PHIL485 Reason and Choice: Individual, Social, Political
| Credit Points | 6 | ||||||||
| Offering | Not offered in 2008 | ||||||||
| Online level | Level B - Internet access required | ||||||||
| Intensive School(s) |
|
||||||||
| Supervised Exam | November | ||||||||
| Pre-requisites | candidature in a postgraduate award | ||||||||
| Co-requisites | None | ||||||||
| Restrictions | PHIL 285, 385; PHPO 285/385 | ||||||||
| Notes | None | ||||||||
| Combined Units |
PHIL385 - 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 |
Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period. | ||||||||
| Recommended Material Optional |
Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period. | ||||||||
| Disclaimer | Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester. |