Overview | Summary of Courses

Offered By:	ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of Interest:	Philosophy

This minor will give students an understanding of, and will enable them to develop skills in, modern ‘analytic’ philosophy, in which the ANU has a particular strength.  Students can, within it, pursue a wide range of courses dealing with interesting material, taught in an analytical style, and while doing so pick up a range of skills which should be useful to them in the handling of theoretical material in any field.

Learning outcomes

Students who complete this major will have the skills and knowledge to approach a range of analytical tasks, and they will have practised giving cogent arguments and making verbal or written presentations along with handling detailed criticism of their ideas.  This minor will develop skills that will be useful for grappling with abstract ideas in any field, but also for interrelating abstract ideas and real-world phenomena.

Requirements

This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:

24 units from the completion of courses from the following list:

PHIL2016 - Philosophy of Language (6 units)

PHIL2020 - Theories of Social Justice (6 units)

PHIL2042 - Philosophy of the Cosmos (6 units)

PHIL2057 - Philosophy of Science (6 units)

PHIL2060 - Contemporary Metaphysics (6 units)

PHIL2061 - Philosophy of Psychology (6 units)

PHIL2064 - Theories of Ethics (6 units)

PHIL2074 - Modern Theories of Knowledge (6 units)

PHIL2080 – Logic (6 units)

PHIL2082 - Sex and Death: the Philosophy of Biology (6 units)

PHIL2094 - Themes from Wittgenstein (6 units)

PHIL2100 - Origins of Analytical Philosophy (6 units)

PHIL3063 - Advanced Philosophical Topics B (6 units)

PHIL3070 - Reason, Critique and the Self: Kant and German Idealism (6 units)

PHIL3072 - Advanced Analytic Philosophy (6 units)

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