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2001
PHIL 345
: Power, Critique and Emancipation2021 Semester Two (1215)
What is power? When are relations of power are legitimate and illegitimate? How is power structured in the modern world? How can illegitimate structures of power can be resisted and reordered to promote justice and human flourishing? This course examines and analyses cultural, economic, political and epistemic structures of power, including gender, race, and class.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 225
Restriction: PHIL 225
2002
PHIL 345
: Power, Critique and Emancipation2020 Semester One (1203)
An examination of support for political struggles for freedom, justice and recognition through the philosophical critique of modern society. Topics include science and technology, bureaucratisation, social control, social alienation, mass communication, the commodification of culture, and the idea of critique. Theorists may include Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, Arendt, Habermas and Honneth.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 225
Restriction: PHIL 225
2003
PHIL 351
: Philosophy and the Environment2024 Semester Two (1245)
Philosophical questions relating to the environment and our use of it, such as the following: Do we have obligations to future generations, especially concerning preservation of the environment? What are our moral and epistemic responsibilities regarding climate change and other environmental issues? Does nature have intrinsic value? Is it better to live in a natural world or a virtual world?
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Global Environment and Sustainable Development or Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 250
Restriction: PHIL 250
2004
PHIL 351
: Philosophy and the Environment2023 Semester Two (1235)
Philosophical questions relating to the environment and our use of it, such as the following: Do we have obligations to future generations, especially concerning preservation of the environment? What are our moral and epistemic responsibilities regarding climate change and other environmental issues? Does nature have intrinsic value? Is it better to live in a natural world or a virtual world?
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Global Environment and Sustainable Development or Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 250
Restriction: PHIL 250
2005
PHIL 360
: Philosophy of Science2023 Semester Two (1235)
Addresses philosophical questions about science, such as: What distinguishes science from pseudoscience? How is scientific knowledge generated and structured? Should we believe scientific claims about things we cannot directly observe? Do scientific theories give us true accounts of the world? Examines philosophical accounts of science and cases from historical and contemporary scientific research. A background in science is not expected.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 260
Restriction: PHIL 260
2006
PHIL 360
: Philosophy of Science2021 Semester Two (1215)
What makes science a distinctive way of discovering knowledge about our world whether natural, biological or social? Ever since science started in Ancient Greece, a number of different theories about the worldview, methods and rationality of science have been proposed that distinguish it from religion, pseudo-science and myth. The course examines some of these accounts of the nature of science.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 260
Restriction: PHIL 260
2007
PHIL 361
: Metaphysical Structures of the World2020 Semester One (1203)
Metaphysics attempts to give a quite general picture of the nature and structure of the world, and particularly investigates philosophical problems which thereby arise. Science, common sense, religions and cultures all presuppose metaphysical worldviews. Traditional metaphysical problems concern laws, causation, time, space, substance, identity, attributes and universals, free will, reality, existence etc. Course topics will be selected from such traditional problems.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or PHIL 260 and SCIGEN 201
Restriction: PHIL 261
Restriction: PHIL 261
2008
PHIL 363
: Philosophy of Biology2022 Semester One (1223)
Examines philosophical and conceptual issues in the life sciences. Topics may include the units and levels of selection, adaptationism, the evolution of altruism, biology and ethics, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution, evolution versus creationism, and the origin and nature of life.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or PHIL 260 and SCIGEN 201
Restriction: PHIL 263
Restriction: PHIL 263
2009
PHIL 363
: Philosophy of Biology2020 Semester Two (1205)
Examines philosophical and conceptual issues in the life sciences. Topics may include the units and levels of selection, adaptationism, the evolution of altruism, biology and ethics, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution, evolution versus creationism, and the origin and nature of life.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or PHIL 260 and SCIGEN 201
Restriction: PHIL 263
Restriction: PHIL 263
2010
PHIL 368
: Ethical Theory2022 Semester One (1223)
Philosophical study of moral theory, in both normative ethics and meta-ethics. Topics covered may include: accounts of well-being such as hedonism, preference theory, and objectivism; theories of right action such as consequentialism and contractualism; the demandingness of morality; the role of intuitions in moral theory; and the status and justification of moral theories.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or 15 points from PHIL 205, 210, 250, or POLITICS 209 or 30 points at Stage II in Global Politics and Human Rights
Restriction: PHIL 268
Restriction: PHIL 268
2011
PHIL 368
: Ethical Theory2020 Semester One (1203)
Philosophical study of moral theory, in both normative ethics and meta-ethics. Topics covered may include: accounts of well-being such as hedonism, preference theory, and objectivism; theories of right action such as consequentialism and contractualism; the demandingness of morality; the role of intuitions in moral theory; and the status and justification of moral theories.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or 15 points from PHIL 205, 210, 250, or POLITICS 209 or 30 points at Stage II in Global Politics and Human Rights
Restriction: PHIL 268
Restriction: PHIL 268
2012
PHIL 726
: Ethics 12022 Semester Two (1225)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2013
PHIL 726
: Ethics 12020 Semester One (1203)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2014
PHIL 727
: Ethics 22023 Semester Two (1235)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2015
PHIL 727
: Ethics 22021 Semester One (1213)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2016
PHIL 728
: Political Philosophy 12024 Semester One (1243)
Discussion of selected topics in political philosophy.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2017
PHIL 728
: Political Philosophy 12021 Semester One (1213)
Discussion of selected topics in political philosophy.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2018
PHIL 729
: Political Philosophy 22022 Semester One (1223)
Discussion of selected topics in political philosophy.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2019
PHIL 731
: Philosophy of the Arts 12021 Semester Two (1215)
Discussion of selected topics in philosophy of the arts.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2020
PHIL 732
: Philosophy of the Arts 22020 Semester One (1203)
Discussion of selected topics in philosophy of the arts.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2021
PHIL 736
: Logic 12023 Semester Two (1235)
Discussion of selected topics in logic.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2022
PHIL 736
: Logic 12021 Semester One (1213)
Discussion of selected topics in logic.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2023
PHIL 737
: Logic 22024 Semester One (1243)
Discussion of selected topics in logic.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2024
PHIL 737
: Logic 22022 Semester Two (1225)
Discussion of selected topics in logic.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2025
PHIL 737
: Logic 22020 Semester Two (1205)
Discussion of selected topics in logic.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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