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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2610 Exploring Nonclassical Logic |
6 | P PHIL1012 N PHIL3214 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2612 Comparative Ethics |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3512 or PHIL2512 |
Semester 2 |
| 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 |
| PHIL2615 Logic and Proof This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 Semester 2 |
| PHIL2618 Aesthetics and Art This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 2022 |
6 | P 12 junior credit points in Philosophy or 12 junior credit points in Mathematics N PHIL3219 or PHIL2219 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2621 Truth, Meaning and Language |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
| 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 |
| PHIL2634 Democratic Theory This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2510 or PHIL2604 or PHIL3510 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2646 Philosophy and Literature This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy N PHIL2641 or PHIL3011 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2655 Ethics |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3655 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2658 Philosophy in Film This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies |
Semester 2 |
| 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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy N PHIL3663 |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2670 Philosophy of Science |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy or History and Philosophy of Science HPSC |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2672 Time and Space |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL2674 Philosophy and Mythology This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PHIL2675 Existentialism This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2678 Introduction to Formal Philosophy This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Philosophy major |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2679 Freedom |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Philosophy major |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2680 Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence |
6 | P PHIL1012 |
Semester 1 |
| GOVT2112 Modern Political Thought This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P PHIL1012 N PHIL2650 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3611 Philosophy of Economics This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points in Philosophy N PHIL3015 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2651 |
Semester 2 |
| PHIL3655 Ethics (Advanced) |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Philosophy N PHIL2655 |
Semester 1 |
| 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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 2022 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PHIL3682 Romanticism This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12cp at 2000 level in Philosophy |
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. | |||
| FASS3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| PHIL3999 Interdisciplinary Impact This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 | P 72 credit points C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major |
Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |