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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 Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
   

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