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161-440 Philosophical Psychology | |
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Note | Formerly available as 161-043. Students who have completed 161-043 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 4th year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Brian Scarlett |
Prerequisites | Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth year honours in philosophy. |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Subject Description | A traditional definition has it that a person is an individual substance of a rational kind. This subject investigates questions arising from these requirements, for example: Could social groups be primary and individual humans secondary? Could a person be a mere bundle of mental items or of atoms, and not an organic unity? Could the vocabulary of thought and sense be dispensed with to suit the requirements of an impersonal scientific world view? How does madness fit into the rationality requirement? Do answers to these questions have anything to do with how we ought to live? |
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