Units that can be counted towards Philosophy
- First-year level
- Second/Third-year level
To check the availability of units listed below, and to their view current handbook entries, please enter the relevant unit code and press submit.
With any queries, please contact the Philosophy and Bioethics Undergraduate Coordinator via PhilBio.UGCoordinator@arts.monash.edu.au.
First-year level
Clayton
- PHL1010 Introduction to Philosophy A
- PHL1020 Introduction to Philosophy B
- PHL1030 Thinking: Analysing Arguments - also available as PHL2030
- PHL1140 Introducing Logic - also available as PHL2140
- CHB1010 Ethics, Biotechnology and Genetics: Current issues in Bioethics
- CHB1020 Ethics, Genetics and the Law: Justice and the new Biotechnologies.
First year Clayton units available to students with good scores in VCE or IB Philosophy with permission
- PHL1130
- PHL1150
- PHL1650.
Caulfield
- PHL1010 Introduction to Philosophy A
- PHL1020 Introduction to Philosophy B.
First year Caulfield units available to students with good scores in VCE or IB Philosophy with permission
- PHL1150
- PHL1650.
Gippsland
- PHL1010 Introduction to Philosophy A
- PHL1080 Philosophy: Time, Self and Freedom.
Off-campus learning
- PHL1010 Introduction to Philosophy A
- PHL1080 Philosophy: Time, Self and Freedom.
For further details about these units, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/philosophy/ugrad/firstyear.
Second/Third-year level
The normal prerequisite for each second-year unit is a first-year sequence in philosophy. The normal prerequisite for a third-year-level unit is a first-year level sequence in philosophy and any two second-year level units. In special circumstances, these requirements may be waived. However, some later-year units have only one philosophy unit as a prerequisite, and some others have no philosophy prerequisite at all.
Clayton
- PHL2001 Ethics at Work: Ethical Issues in Professional Life (previously IDS2001)
- PHL2030 Thinking: Analysing Arguments - also available as PHL1030
- PHL2110 Res Cogitans: Descartes on Mind and Knowledge
- PHL2120 Language, Truth and Power
- PHL2130 Plato and Platonism - also available with permission as PHL1130
- PHL2140 Introducing Logic - also available as PHL1140
- PHL2150 Ethics - also available with permission as PHL1150
- PHL2170 Symbolic Logic
- PHL2180 Morality, Objectivity and Agency: Issues in Meta-Ethics
- PHL2210 Thinking about Science
- PHL2230 Feminist Philosophers
- PHL2650 Philosophy of Mind - also available with permission as PHL1650
- PHL2670 Philosophy of Religion
- PHL2115 / PHL3115 Making Knowledge: Modern Scientific Controversies
- PHL2260 / PHL3260 Philosophy of Art
- PHL2330 / PHL3330 Issues in Political Philosophy
- PHL2510 / PHL3510 Political Philosophy
- PHL2810 / PHL3810 Environmental Ethics
- PHL2850 / PHL3850 Topics in Indian Philosophy
- PHL3240 Aristotle and Aristotelianism
- PHL3310 Recent Philosophy
- PHL3350 Moral Psychology
- PHL3410 Theory of Knowledge
- PHL3430 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
- PHL3570 Recent Logic
- PHL3590 Mind and Meaning
- PHL3610 Philosophy of Law
- PHL3690 Metaphysics
- PHL3790 Issues in Logical Theory
- PHL3880 Space, Time and Deity: themes from Leibniz and Hume
- PHL3890 Stoic and Epicurean Philosophy
- CHB2100 Ethics, Ownership and the Genetic Marketplace
- INT2910 / INT3910 Poverty, Ecology and International Justice
- INT2920 / INT3920 The Ethics of Global Conflict.
Caulfield
- PHL2150 Ethics - also available with permission as PHL1150
- PHL2650 Philosophy of Mind - also available with permission as PHL1650.
Students can also complete a Philosophy sequence either by taking some subjects in Off-campus learning mode or by attending classes at Clayton.
Gippsland
Students can complete a Philosophy sequence either by taking some subjects in Off-campus learning mode or if it would be feasible, by attending classes at Clayton.
Off-campus learning
- PHL2001 Ethics at Work: Ethical Issues in Professional Life (previously IDS2001) - in 2008, not to be offered in OCL mode; in 2009, offering to be confirmed.
- PHL2110 Res Cogitans: Descartes on Mind and Knowledge
- PHL2150 Ethics - also available with permission as PHL1150
- PHL2210 Thinking about Science
- PHL2850 / PHL3850 Topics in Indian philosophy
- PHL3880 Space, Time and Deity: themes from Leibniz and Hume
- PHL3890 Stoic and Epicurean Philosophy.
For further details about these units, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/philosophy/ugrad/units.