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PHIL385 Reason and Choice: Individual, Social, Political
Updated: 24 September 2008
| Credit Points |
6 |
| Offering |
| Responsible Campus |
Teaching Period |
Mode of Study |
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Armidale
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Semester 2
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Off Campus
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|
Armidale
|
Semester 2
|
On Campus
|
|
| Online level |
Level B - Internet access required
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| Intensive School(s) |
| Start |
Finish |
Attendance |
Notes |
25 September 2009
|
27 September 2009
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Non-Mandatory
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|
|
| Supervised Exam |
November
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| Pre-requisites |
6 cp in PHIL or candidature in a postgraduate award
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| Co-requisites |
None
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| Restrictions |
PHIL285 or PHIL485 or PHIL585 or PHPO285 or PHPO385
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| Notes |
None |
| Combined Units |
PHIL585 - Reason and Choice: Individual, Social, Political
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| Coordinator(s) |
Arcady Blinov
(ablinov@une.edu.au)
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| 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.
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Prescribed Material
Mandatory |
Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
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Recommended Material
Optional |
Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
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| Disclaimer |
Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester. |
