Philosophy
Errata
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Prerequisites have changed for the following units. They are now: PHIL2642 Critical Thinking P 12 credit points at 1000 level |
15/1/2019 |
| 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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| PHIL2606 Knowledge, Reason and Action |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2607 Eighteenth Century French Philosophy |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2610 Exploring Nonclassical Logic This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P PHIL1012 N PHIL3214 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2611 Problems of Empiricism This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2211 or PHIL3211 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2612 History of Ethics |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3512 or PHIL2512 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2613 Plato and Aristotle |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History N PHIL3013 or PHIL2013 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2614 The Presocratics |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2615 Logic and Proof |
6 | P PHIL1012 N PHIL2215 or PHIL3215 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2617 Practical Ethics |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2517 or PHIL3617 |
Semester 1 Summer Main |
| PHIL2618 Aesthetics and Art |
6 | P (12 credit points at 1000-level in Philosophy) or (12 credit points at 1000-level in Art History) N PHIL2518 or PHIL3681 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2619 Philosophy of Mathematics This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
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 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2220 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2621 Truth, Meaning and Language This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2622 Reality, Time and Possibility: Metaphysics |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3662 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2623 Moral Psychology |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2513 or PHIL3513 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2629 The Mind-Body Problem: From Descartes to Kant |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3004 or PHIL2004 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2634 Democratic Theory This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points in Philosophy) or (6 Junior credit points in Philosophy and ANHS1600) N PHIL2514 or PHIL3514 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2635 Political Philosophy |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Government and International Relations N PHIL2535 or PHIL3535 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2640 Environmental Philosophy |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2240 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2642 Critical Thinking |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2643 Philosophy of Mind |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3213 or PHIL2205 or PHIL2213 or PHIL3643 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2645 Philosophy of Law |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2510 or PHIL2604 or PHIL3510 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2646 Philosophy and Literature |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2647 Philosophy of Happiness |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3647 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2655 Ethics |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in philosophy N PHIL3655 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2658 Philosophy in Film |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2660 Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P 12 junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3012, PHIL3612 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2661 Philosophy of Sex |
6 | P (12 credit points at 1000-level in Philosophy) or (12 credit points at 1000-level in Gender and Cultural Studies) |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2663 Justice |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3663 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2667 Scepticism: From Illusion to Reality |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2605 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2670 Philosophy of Science This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
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 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2672 Time and Space |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2675 Existentialism |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2676 Democracy and Voting This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P 12 junior credit points in PHIL |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2677 How Biology Matters to Philosophy |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
| GOVT2112 Modern Political Thought |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Politics or International Relations or 12 credit points in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Government and International Relations |
Semester 2 |
3000 level units of study |
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| PHIL3605 Early Modern Theories of Perception |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level from the Philosophy major N PHIL2605 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3608 Philosophy of Information |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Philosophy major |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL3609 Philosophy of Logic |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Philosophy major |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL3613 Philosophy of Human Rights |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Politics or 12 credit points at 2000 level in International Relations |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3615 Contemporary Pragmatism This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P 12 credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3015 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3617 Practical Ethics Advanced |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2617 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL3639 Hellenistic Philosophy This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3023, PHIL3039 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3643 Philosophy of Mind Advanced |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3213 or PHIL2205 or PHIL2213 or PHIL2643 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3647 Philosophy of Happiness Advanced This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2647 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3651 Emotions and Embodied Cognition This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2651 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL3655 Ethics (Advanced) |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2655 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3662 Reality Time and Possibility M'physics Adv |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2622 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL3663 Justice (Advanced) |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2663 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL3673 Fundamentality This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P PHIL2622 or PHIL2672 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL3677 Philosophy of Medicine This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3681 Aesthetics and Art Advanced |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2518 or PHIL2618 |
Semester 2 |
Interdisciplinary Project units of study |
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| PHIL3998 Industry and Community Project |
6 | P Interdisciplinary Impact in any major |
Intensive December Intensive February Intensive January Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| PHIL3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major |
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 | |||
Honours seminar units of study |
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| PHIL4102 Research Topics: 20th Century Philosophy |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| PHIL4103 Research Topics: Early Modern Philosophy |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| PHIL4104 Research Topics in German Philosophy |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| PHIL4105 Research Topics in Aesthetics and Art This unit of study is not available in 2019 |
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 2 |
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| PHIL4108 Research Topics in Ethics |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| PHIL4109 Research Topics - Mind and Metaphysics |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PHIL4110 Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| PHIL4111 Formal Philosophy |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PHIL4112 Epistemology and Language |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| PHIL4113 Latest Trends: Philosophical Research 1 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| PHIL4114 Latest Trends: Philosophical Research 2 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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Honours thesis units of study |
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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 2020. | |||