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PHIL3681: Aesthetics and Art Advanced
2024 unit information
This is the advanced version of PHIL2681, with common lectures, but separate tutorials and assessment. In this unit we will explore the idea that a work of art is best thought of on the model of intentional action. By considering examples of painting, sculpture, literature, conceptual art, film and photography we will consider questions of artifactuality, artistic intentionality, interpretation, and objecthood. A guiding theme will be the challenge to a demanding conception of art posed by various forms of skepticism about art including relativism, physicalism, and a modern scientific-minded cynicism about non-scientific understanding.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Philosophy
| Code | PHIL3681 |
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| Academic unit | Philosophy |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. This unit of study will acquaint students with contemporary ways of approaching and understanding art philosophically. Students will critically engage with key texts from historical and modern sources in the philosophy of art. This course will challenge students to ask what art is, how to and why it matters to us. Generically, this unit of study will impart new understandings of art and its philosophy, enhance reflective thinking skills, and enhance the ability to speak and write analytically, independently, and clearly.
- LO2. Identify, formulate and assess philosophical problems and demonstrate an understanding of important conceptual distinctions.
- LO3. Demonstrate disciplinary expertise in several major areas of philosophy, such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, the history of philosophy, logic, metaphysics, theories of the self, philosophy of science, and political philosophy.
- LO4. Express themselves precisely and demonstrate an ability to make rationally persuasive arguments.
- LO5. Demonstrate sensitivity, intellectual honesty, generosity and cultural competence in interpretation and argument.
- LO6. Effectively apply philosophical knowledge and approaches to issues encountered in an interdisciplinary context.
- LO7. Read, understand and critically engage with philosophical texts both historical and contemporary.
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