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PHIL505 Space and Time

Updated: 17 December 2008
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus
Online level Level B - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
30 April 2009 03 May 2009 Non-Mandatory
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites None
Restrictions PHIL205 or PHIL305 or PHIL405
Notes None
Combined Units PHIL305 - Space and Time
Coordinator(s) Peter Forrest (pforrest@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit examines issues in the philosophy of Space and Time. Topics include the question of whether Time travel is possible; whether Space has a shape; whether Time had a beginning and will have an end; the possibility of Space having an edge; Zeno's paradoxes; the fine structure of Space and Time; whether Time passes; McTaggart's argument; Presentism, the Block theory and the Growing Block; and the direction of Time.

Materials No text required
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
   

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