This Unit will present some of the main areas of inquiry in Philosophy; through the various topics delivered in this unit, participants will be able to understand the issues at hand and engage in stimulating debate.
The topics covered in this Unit include:
- Art and its Value
- The Birth of Modernity: The Thinking Subject, Science and Politics
- Things in the world
- Ways to God
- The End of Humanity?
- Philosophy as Consolation
- Nietzsche, Foucualt and Agamben
- The Philosophy of Economic Sustainability
- Philosophy of Animals.
Main Reading List
- Dreyfus, H. (2009) On the Internet (2nd edition) London: Routledge.
- Engel, M, S.(Ed) (2000) With Good Reason: an Introduction to Informal Fallacies (6th Edition) Bedford/St. Martin鈥檚.
- Leeks, J. (2009) Sexuality. London: Routledge.
- Shapin, S. (1998) The Scientific Revolution. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
- Sheppard, A.(1987) Aesthetics, In Introduction to the Philosophy of Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press.