiness and Tragedy in Ancient and Modern Philosophy (PHIL 216C)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

PHIL 128
Kant and German Idealism (PHIL 228)

Wong-Taylor, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 132
Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty (PHIL 232)

Jackson, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 134A
Phenomenology: Animals (PHIL 234A)

Jackson, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 137
Wittgenstein (PHIL 237)

Hills, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 138W
The History of Analytic Philosophy: 1884-1953 (PHIL 238W)

Wong-Taylor, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 150
Mathematical Logic (PHIL 250)

Icard, T. (PI)
Goddu, M. (TA)
Bassett, R. (TA)
Konstantinou, K. (TA)
Van Steertegem, C. (TA)
Skott, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 151
Metalogic (PHIL 251)

Icard, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 152
Computability and Logic (PHIL 252)

Icard, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 154
Modal Logic (PHIL 254)

van Benthem, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 160
Philosophy of Science (PHIL 260)

Hussain, N. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
9:00 AM
10:20 AM

PHIL 162
Philosophy of Mathematics (PHIL 262)

Warren, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
7:30 PM
8:50 PM

PHIL 165
Philosophy of Physics: Philosophical Issues in Quantum Mechanics (PHIL 265)

Ryckman, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 167D
Philosophy of Neuroscience (PHIL 267D, SYMSYS 167D)

Cao, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
9:00 AM
10:20 AM

PHIL 167E
Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology (PHIL 267E)

Sober, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 170
Ethical Theory (ETHICSOC 170, PHIL 270)

Lichter, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 171
Justice (ETHICSOC 171, INTNLREL 103, POLISCI 103, POLISCI 336S, PUBLPOL 103C)

Coyne, B. (PI)
Sugarman, E. (TA)
DeJarnett, C. (TA)
Salamanca, E. (TA)
Scott, E. (TA)
Steffann, O. (TA)
Townsend, K. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 171P
Liberalism and its Critics (ETHICSOC 130, POLISCI 130)

Coyne, B. (PI)
Kay, J. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 172B
The History of Early Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke (PHIL 272B)

Bobonich, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 173A
Moral Psychology (PHIL 273A)

Lichter, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 174
Ethics Beyond Consequences (PHIL 274)

Eggert, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 174L
Justice Across Borders (ETHICSOC 174L)

Wenar, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 176A
Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSICS 181, CLASSICS 381, ETHICSOC 130A, PHIL 276A, POLISCI 230A, POLISCI 330A)

Salamanca, E. (TA)
Ober, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 176L
That Mortal God: Deifying the Political in Early Modern Politics (JEWISHST 176L, JEWISHST 276L, PHIL 276L)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 176P
Democratic Theory (ETHICSOC 234, POLISCI 234)

Coyne, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 176T
Moral Responsibility & Free Will (PHIL 276T)

Madigan, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 178
Ethics in Society Honors Seminar (ETHICSOC 190)

Coyne, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM

PHIL 179B
Feminist Ethics (PHIL 279B)

Sicilia, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 179R
Feminist Philosophy (FEMGEN 179R, PHIL 279R)

Sicilia, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 180
Metaphysics (PHIL 280)

Teitel, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 181A
Philosophy of Language (PHIL 281A)

Nowak, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 181B
Topics in Philosophy of Language (PHIL 281B)

Crimmins, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 181C
Linguistic Justice

Nowak, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

PHIL 184
Epistemology (PHIL 284)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

PHIL 187
Philosophy of Action (PHIL 287)

Bratman, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 187B
Responsibility and the Criminal Law (PHIL 287B)

Sugarman, E. (TA)
Bratman, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 188A
Explanation (PHIL 288A)

Hussain, N. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 194B
Capstone Seminar

Jackson, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 194E
Capstone Seminar: When Bad People Create Beautiful Things

Eggert, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 194F
Capstone seminar: Beauty and Other Forms of Value

Hills, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 196
Honors Tutorial, Senior Year

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

PHIL 196
Honors Tutorial, Senior Year

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

PHIL 196
Honors Tutorial, Senior Year

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

PHIL 197
Individual Work, Undergraduate

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

PHIL 197
Individual Work, Undergraduate

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

PHIL 197
Individual Work, Undergraduate

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

PHIL 199
Seminar for Prospective Honors Students

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday
11:30 AM
12:20 PM

PHIL 208A
Logic, Language, and Material Text in the Aristotelian Tradition (PHIL 108A)

Code, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 208B
Aristotle's Physics Book One (PHIL 108B)

Code, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 228
Kant and German Idealism (PHIL 128)

Wong-Taylor, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 234A
Phenomenology: Animals (PHIL 134A)

