Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 143)
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Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Prerequisite: One first-year single-semester Philosophy subject. Students who lack this prerequisite, but believe themselves adequately prepared to attempt any second/third year subjects, should consult the Head of Department.
Contact: Up to three hours a week.
Objectives:
At the completion of this subject students should have:
- a knowledge of the content of major paradoxical arguments in logic, metaphysics, and decision theory;
- knowledge of the principal responses to the paradoxes;
- understanding of how the paradoxes relate to developing theories in the fields in which they arise.
Content:
A study of arguments leading to apparently irresoluble contradictions in metaphysics, logic, and the theories of belief and action; and of attempts to resolve them.
Assessment:
One 2-hour end-of-semester examination (50 per cent) and an assignment of no more than 3,000 words (50 per cent).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 143)
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