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Build-Your-Own: Metaphysics (PHIL30055)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
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Contact information
Semester 2
Email: dgoswick@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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Build-Your-Own: Metaphysics will guide students through developing their own metaphysical view via an examination of the various ingredients of metaphysical views and of how different cultures put these ingredients together to create a metaphysical view.
The first few weeks will be spent examining the various ingredients that go into building a metaphysical system. Readings will vary slightly depending on student interest, but will include topics such as physical objects, events, causation, parts and wholes, properties, persistence over time, possibility, etc. The middle weeks will be spent examining how different cultures put these ingredients together to come up with differing metaphysical systems. Readings will vary slightly depending on student interest, but will include Indigenous philosophy (e.g., Australian, African, native American), traditional Western philosophy (e.g., Kant, Lewis), and religious worldviews (e.g., Shinto, Islamic, Buddhist, Christian).
The final weeks will be spent guiding students to make explicit the metaphysical systems that govern their own lives via reflection on the ingredients of metaphysics and the ways various cultures put these ingredients together. There will be space for students to incorporate readings from their own interests and to design a final project which reflects the role philosophy plays in both their daily lives and their reflective thinking.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Describe and outline the key central ingredients which play a role in all metaphysical systems, i.e., from the ancient world to the modern world and across all cultures
- Identify and articulate the various ways these ingredients can be combined to form differing metaphysical systems
- Assess, reflect and integrate awareness of how the metaphysical system one lives under/takes for granted influences one's perception of one's self, others, and the world at large.
Generic skills
Students who successfully complete this subject should be able to:
- Develop powers of critical and analytical thinking
- Develop the ability to apply these powers of reasoning to their own lives, their own culture, and their place within their own culture and the world at large
- Strengthen their ability to write clearly and concisely.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Completion of 12.5 points in Philosophy
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Short-answer Exam - Ingredients
| Week 4 | 13% |
Short-answer Exam - Systems
| Week 8 | 25% |
Outline of Final Paper
| Week 12 | 12% |
Final Paper
| During the examination period | 50% |
Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. There is an expectation that students attend lectures. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Dana Goswick Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 35 hours: A 2-hour lecture every week for 12 weeks and a 1-hour tutorial every week for 11 weeks (week 2- week 12) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
Email: dgoswick@unimelb.edu.au
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
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Subject readings will be available online.
- Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
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- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
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- Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024