DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
(Main Building, 3rd floor)
Philosophy of the Sciences
lecturers: Professor Laurence Goldstein
Dr Joe Lau
Professor Tim Moore
topics proposed by students for the last part of the course
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- The relationship between animals and human beings
- The affect of animals: do animals feel emotions ?
- Ghosts/spirits
- Extra-terrestrial life
- Emotional quotient
- Dreaming
- Astronomy
- Logic and Truth
- Infinity
- Continuum
- Ethics and Science
- Under the Copenhagen interpretation [of Quantum Mechanics], there are determinate physical laws based on chaos: does this have a bearing on religion ?
- Schroedinger's cat should be half-alive and half-dead while the system is isolated. What about this thought-experiment ?
- Relativity Theory
- The existence of God
- Human cloning and its ethical problems
- Existentialism
- Utopianism
- Where do we go after death (if anywhere) ?
- What is a University ?
- Science and God
- Who am I ?
- Reductionism
- Chaos Theory and its applications
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Ancient Greek philosophy and science
- The influence of the development of modern science on philosophy
- Science, Social Science and Philosophy
- Ancient Chinese Philosophy
- How did the world come into being ?
- The chicken and the egg
- Fate
- What are time, length, mass, space ?
- Do the laws of nature really exist (i.e. we discover them) ? Or do we create them as a means of summarizing experiments and observations (so that they appear so beautiful just by chance) ?
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