PHIL493-25S2 (D) Semester Two 2025 (Distance)

Philosophical Landmarks

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This course is about major new discoveries and developments that have occurred in philosophy - developments that forever changed how philosophers approach major questions in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, ethics (including, e.g., climate change and intergenerational justice), and the philosophy of language. Topics covered will vary from year to year depending on student interest; these may include groundbreaking discoveries by philosophers such as Quine, Kripke, Putnam, Lewis, Nagel and Davidson, as well as the work of earlier philosophers.

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Restrictions

Contact Person

Diane Proudfoot

Assessment

Please check the course LEARN page for further details and updates.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,169.00

* 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.

For further information see Humanities .

All PHIL493 Occurrences

  • PHIL493-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025
  • PHIL493-25S2 (D) Semester Two 2025 (Distance)
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