Undergraduate Course: Philosophy of Time Travel (PHIL10125)
Course Outline
School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
Home subject area | Philosophy |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | There are now (literally) scores of philosophical articles relating time travel to a host of interesting metaphysical and epistemic problems centred around (e.g.) laws of nature, personal identity and free will. Students will be encouraged to engage critically with such issues through the works of such important figures as David Lewis, Kurt Gödel, D. H. Mellor and Robin Le Poidevin, amongst others. No previous knowledge of physics or the philosophy of time will be required and the course will have only minimal overlap with the Honours option $ùPhilosophy of Time&© (PHIL10113). |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | Passes in second level courses in Philosophy |
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: 37 |
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Central | Seminar | Philosophy of Time Travel | 1-11 | | | | 09:00 - 10:50 | |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
To develop further students&© philosophical skills, and to extend and deepen their philosophical knowledge, acquired in previous philosophy courses. Students who successfully complete this course will have received a thorough grounding in all philosophical aspects of the current time travel debate and should be equipped to discuss critically a range of relevant, contemporary philosophical issues in metaphysics. |
Assessment Information
This course will be assessed by a mixture of written and presented instruments of assessment, which should encourage not merely written responses but active participation in the seminar from all students.
These instruments, and their associated weighted contribution to overall course assessment, will be as follows:
i) 1 short presentation (10%).
ii) 1 short (approx. 1500 word) essay (35%).
iii) 1long (approx. 3000 word) essay (55%).
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Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Alasdair Richmond
Tel: (0131 6)50 3656
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Course secretary | Miss Susan Richards
Tel: (0131 6)51 3733
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