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4. List of courses

Key : $\clubsuit$ = offered in 2000/2001; 1 = first semester; 2 = second semester

First Level

PHIL1001 Knowledge of the world: an introduction to philosophy $\clubsuit$ 1
PHIL1002 The human mind: an introduction to philosophy $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL1003 Ethics and politics: an introduction to philosophy $\clubsuit$ 1
PHIL1004 Chinese and Western thought: an introduction to philosophy $\clubsuit$ 2

All Levels

PHIL1005 Critical thinking and logic $\clubsuit$ 1
PHIL1006 Elementary Logic (3 credits) $\clubsuit$ 12
PHIL2510 Logic $\clubsuit$ 2

Second/Third Levels

Group I : Knowledge and Reality

PHIL2110 Knowledge $\clubsuit$ 1
PHIL2210 Metaphysics $\clubsuit$ 1
PHIL2420 Chinese philosophy: metaphysics $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL2150 Philosophy and biology $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL2370 Aesthetics $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL2130 Philosophy of the sciences
PHIL2140 Philosophy of social science

Group II : Mind and Language

PHIL2220 The mind $\clubsuit$ 1
PHIL2215 Special topic : The Self $\clubsuit$ 1
PHIL2230 Philosophy and cognitive science $\clubsuit$ 1
PHIL2510 Logic $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL2460 Philosophical Chinese
PHIL2660 Symbolism
PHIL2520 Philosophy of logic
PHIL2610 Philosophy of language
PHIL2070 Pragmatism
PHIL2511 Paradoxes

Group III : Moral and Political Philosophy

PHIL2355 Special topic : Theories of Justice $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL2340 Moral problems $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL2360 The philosophy of politics $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL2350 Philosophy of law $\clubsuit$ 1
PHIL2390 Philosophy of religion $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL2380 Philosophy and literature
PHIL2080 Marxist philosophy
PHIL2310 Theories of morality
PHIL2430 Chinese philosophy: ethics
PHIL2480 Confucianism and the modern world
PHIL3610 Seminar on topics in linguistics and philosophy

Group IV : History of Philosophy

PHIL2010 Plato $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL2001 The beginnings of philosophy
PHIL2002 Early modern philosophy
PHIL2011 Aristotle
PHIL2020 Descartes
PHIL2025 Hume
PHIL2028 Locke and Leibniz
PHIL2030 Kant's critical philosophy
PHIL2040 Nietzsche
PHIL2055 Sartre and phenomenology
PHIL2060 Wittgenstein
PHIL2077 Habermas
PHIL2440 Confucius
PHIL2442 Mencius
PHIL2450 Zhuangzi
PHIL2700 Special topic

Other courses

PHIL3810 Senior seminar $\clubsuit$ 2
PHIL3910 Senior thesis (double course) $\clubsuit$
(only students majoring in philosophy may offer a thesis)

In addition to the above courses, the Department also offers the following courses to first- and second-year students from all faculties :

PHIL0001 Moral problems (broadening) (3 credits) $\clubsuit$ 2
YPHI0002 Culture, value, and meaning of life (3 credits) $\clubsuit$ 1

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Joe Lau
2000-06-22