Module PHL3080 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL3080: Philosophical Frontiers
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
- You will critically engage with work on the frontiers of philosophy through reading a recently published or forthcoming monograph.
- You will learn research skills in both self-motivated and group contexts.
- You will develop core philosophical skills such as critical reflection, argumentation and clarity of expression.
- Examining a cutting-edge monograph will help you cover new research methods and trends; understand the importance of sustaining a philosophical project beyond the journal-article format; and about situating philosophical work within disciplinary context.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate familiarity with a cutting-edge philosophical monograph. 2. Critically understand the historical and philosophical context of a piece of cutting-edge philosophy. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Critically analyse and respond to philosophical arguments. 4. Develop your own philosophical ideas. |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. Provide clear and concise written and oral communication skills. 6. Demonstrate comprehension of complex ideas and writing. 7. Show creativity, enabling lateral thinking, new ideas and problem-solving skills. |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Each year the module will differ depending on the selected monograph, but here is an indication of the kinds of options that could be explored:
Nguyen, Thi (forthcoming). Games: Agency as Art, Oxford University Press.
Potochnik, Angela (2017) Idealization and the Aims of Science, Chicago University Press
Stoljar, Daniel (2018) Philosophical Progress: in defence of a reasonable optimism. Oxford University Press.
Alexandrova, Anna (2017). A Philosophy for the Science of Wellbeing. Oxford University Press.
O’Connor, Cailin (forthcoming). The Origins of Unfairness. Oxford University Press.