副修哲学

什么是道德?? 什么是美?? 什么是自由? If you’ve ever caught yourself pondering some of life’s “big questions,正规澳门赌场网络的副修哲学可能适合你. 不像其他学科, philosophy directly and rigorously investigates questions like these, deepening your understanding of yourself and the world around you. 一个非常实用的程序, UNE’s Philosophy minor offers courses that are designed to connect philosophical ideas to “real world” topics and challenges that we face in society today. 此外, the program equips you with the intellectual skills you need to evaluate, 讨论, 辩论, and write about a wide variety of information and ideas, making it the perfect complement to any academic major and potentially increasing employability in practically any career field.

Unlike many academic disciplines that require navigation of a sharp learning curve before you can truly engage in them in a hands-on manner, UNE’s Philosophy minor is a program you can take part in right from day one. 事实上, you’ve likely already been involved in philosophical pursuits, 也许自己都没有意识到. By providing opportunities for skeptical and critical dialogue about ideas, our philosophy courses give you a better understanding of the force of ideas, 或者缺乏, while actively engaging your imagination and analytic reasoning skills — all from the moment you walk in the classroom door.

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跨学科研究与项目

You can think of the philosophy classroom as a laboratory of ideas that range from politics and ethics to artificial intelligence, 环境, 还有更多. By analyzing conceptual foundations and methodo逻辑al assumptions of various intellectual disciplines, philosophy lends itself well to interdisciplinary projects, leading to novel and fruitful developments in different fields by reconceiving things that have been taken for granted or by shedding light on things that have been overlooked. Many philosophy minors have applied a philosophical approach to their major field of study in order to produce original research and projects that combine the two disciplines. 过去的项目包括:

• A thesis on the ethics of coastal adaptation strategies made necessary by global warming
• A project that explored how stoicism was incorporated into the lives and politics of the Founding Fathers
• 对种族化的人的同化的研究
• A cross-cultural and historical investigation of the belief that the act of murder contaminates the killer

课堂活动

The Philosophy program at UNE is designed for active student engagement in the philosophical process. Memorizing the theories of Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche, and Marx is not the goal. We want to coax out your inner philosopher by providing you the tools to formulate your own theories as well as challenge those of others. 课程是高度互动的, 你会和你的同学进行辩论, 课堂讨论, 小组定期工作.