Course Syllabi (2023-24 Intake)
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History of Philosophy Unit
- PHI2112 History of Chinese Philosophy: From Pre-Qin to Han
- PHI2113 History of Western Philosophy: Ancient Greek Philosophy
- PHI2116 History of Chinese Philosophy: From Wei-Jin to Ming
- PHI2117 History of Western Philosophy: From Descartes to Kant
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Core Philosophy Courses
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Ethics and Political Philosophy Unit
- PHI3102 Chinese Political Philosophy
- PHI3103 Advanced Western Ethics
- PHI3104 Western Political Philosophy
- PHI3232 Ethics: The Chinese Tradition
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Capstone Unit
Aesthetics
- PHI3264 Philosophy and Literature
- PHI3271 History of Aesthetics
- PHI3281 Philosophy of Photography
- PHI4273 Philosophy of Architecture
- PHI4363 Analytic Philosophy of Art
- PHI4373 Cinema and Philosophy
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Chinese Philosophy
- CHI4308 Confucianism and Chinese Literature
- CHI4345 Buddhism and Chinese Literature
- CHI4346 Daoism and Chinese Literature
- PHI3002 The Philosophy of Zhuangzi
- PHI3285 The Philosophy of Mozi
- PHI4266 Pre-Qin Taoism
- PHI4334 Contemporary Neo-Confucianism
- PHI4361 Confucianism and the Modern World
- PHI4364 Man and Heaven in Chinese Philosophy
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Continental Philosophy
- PHI3270 Continental Aesthetic Theories
- PHI4261 Contemporary Continental Philosophy
- PHI4275 Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
- PHI4369 Post-Modern Philosophy
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Ethics and Practical Philosophy
- PHI3105 Philosophy of Happiness
- PHI3201 Applied Ethics
- PHI3222 Life and Death
- PHI3223 Bioethics
- PHI3236 Contingencies and Necessities in Life
- PHI3263 Philosophical Perspectives on Human Rights
- PHI3278 Metaethics
- PHI3280 Philosophy of Religion
- PHI3372 Intergenerational Ethics and The Future of Humanity
- PHI4324 Utopia
- PHI4367 Philosophy of Law
- PHI4372 Theories of Justice
- PHI4374 Value Theory
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Philosophy of Natural and Human Sciences
- PHI2118 A Philosophical Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- PHI3001 Causation, Explanation and Causal Inference
- PHI3279 Philosophy of Technology
- PHI3282 Philosophy of History
- PHI3283 Philosophy of Social Science
- PHI3368 Philosophy of Science
- PHI3370 Probability and Scientific Method
- PHI3371 Personal Identity
- PHI4101 Modal Logic
- PHI4365 Philosophy of Action
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Special Topics
- PHI4399A Existence and Being
- PHI4399C Freedom, Commitment, and the Self
- PHI4399D Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
- PHI4399F Philosophical Writing
- PHI4399G Aesthetic Properties
- PHI4399H Philosophical Methodology
- PHI4399J Philosophy of Psychology
- PHI4399K Scientific Realism
- PHI4399M Contemporary Metaethics
- PHI4399P The Nature of Truth
- PHI4399R The Theory and Practice of Autonomy
- PHI4399S Buddhism in the Contemporary World
- PHI4399T Philosophy of Probability