PHIL444-16S2 (C) Semester Two 2016

Philosophical Logic

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 11 July 2016
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 24 July 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 9 October 2016

Description

This course rapidly surveys a wide range of bizarre arguments, paradoxes and brain-twisters drawn from all corners of philosophy. These include Zeno's paradoxes, the liar paradox, the Sleeping Beauty problem, the doomsday argument, Newcomb's problem, the prisoners' dilemma, the paradox of the ravens, Goodman's New Riddle of Induction, and the paradox of the heap, to name just a few.

To take 400-level courses in Philosophy you don’t need to have majored in Philosophy, and you don’t even need to have done your undergraduate degree at UC. If you complete 120 points in 400-level Philosophy, you will get a BA Honours degree in Philosophy—but you can also take a smaller number of 400-level Philosophy courses and credit these towards your BA or BSc Honours degree in another subject, e.g. Psychology or Political Science or Mathematics. We offer 400-level courses in diverse areas.  You can also write a 30-point Research Essay on a topic of your choice. For a list of 400-level Philosophy courses, click here.

Honours is about developing your own research interests and engaging with cutting-edge research. UC’s Philosophy Department has a very strong research profile. We have world-class experts on Turing, Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind,  ethics and bioethics, logic, and philosophy of computing. UC philosophers are regularly invited to lecture on their research at universities in Australasia, Europe and the United States.

For further information about Philosophy courses, including additional 400-level independent study courses, contact Jack Copeland. For information about Honours degrees, see the BA Honours regulations and BSc Honours regulations.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department for Philosophy.

Restrictions

Lecturer

Jack Copeland

Contact Jack for further information.

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Attendance 10%
Presentations and participation 10%
Essay 5% One page essay proposal
Essay 75% Target length is 2500-3000 words

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $870.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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