Philosophy
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| 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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| 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 2021 |
6 | P PHIL1012 N PHIL3214 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
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 1 |
| PHIL2617 Practical Ethics |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level N PHIL2517 or PHIL3617 |
Intensive February |
| 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 1 |
| PHIL2619 Philosophy of Mathematics This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
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 2021 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
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 2021 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
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 1 |
| PHIL2642 Critical Thinking |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
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 N PHIL3647 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2648 19th C. Philosophy: Kant to Nietzsche |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2641 or PHIL3011 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2655 Ethics This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
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 2021 |
6 | P 12 junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3012 or PHIL3612 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2661 Philosophy of Sex This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2605 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2672 Time and Space This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2674 Philosophy and Mythology This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PHIL2675 Existentialism |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2677 How Biology Matters to Philosophy This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2678 Introduction to Formal Philosophy |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Philosophy major |
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 1 |
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 |
| PHIL3610 Logic and Computation |
6 | P PHIL1012 N PHIL2650 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3611 Philosophy of Economics This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy or Economics or Economic Policy |
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 1 |
| PHIL3615 Contemporary Pragmatism |
6 | P 12 credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3015 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL3617 Practical Ethics Advanced This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2617 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL3639 Hellenistic Philosophy |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3023 or PHIL3039 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL3640 Nature and Crisis |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level and 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Philosophy major |
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 |
| PHIL3651 Emotions and Embodied Cognition |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2651 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3655 Ethics (Advanced) This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
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 |
| 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 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2518 or PHIL2618 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3682 Romanticism This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12cp at 2000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
| GOVT3664 Key Concepts in Political Thought This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in International Relations or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Politics or 12 senior credit points from Government and International Relations N GOVT2616 |
Semester 2 |
Interdisciplinary Project units of study |
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| If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major. | |||
| If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major. | |||
| If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major. | |||
| PHIL3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| PHIL3998 Industry and Community Project |
6 | C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major. |
Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |