This minor allows students to concentrate on issues posed for how we should understand ourselves and our situation, by developments in science. Logic provides the student with analytical tools which the student will need in such investigations, while the other subjects involve issues concerning the character of scientific knowledge, or problems posed by work in various particular areas of science.
Learning outcomes
Students who complete this major will have the skills and knowledge to: make sense of issues which they subsequently encounter in these and related areas, while at the same time acquiring skills in the presentation and analysis of arguments, which will be of use to them in other academic fields and in real-life situations.
Relevant Degrees
- Bachelor of Arts (BARTS)
- Bachelor of Arts/Master of International Affairs (BARTVMIA)
- Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies (Sustainability) (BISSU)
- Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies (Sustainability) Advanced (Honours) (AISSU)
- Bachelor of Science (BSC)
- Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Honours) (ASCAD)
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
24 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| PHIL2042 | Philosophy of the Cosmos | 6 |
| PHIL2057 | Philosophy of Science | 6 |
| PHIL2061 | Philosophy of Psychology | 6 |
| PHIL2080 | Logic | 6 |
| PHIL2082 | Sex and Death: the Philosophy of Biology | 6 |
| PHIL 3063: Advanced Philo Topics B | ||
| PHIL3070 | Reason, Critique and the Self: Kant and German Idealism | 6 |
| PHIL3072 | Advanced Analytic Philosophy | 6 |
| PHIL2119 | Foundations of Modern Philosophy | 6 |