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PHIL385 Reason and Choice: Individual, Social, Political

Credit Points 6
Offering Not offered in 2008
Online level Level B - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
N/A N/A Optional
Supervised Exam November
Pre-requisites 12 cp in Philosophy
Co-requisites None
Restrictions PHIL 285, 485; PHPO 285/385
Notes None
Combined Units PHIL485 - Reason and Choice: Individual, Social, Political
Coordinator(s) N/A
Unit Description

The idea of reason organises discussion of issues in ethical, political and social philosophy. Topics include: the critique of instrumental reason; particularist critique of practical reason; Prisoners' Dilemma and Arrow's Theorem; the Kantian accounts of reason and morality; post-modernist critique of public reason; weakness of will and radical interpretation.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory
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Recommended Material
Optional
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