Jackson, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 237
Wittgenstein (PHIL 137)

Hills, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 238W
The History of Analytic Philosophy: 1884-1953 (PHIL 138W)

Wong-Taylor, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 239
Teaching Methods in Philosophy

Kemmann, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
12:30 PM
1:20 PM

PHIL 239
Teaching Methods in Philosophy

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday
1:30 PM
2:20 PM

PHIL 240
Individual Work for Graduate Students

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

PHIL 240
Individual Work for Graduate Students

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

PHIL 240
Individual Work for Graduate Students

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

PHIL 250
Mathematical Logic (PHIL 150)

Icard, T. (PI)
Goddu, M. (TA)
Bassett, R. (TA)
Konstantinou, K. (TA)
Van Steertegem, C. (TA)
Skott, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 251
Metalogic (PHIL 151)

Icard, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 252
Computability and Logic (PHIL 152)

Icard, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 254
Modal Logic (PHIL 154)

van Benthem, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 260
Philosophy of Science (PHIL 160)

Hussain, N. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
9:00 AM
10:20 AM

PHIL 265
Philosophy of Physics: Philosophical Issues in Quantum Mechanics (PHIL 165)

Ryckman, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 267D
Philosophy of Neuroscience (PHIL 167D, SYMSYS 167D)

Cao, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
9:00 AM
10:20 AM

PHIL 267E
Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology (PHIL 167E)

Sober, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 270
Ethical Theory (ETHICSOC 170, PHIL 170)

Lichter, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 272B
The History of Early Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke (PHIL 172B)

Bobonich, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 273A
Moral Psychology (PHIL 173A)

Lichter, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 274
Ethics Beyond Consequences (PHIL 174)

Eggert, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 276A
Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSICS 181, CLASSICS 381, ETHICSOC 130A, PHIL 176A, POLISCI 230A, POLISCI 330A)

Salamanca, E. (TA)
Ober, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 276T
Moral Responsibility & Free Will (PHIL 176T)

Madigan, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 279B
Feminist Ethics (PHIL 179B)

Sicilia, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 279R
Feminist Philosophy (FEMGEN 179R, PHIL 179R)

Sicilia, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 280
Metaphysics (PHIL 180)

Teitel, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 281A
Philosophy of Language (PHIL 181A)

Nowak, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 281B
Topics in Philosophy of Language (PHIL 181B)

Crimmins, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 284
Epistemology (PHIL 184)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

PHIL 284P
Probability and Epistemology

Warren, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

PHIL 287
Philosophy of Action (PHIL 187)

Bratman, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 287B
Responsibility and the Criminal Law (PHIL 187B)

Sugarman, E. (TA)
Bratman, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 288A
Explanation (PHIL 188A)

Hussain, N. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 300
Proseminar

Teitel, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday
5:30 PM
8:20 PM

PHIL 301
Dissertation Development Proseminar

Crimmins, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
5:30 PM
6:50 PM

PHIL 301
Dissertation Development Proseminar

Crimmins, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

PHIL 312
Aristotle's Ethical Psychology

Bobonich, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
3:30 PM
5:20 PM

PHIL 313C
Aristotle's Metaphysics

Code, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 317C
Plato's Ethics

Bobonich, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 325
Kant's Third Critique

Hills, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 333
Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (DLCL 333, ENGLISH 333, MUSIC 332)

Hills, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 352
Advanced Set Theory

Sommer, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 355
Philosophy of Applied Mathematics

Hussain, N. (PI)
Warren, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 359
Logic Spring Seminar

Icard, T. (PI)
van Benthem, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

PHIL 365
Seminar in Philosophy of Physics

Ryckman, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

PHIL 366C
Cognitive Science & Machine Learning

Cao, R. (PI)
Icard, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

PHIL 370E
Adventures in Non-Consequentialist Ethics

Eggert, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 370W
Consequentialism

Wenar, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 371A
Relational Morality

Lichter, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday
3:30 PM
6:20 PM

PHIL 381
PhD Seminar: Topics in the Philosophy of Language

Crimmins, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 382
Preservation Ethics

Nowak, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

PHIL 383
Advanced Topics in Epistemology

Lawlor, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 387
Graduate Research Seminar in Philosophy of Action

Bratman, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 450
Thesis

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

PHIL 450
Thesis

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

PHIL 450
Thesis

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

PHIL 500
Advanced Dissertation Seminar

Warren, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM

PHIL 801
TGR Project

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

PHIL 801
TGR Project

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

PHIL 801
TGR Project

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

PHIL 802
TGR Dissertation

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

PHIL 802
TGR Dissertation

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

PHIL 802
TGR Dissertation

Anderson, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring