University of Sydney Handbooks - 2016 Archive

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Philosophy

Errata
Item Change Section Date
1.

The following unit is not on offer in 2016:

PHIL2661 Philosophy of Sex

Table A 16/12/2015
2.

The following unit is on offer in 2016:

PHIL2619 Philosophy of Mathematics – Semester 1

Table A 16/12/2015
3.

Prerequisites for the following units have changed:

PHIL2635 Contemporary Political Philosophy P (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy) or (12 Junior credit points from Government & International Relations)

GOVT2112 Modern Political Thought P (12 Junior credit points from Government and International Relations) or (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy)

Table A 28/01/2016
Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session

Philosophy

A major in Philosophy requires 36 senior credit points from this table including at least 6 credit points at 3000 level.

Junior units of study

PHIL1016 Mind and Morality is available to HSC students only
PHIL1011
Reality, Ethics and Beauty
6    N PHIL1003 or PHIL1004 or PHIL1006 or PHIL1008
Semester 1
PHIL1012
Introductory Logic
6      Semester 2
PHIL1013
Society, Knowledge and Self
6    N PHIL1010
Semester 2
PHIL1016
Mind and Morality HSC
6   

This unit is available to HSC students only
Summer Main

Senior units of study

PHIL2606
Knowledge, Reason and Action
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
Semester 1
PHIL2610
Exploring Nonclassical Logic
6    P PHIL1012
N PHIL3214
Semester 2
PHIL2611
Problems of Empiricism
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2211 or PHIL3211
Semester 1
PHIL2612
History of Ethics
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL3512 or PHIL2512
Semester 2
PHIL2613
Plato and Aristotle
6    P (12 Junior credit points in Philosophy) or (6 junior credit points of Philosophy and ANHS1600)
N PHIL3013 or PHIL2013
Semester 2
PHIL2615
Intermediate Logic

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy, including PHIL1012
N PHIL2215 or PHIL3215
Semester 2
PHIL2616
Philosophy of Human Rights
6    P 12 Junior credit points in (Philosophy, or Government and International Relations)
Semester 2
PHIL2617
Practical Ethics
6    P 12 Junior credit points
N PHIL2517 or PHIL3617
Semester 1
Summer Main
PHIL2618
Aesthetics and Art
6    P (12 junior credit points in Philosophy) or (12 junior credit points in Art History)
N PHIL2518 or PHIL3681
Semester 2
PHIL2620
Probability and Decision Theory
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2220
Semester 1
PHIL2621
Truth, Meaning and Language

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
Semester 2
PHIL2622
Reality, Time and Possibility: Metaphysics
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL3662
Semester 1
PHIL2623
Moral Psychology
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2513 or PHIL3513
Semester 1
PHIL2625
Hannah Arendt

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2515, PHIL3515
Semester 2
PHIL2626
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2207 or PHIL3207 or PHIL3226 or PHIL2226
Semester 1
PHIL2627
Philosophy and Psychiatry
6    P (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy) or (12 Junior credit points from Gender and Cultural Studies)
N PHIL2227
Semester 2
PHIL2629
Descartes and Continental Philosophy

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL3004 or PHIL2004
Semester 1
PHIL2632
Modernity in Crisis

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2532, PHIL3532
Semester 1
PHIL2633
Theorising Modernity
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL1007 or PHIL2533
Semester 1
PHIL2634
Democratic Theory
6    P (12 Junior credit points in Philosophy) or (6 Junior credit points of Philosophy and ANHS1600)
N PHIL2514 or PHIL3514
Semester 2
PHIL2635
Contemporary Political Philosophy
6    P (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy) or (12 Junior credit points from Gender and Cultural Studies)
N PHIL2535 or PHIL3535
Semester 1
PHIL2640
Environmental Philosophy
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2240
Semester 1
PHIL2642
Critical Thinking
6    P 12 Junior credit points
Semester 2
PHIL2643
Philosophy of Mind
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL3213 or PHIL2205 or PHIL2213 or PHIL3643
Semester 2
PHIL2644
Critical Theory: From Marx to Foucault

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
Semester 2
PHIL2645
Philosophy of Law
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2510 or PHIL2604 or PHIL3510
Semester 1
PHIL2646
Philosophy and Literature

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 junior credit points in Philosophy
Semester 2
PHIL2647
Philosophy of Happiness
6    P 12 Junior credit points
N PHIL3647
Semester 1
Summer Main
PHIL2648
19th C. Philosophy: Kant to Nietzsche
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2641 or PHIL3011
Semester 1
PHIL2649
The Classical Mind

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P (12 Junior credit points in Philosophy) or (6 Junior credit points of Philosophy and ANHS1600)
N PHIL2613 or PHIL3639
Semester 2
PHIL2650
Logic and Computation

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P PHIL1012 or PHIL2628 or permission of instructor
Semester 1
PHIL2651
Bodies and Passions

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL3651
Semester 2
PHIL2655
Philosophical Ethics
6    P 12 Junior credit points of philosophy
N PHIL3655
Semester 2
PHIL2658
Philosophy in Film
6    P (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy) or (18 Junior credit points, including ENGL1011)
Semester 2
PHIL2661
Philosophy of Sex
6    P (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy) or (12 Junior credit points from Gender and Cultural Studies)
Semester 2
PHIL2663
Justice
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL3663
Semester 2
PHIL2664
Philosophy of Nature and the Environment
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
Semester 2
PHIL2665
Philosophy of Economics

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy) or (12 Junior credit points of Economics)
Semester 2
PHIL2667
From Illusion to Reality
6    P (12 Junior credit points of Philosophy) or (6 Junior credit points of Philosophy and 6 Junior credit points from Gender and Cultural Studies, Sociology or Psychology)
N PHIL2605
Semester 1
PHIL2670
Philosophy of Science
6    P (12 junior credit points in Philosophy) or (12 junior credit points in History and Philosophy of Science (HPSC))
Semester 2
PHIL3615
Contemporary Pragmatism

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL3015
Semester 1
PHIL3617
Practical Ethics Advanced
6    P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy, including at least one of (PHIL2623 or PHIL2655 or PHIL2663)
N PHIL2617
Semester 1
PHIL3638
Hegel
6    P 16 Senior credit points in Philosophy
N : PHIL3038 or PHIL3509
Semester 1
PHIL3639
Hellenistic Philosophy

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy
N : PHIL3023, PHIL3039
Semester 2
PHIL3643
Philosophy of Mind Advanced
6    P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL3213 or PHIL2205 or PHIL2213 or PHIL2643
Semester 2
PHIL3647
Philosophy of Happiness Advanced
6    P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2647
Semester 1
PHIL3651
Emotions and Embodied Cognition

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 Senior credit points of Philosophy
N PHIL2651
Semester 2
PHIL3655
Philosophical Ethics (adv)
6    P PHIL2617 or PHIL2663
N PHIL2655
Semester 2
PHIL3662
Reality Time and Possibility M'physics Adv
6    P 12 Senior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2622
Semester 1
PHIL3663
Justice (Advanced)
6    P PHIL2617 or PHIL2655
N PHIL2663
Semester 2
PHIL3681
Aesthetics and Art Advanced
6    P 12 senior credit points in Philosophy
N PHIL2518 or PHIL2618
Semester 2
BDST3611
Buddhist Philosophical Traditions

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6    P 12 Senior credit points from one area of study- (Buddhist Studies, or Asian Studies, or (Studies in Religion or World Religions), or Philosophy)
N ASNS2621
Semester 2
Summer Early
GOVT2112
Modern Political Thought
6    P 12 Junior credit points from Government and International Relations
Semester 1

Honours

PHIL4011
Philosophy Honours A
12      Semester 1
Semester 2
PHIL4012
Philosophy Honours B
12    C PHIL4011
Semester 1
Semester 2
PHIL4013
Philosophy Honours C
12    C PHIL4012
Semester 1
Semester 2
PHIL4014
Philosophy Honours D
12    C PHIL4013
Semester 1
Semester 2