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On successful completion of the module, students should be able to:
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Identify what philosophy is, by looking at a number of traditional approaches to this question, and consider how philosophy is done.
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Distinguish four particular branches of philosophy: metaphysics epistemology, anthropology, philosophy of science, and relate one branch to another.
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Debate some of the main ideas of the principle teachings of certain major philosophers on the topics of reality, knowledge, self, science, and think such issues out for one’s own self.
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Analyse the historical philosophical discussions about reality, epistemology, self, science, and consider their contextual importance for modern debates in philosophy of mind (AI), consciousness, and free will.
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Debate some of the modern theories in the philosophy of mind with regard to the mind-body problem, computational theory of mind, embodied cognition, and consider the limits of such models.
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Identify major faults in everyday reasoning, with reference to some common logical informal fallacies, and translate everyday arguments into standard, classical syllogistic form (where possible), and test the validity of such arguments, using the rules of the syllogism.
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Translate everyday arguments into standard modern logical notation of the propositional calculus, and test the validity of such arguments, using the truth-table method.
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Develop an appreciation of predicate and modal logic, through discussion of quantifiers, probability, possibility and necessity.
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