哲学政治与经济学文学学士荣誉学士

课程模块Modules

• 年一Year one
• 年二Year two
• Year three

25 modules

• contemporary views relating to the nature of aesthetics
• the relationship between artworks and other objects of aesthetic concern
• philosophical issues surrounding aesthetics
• critical discussion and evaluation of different philosophical views of aesthetics
• objectivity versus the subjectivity of aesthetic evaluations
• epistemology of aesthetic judgement
• 美学自然aesthetics of nature
• aesthetics of human beaut
• aesthetics of everyday life
• How might African accounts of humanity radicalise concepts of gender?
• Are Africana cosmological narratives able to counter heteronormativity?
• Can the philosophy of ubuntu promote environmental justice?
• Can black humanity be affirmed in ways that refuse the social death of anti-black racism?
• applying ethical reasoning to major practical themes
• debating contemporary and historical problem cases with appreciation for the perspectives of others
• 评估关键创意小学与中学文学evaluating key ideas in primary and secondary literature
• Objects: concrete vs. abstract; existence and nothingness
• Sets and mereology
• Properties, Property bearers, Relations
• States of affairs and non-mereological composition
• Modality (including counterfactuals) and possible worlds
• Time, persistence, change, and the non-present
• What makes certain actions right or wrong?
• What is the relation between right action and good character?
• What is it to hold someone morally responsible in the first place?
• What is art?
• Is there a relationship between art and ethics?
• What is the relationship between art and emotion?
• have a good awareness of many of the critical debates in the philosophy of art
• recognise and judge for yourself the strengths and weaknesses of arguments on the issues

45 modules

• saving, focusing on how agents make intertemporal decisions about their savings and wealth accumulation
• bond markets and fixed income securities
• the term structure of interest rates
• the role of behavioural finance in explaining stock market puzzles
• Pantheism
• Substance monism
• Monadology
• Panpsychism
• Idealism
• Determinism
• Materialism
• what constitutes the proper demands of an egalitarian society
• What is it to be an authentic person and why think that authenticity is a virtue?
• How is acting freely, responsibly, or autonomously related to acting authentically, if at all?
• Does being authentic require a capacity for radical Libertarian freedom?
• Is the authentic agent someone who need adhere to moral norms, as those are commonly understood?
• Is acting authentically an antidote to nihilism?
• Is the authentic agent someone who need reject the existence of God?
• Kierkegaard
• Schopenhauer
• Nietzsche
• Heidegger
• Sartre
• Beauvoir
• Fanon
• accounts of what it is to lie
• accounts of the social effects of language (slurs, dog whistles and propaganda)
• the harms of speech and how to balance those with the right to speech
• the different ways in which people can be silenced
• the ethics of pornography
• the ethics of various sexual preferences (e.g. BDSM, racial preferences, gendered preferences)
• How should human beings interact with the non-human natural world?
• Is nature intrinsically valuable, or does it possess value only by being valuable to us?
• the moral status of animals
• the ethics of zoos
• responsibility for climate change
• whether there is any connection between the twin oppressions of women and nature
• the environmental impact of having children
• the ethics of restoring nature after it has been damaged by human development
• Should the existence of widespread disagreement in politics make us less confident in our own views?
• Are voters morally or epistemically obligated to vote responsibly?
• Should we have beliefs about complex policy questions about which we are not experts?
• Is democracy the best form of government for getting at the truth?
• philosophy of mind and psychology (with a mental health angle)
• philosophy of mental health (with a philosophy of mind and psychology angle)
• Presocratic Philosophy
• Heraclitus
• Parmenides
• The Sophistic movement
• Plato and Platonism
• Socrates and the Socratic Schools
• Aristotle
• Epicurus and Epicureanism
• Stoicism
• Academic and Pyrrhonian Scepticism
• Plotinus and Neoplatonism
• Pythagoreanism
• experiences of being chronically ill
• 精神病学与心理健康psychiatry and mental health
• the oppression of ill persons · illness narratives
• the moral and spiritual significance of illness
• the experience of dying
• empathy, grief, and mourning
• death and the meaning of life
• the significance of human mortality to wider philosophical issues and concerns
• What sorts of acts should be criminalised, and why?
• Is criminal punishment justified? If so, why?
• 哲学休闲与游戏philosophy of leisure and play
• 哲学教育philosophy of education
• 哲学家庭philosophy of family
• 哲学工作philosophy of work
• 哲学sexphilosophy of sex
• moral psychology: what is it to be motivated to do something? What is a moral agent?
• moral anti-realism: if there are no objective moral facts, how should we understand our moral practice?
• metaethics and God: divine command and desire theories
• moral semantics: what is the distinctive meaning of ethical terms? Can ethical terms be defined?