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PHIL 315

: Topics in Applied Logic
2021 Semester Two (1215)
A selection of topics in applied logic such as: modal logic (the logic of necessity and possibility), temporal logic (the logic of time), dynamic logic (the logic of change), and epistemic logic (the logic of knowledge and belief, including the logic of belief revision).
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 15 points from PHIL 222, 216 or 266
12427

PHIL 315

: Topics in Applied Logic
2020 Semester Two (1205)
A selection of topics in applied logic such as: modal logic (the logic of necessity and possibility), temporal logic (the logic of time), dynamic logic (the logic of change), and epistemic logic (the logic of knowledge and belief, including the logic of belief revision).
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: 15 points from PHIL 222, 216 or 266
12428

PHIL 323

: Philosophy of Logic
2022 Semester One (1223)
An introduction to philosophical logic, covering topics such as: paradoxes, non-classical logic, language and logic, conditionals. Emphasis is put on a back and forth dialogue between the methodologies of logic and philosophy.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: PHIL 222 or 30 points at Stage II in Philosohpy
12429

PHIL 323

: Philosophy of Logic
2020 Semester Two (1205)
An introduction to philosophical logic, covering topics such as: paradoxes, non-classical logic, language and logic, conditionals. Emphasis is put on a back and forth dialogue between the methodologies of logic and philosophy.
Subject: Philosophy
Prerequisite: PHIL 222 or 30 points at Stage II in Philosohpy
12430

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
12431

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
12432

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
12433

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
12434

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
12435

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
12436

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
12437

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
12438

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
12439

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
12440

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
12441

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
12442

PHIL 726

: Ethics 1
2022 Semester Two (1225)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
12443

PHIL 726

: Ethics 1
2020 Semester One (1203)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
12444

PHIL 727

: Ethics 2
2025 Semester One (1253)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
12445

PHIL 727

: Ethics 2
2023 Semester Two (1235)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
12446

PHIL 727

: Ethics 2
2021 Semester One (1213)
Discussion of selected topics in Ethics.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
12447

PHIL 728

: Political Philosophy 1
2024 Semester One (1243)
Discussion of selected topics in political philosophy.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
12448

PHIL 728

: Political Philosophy 1
2021 Semester One (1213)
Discussion of selected topics in political philosophy.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
12449

PHIL 729

: Political Philosophy 2
2025 Semester Two (1255)
Discussion of selected topics in political philosophy.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions
12450

PHIL 729

: Political Philosophy 2
2022 Semester One (1223)
Discussion of selected topics in political philosophy.
Subject: Philosophy
No pre-requisites or restrictions