Search Course Outline

Search

Showing 25 course outlines from 3977 matches

2351

PHIL 338

: Problems in Epistemology
2020 Semester One (1203)
Epistemology is the study of knowledge, rationality, belief and related topics. This course will give an overview of epistemology but will focus on three main issues: foundationalism versus coherentism, internalism versus externalism and replies to scepticism.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 218
2352

PHIL 340

: Kant and Hegel
2024 Semester Two (1245)
An examination of the development of German idealism from Kant to Hegel, focusing on Kant's <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i> (1781-1787) and Hegel's <i>Phenomenology of Spirit</i> (1807).
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy, or EUROPEAN 100 and 15 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 220
2353

PHIL 340

: Kant and Hegel
2022 Semester Two (1225)
An examination of the development of German idealism from Kant to Hegel, focusing on Kant's <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i> (1781-1787) and Hegel's <i>Phenomenology of Spirit</i> (1807).
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy, or EUROPEAN 100 and 15 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 220
2354

PHIL 340

: Kant and Hegel
2020 Semester One (1203)
An examination of the development of German idealism from Kant to Hegel, focusing on Kant's <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i> (1781-1787) and Hegel's <i>Phenomenology of Spirit</i> (1807).
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy, or EUROPEAN 100 and 15 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 220
2355

PHIL 345

: Power, Critique and Emancipation
2025 Semester One (1253)
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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or 60 points passed at Stage II
Restriction: PHIL 225
2356

PHIL 345

: Power, Critique and Emancipation
2024 Semester One (1243)
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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or 60 points passed at Stage II
Restriction: PHIL 225
2357

PHIL 345

: Power, Critique and Emancipation
2023 Semester One (1233)
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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Communication or Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 225
2358

PHIL 345

: Power, Critique and Emancipation
2022 Semester Two (1225)
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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Communication or Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 225
2359

PHIL 345

: Power, Critique and Emancipation
2021 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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 225
2360

PHIL 345

: Power, Critique and Emancipation
2020 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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 225
2361

PHIL 351

: Philosophy and the Environment
2024 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?
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Global Environment and Sustainable Development or Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 250
2362

PHIL 351

: Philosophy and the Environment
2023 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?
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Global Environment and Sustainable Development or Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 250
2363

PHIL 360

: Philosophy of Science
2023 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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 260
2364

PHIL 360

: Philosophy of Science
2021 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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restriction: PHIL 260
2365

PHIL 361

: Metaphysical Structures of the World
2020 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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or PHIL 260 and SCIGEN 201
Restriction: PHIL 261
2366

PHIL 363

: Philosophy of Biology
2025 Semester Two (1255)
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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or PHIL 260 and SCIGEN 201
Restriction: PHIL 263
2367

PHIL 363

: Philosophy of Biology
2022 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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or PHIL 260 and SCIGEN 201
Restriction: PHIL 263
2368

PHIL 363

: Philosophy of Biology
2020 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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy or PHIL 260 and SCIGEN 201
Restriction: PHIL 263
2369

PHIL 368

: Ethical Theory
2025 Semester One (1253)
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.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Global Politics and Human Rights or Philosophy or PHIL 250 or POLITICS 209
Restriction: PHIL 268
2370

PHIL 368

: Ethical Theory
2022 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.
Subject: Philosophy
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
2371

PHIL 368

: Ethical Theory
2020 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.
Subject: Philosophy
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
2372

PHIL 726

: Ethics 1
2022 Semester Two (1225)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2373

PHIL 726

: Ethics 1
2020 Semester One (1203)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2374

PHIL 727

: Ethics 2
2025 Semester One (1253)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2375

PHIL 727

: Ethics 2
2023 Semester Two (1235)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions