Overview

This unit considers the way authority bearing practices are communicated and experienced. It also looks at the historical and conceptual difficulties involved in identifying and contesting false authority. The unit will focus primarily on Michel Foucault's writing on these topics. We will start with his treatment of language in The … For more content click the Read More button below.

Rules

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Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Professor Alison Ross

Unit Coordinator(s)

Professor Alison Ross

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:
1.

Understand major developments in social ontology

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Be able to analyse and critically discuss key texts in the literature

3.

Have gained expertise in Speech-Act Theory and the pragmatics of communication, and appreciate their application to topics in social & political philosophy and ethics

4.

Demonstrate the capacity to interpret and evaluate important concepts, arguments and texts, as well as to put forward ideas and arguments of their own in a clear and cogent way

Assessment summary

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment

1 - Presentation
2 - Essay
3 - Other

Workload requirements

Workload

Availability in areas of study

Philosophy