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PHIL585 Reason and Choice: Individual, Social, Political
Updated: 28 April 2009| Credit Points | 6 | ||||||||
| Offering | Not offered in 2010 | ||||||||
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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. |
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| Materials | 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. |