Philosophy
Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Philosophy |
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Major |
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A major in Philosophy requires 48 credit points from this table including: | |||
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level units | |||
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units | |||
(iii) 18 credit points of 3000-level units | |||
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units | |||
Minor |
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A minor in Philosophy requires 36 credit points from this table including: | |||
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level units | |||
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units | |||
(iii) 12 credit points of 3000-level units | |||
1000 level units of study |
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PHIL1011 Reality, Ethics and Beauty |
6 | N PHIL1003 or PHIL1004 or PHIL1006 or PHIL1008 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL1012 Introductory Logic |
6 | Intensive July Semester 2 |
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PHIL1013 Society, Knowledge and Self |
6 | N PHIL1010 |
Semester 2 |
2000 level units of study |
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PHIL2605 Early Modern Theories of Perception |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3005 or PHIL2005 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2606 Knowledge, Reason and Action |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2607 Eighteenth Century French Philosophy |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2610 Exploring Nonclassical Logic |
6 | P PHIL1012 N PHIL3214 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2611 Problems of Empiricism This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2211 or PHIL3211 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2612 History of Ethics |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3512 or PHIL2512 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2613 Plato and Aristotle |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points in Philosophy) or (ANHS1600) N PHIL3013 or PHIL2013 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2614 The Presocratics This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points in Philosophy) or (ANHS1600) N PHIL2014, PHIL3014 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2615 Logic and Proof This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P PHIL1012 N PHIL2215 or PHIL3215 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2617 Practical Ethics |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points N PHIL2517 or PHIL3617 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2618 Aesthetics and Art This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P (12 junior credit points in Philosophy) or (12 junior credit points in Art History) N PHIL2518 or PHIL3681 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2619 Philosophy of Mathematics |
6 | P 12 junior credit points in Philosophy or 12 junior credit points in Mathematics N PHIL3219 or PHIL2219 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2620 Probability and Decision Theory |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2220 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2621 Truth, Meaning and Language |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2622 Reality, Time and Possibility: Metaphysics |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3662 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2623 Moral Psychology |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2513 or PHIL3513 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2627 Philosophy and Psychiatry This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy) or (12 Junior credit points from Gender and Cultural Studies) N PHIL2227 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2629 Descartes and Continental Philosophy |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3004 or PHIL2004 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2634 Democratic Theory |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points in Philosophy) or (6 Junior credit points in Philosophy and ANHS1600) N PHIL2514 or PHIL3514 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2635 Political Philosophy |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points in Philosophy) or (12 Junior credit points in Government) N PHIL2535 or PHIL3535 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2640 Environmental Philosophy |
6 | P 12 junior credit points in Philosophy or 12 junior credit points in History and Philosophy of Science or 12 junior credit points in Biology N PHIL2240 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2642 Critical Thinking |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2643 Philosophy of Mind |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points in Philosophy) or (ANHS1600) N PHIL3213 or PHIL2205 or PHIL2213 or PHIL3643 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2645 Philosophy of Law This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2510 or PHIL2604 or PHIL3510 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2646 Philosophy and Literature |
6 | P 12 junior credit points in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2647 Philosophy of Happiness |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points N PHIL3647 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2648 19th C. Philosophy: Kant to Nietzsche This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2641 or PHIL3011 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2650 Logic and Computation |
6 | P PHIL1012 or PHIL2628 or permission of instructor |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2655 Ethics |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in philosophy N PHIL3655 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2658 Philosophy in Film This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy) or (18 Junior credit points, including ENGL1011) |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2660 Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P 12 junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3012, PHIL3612 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2661 Philosophy of Sex This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy) or (12 Junior credit points from Gender and Cultural Studies) |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2663 Justice |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3663 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2667 From Illusion to Reality |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points in Philosophy) or (6 Junior credit points in Philosophy and 6 Junior credit points in Gender and Cultural Studies, Sociology or Psychology) N PHIL2605 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2670 Philosophy of Science |
6 | P (12 junior credit points in Philosophy) or (12 junior credit points in History and Philosophy of Science (HPSC)) |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2671 Locke and Natural Philosophy |
6 | P PHIL1010 or PHIL1011 or PHIL1013 or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2672 Time and Space |
6 | P PHIL1011 and (either PHIL1012 or PHIL1013) or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2675 Existentialism |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in PHIL |
Semester 1 |
PHIL2676 Democracy and Voting |
6 | P 12 junior credit points in PHIL |
Semester 2 |
PHIL2677 How Biology Matters to Philosophy This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P 12 junior credit points, including at least one of either PHIL1011 or PHIL1012 or PHIL1013. |
Semester 1 |
GOVT2112 Modern Political Thought |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points each in any of Philosophy or in Government and International Relations or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Politics or International Relations |
Semester 1 |
3000 level units of study |
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PHIL3613 Philosophy of Human Rights |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
PHIL3615 Contemporary Pragmatism This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P 12 credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3015 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL3617 Practical Ethics Advanced |
6 | P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy, including at least one of (PHIL2623 or PHIL2655 or PHIL2663) or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2617 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL3639 Hellenistic Philosophy |
6 | P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3023, PHIL3039 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL3643 Philosophy of Mind Advanced |
6 | P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3213 or PHIL2205 or PHIL2213 or PHIL2643 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL3647 Philosophy of Happiness Advanced |
6 | P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2647 |
Semester 2 |
PHIL3651 Emotions and Embodied Cognition |
6 | P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2651 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL3655 Ethics (Advanced) |
6 | P PHIL2617 or PHIL2663 or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2655 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL3662 Reality Time and Possibility M'physics Adv |
6 | P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2622 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL3663 Justice (Advanced) |
6 | P PHIL2617 or PHIL2655 or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2663 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL3673 Fundamentality This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P PHIL2622 or PHIL2672 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL3677 Philosophy of Medicine |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
PHIL3681 Aesthetics and Art Advanced This unit of study is not available in 2018 |
6 | P 12 senior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2518 or PHIL2618 |
Semester 2 |
Interdisciplinary Project units of study |
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FASS3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P 18 credit points at 2000 level Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
Honours |
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Honours in Philosophy requires 48 credit points from this table including: | |||
(i) 24 credit points of 4000-level seminar units | |||
(ii) 24 credit points of 4000-level thesis units | |||
Seminar |
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PHIL4103 Research Topics: Early Modern Philosophy |
6 | Semester 1 |
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PHIL4105 Research Topics in Aesthetics and Art |
6 | Semester 1 |
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PHIL4106 Research Topics in Moral Psychology |
6 | Semester 2 |
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PHIL4107 Social and Political Philosophy |
6 | Semester 1 |
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PHIL4108 Research Topics in Ethics |
6 | Semester 2 |
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PHIL4109 Research Topics - Mind and Metaphysics |
6 | Semester 1 |
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PHIL4112 Epistemology and Language |
6 | Semester 1 |
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PHIL4113 Latest Trends: Philosophical Research 1 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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PHIL4114 Latest Trends: Philosophical Research 2 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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Thesis |
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PHIL4201 Philosophy Honours Thesis 1 |
12 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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PHIL4202 Philosophy Honours Thesis 2 |
12 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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Advanced coursework |
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The requirements for advanced coursework in Philosophy are described in the degree resolutions for the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies. | |||
24-36 credit points of advanced study will be included in the table for 2019. |