Undergraduate Course: Topics in Philosophy (PHIL10265)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 0 |
ECTS Credits | 0 |
| Summary | This course will examine some particular issue or set of issues in philosophy. The specific content for the year (topic, representative readings) will be advertised during the course selection process. |
| Course description |
This year's topic will be advertised during the course selection process.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Knowledge and Reality (PHIL08017) AND
Mind, Matter and Language (PHIL08014)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students studying on MA Cognitive Science (Humanities) are permitted to take this course without having met the pre-requisites of Mind, Matter and Language and Knowledge and Reality. However, it is advisable that students discuss the suitability of the course with their Student Adviser and the Course Organiser before enrolling. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have completed at least 3 Philosophy courses at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses. Applicants should note that, as with other popular courses, meeting the minimum does NOT guarantee admission. **Please note that honours Philosophy courses are high-demand, meaning that they have a very high number of students wishing to enrol in a very limited number of spaces.** These enrolments are managed strictly by the Visiting Student Office, in line with the quotas allocated by the department, and all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. It is not appropriate for students to contact the department directly to request additional spaces. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Display understanding of a range of issues.
- Critically analyse and engage with literature by key philosophers.
- Present arguments clearly and concisely both within a classroom context and in a written essay.
- Demonstrate transferrable skills in research, analysis and argumentation.
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Reading List
- Frank Jackson. (1993) Perception: a representative theory.
- Corns ed. (2017) The Routledge handbook of philosophy of pain.
- Aydede ed. (2005) Pain: new essays on its nature and the methodology of its study
- Armstrong. (1993) A materialist theory of the mind
- Bain. (2003). Intentionalism and Pain
- Tye. (1995). A Representational Theory of Pains and their Phenomenal Character
- Hyman. (2003) Pains and Places
- Bain. (2007). The Location of Pains
- Klein. (2007). An Imperative Theory of Pain
- Bain. (2011). The Imperative View of Pain
- Corns (2014). The inadequacy of unitary characterizations of pain
- Melzack and Wall. (1996). The challenge of pain
- Grahek. (2007). Feeling pain and being in pain
- Dennett (1978). Why You Can't Make a Computer that Feels Pain
- Corns. (2016). Pain eliminativism: scientific and traditional -
- Heathwood. (2007). The reduction of sensory pleasure to desire
- Rachels. (2000). Is unpleasantness intrinsic to unpleasant experiences
- Bain. (2013). What makes pains unpleasant?
- Bain. (2014). Pains that Don't Hurt -
- De Vignemont. (2015). Pain and Bodily Care: Whose Body Matters? -
- Bramble. (2013). The distinctive feeling theory of pleasure -
- Berridge. (2004). Motivation concepts in behavioral neuroscience
- Corns and Cowan. (2020). Lessons for Ethics from the Science of Pain
- Derbyshire. (2006). Can fetuses feel pain?
- Jacobson. (2013). Killing the Messenger: Representationalism and the Painfulness of Pain
- Brady. (2015). Feeling Bad and Seeing Bad
- Bain. (2017). Why Take Painkillers?
- Cutter and Tye. (2014). Pains and reasons: why it is rational to kill the messenger |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Critical thinking; Problem solving; Curiosity |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Matthew Kinakin
Tel:
Email: mkinakin@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Cameron Findlay
Tel:
Email: cameron.findlay@ed.ac.uk |
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