Detailed curriculum, ex. phil. English University of Oslo, 2015
PART 1
History of Philosophy and Science
(A Selection of Basic Texts for Ex.Phil. in English, 2015)
Plato: The Meno
Plato: The Republic
(From Book V)
Aristotle: Metaphysics
(From Book A, ch 1 and 2)
Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics
(Book 1, ch 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8)
Aristotle: On the Soul
(From Book II)
Aristotle: Politics
(From Part XII and XIII)
Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
(Meditations 1 and 2)
Descartes: Discourse on Method
(Short extract from part 5)
Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
(”An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”)
Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
(From Book III, Of Morals)
Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
(”Of Chastity and Modesty”)
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
(From ”Preface to Second Edition”)
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
(From ”Introduction to the Second Edition”)
Kant: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
(First Section)
Kant: Anthropology
(”The Character of the Sexes”)
De Beauvoir: The Second Sex
(Introduction)
Mayr: What Makes Biology Unique?
(Chapter 2)
Heisenberg: The Physicist’s Conception of Nature
(”Atomic Physics and Causal Law”)
PART 2
Ethics
(Basic Texts for Examen Philosophicum in English, 2015)
Feldman, Fred: Relativism
Smart, JJC: Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics
Fried, Charles: Right and Wrong
Hursthouse, Rosalind: Virtue Theory and Abortion
Friedman, Marilyn: Feminism in Ethics
Singer: Taking Life. The Embryo and the Fetus
Singer: All Animals are Equal
Singer: The Environment