PHIL585 Reason and Choice: Individual, Social, Political
| Credit Points | 6 | |||||||||
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| Online level | Level B - Internet access required | |||||||||
| Intensive School(s) |
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| 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 | PHIL285 or PHIL385 or PHIL485 or PHPO285 or PHPO385 | |||||||||
| Notes | None | |||||||||
| Combined Units |
PHIL385 - Reason and Choice: Individual, Social, Political |
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| Coordinator(s) | Arcady Blinov (ablinov@une.edu.au) | |||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||
| Recommended Material Optional |
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Note: Recommended material is held in the University Library - purchase is optional
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| Disclaimer | Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period. |