• The Greek Enlightenment and the most prominent Ancient Greek philosophers, most notably Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
• The intersection of Greek and Judeo-Christian thought in Late Antiquity.
• The nature of moral problems and an overview of important approaches to moral reasoning (e.g. consequentialism, rule morality, human rights, virtue ethics).

• Systematic study of questions relating to epistemology, philosophy of science and/or aesthetics.
• Note: Two of the three subdisciplines will be taught in any given year.

• Systematic study of questions relating to philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and/or applied ethics.
• Note: Two of the three subdisciplines will be taught in any given year.

The focus of this module is on conceptualisations of meaning in the work of de Saussure, Foucault and Derrida. The ethical and political implications of these positions will also be considered.

• Phenomenology as philosophical method and its relationship to existentialism (resp. existential phenomenology).
• Central themes and ideas in the work of philosophers such as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre.

This module will introduce the student to the contemporary philosophy of race. Focus areas in this module may include the metaphysics of race that pay particular attention to the differences between realist and antirealist views, as well as deflationism about race. This module will introduce the student to debates about the use of racial terminology in social, scientific and political settings. The module aims to give the student a good grounding in understanding the debates about the nature of race in the social and natural sciences, including how these debates spill over into the problems of race in everyday life.

This module offers an introduction to non-mainstream philosophical voices, authors and concerns. It critically enquires about the foundations, borders, key questions and the canon of the discipline, including its relation to other disciplines and styles of writing. Critical philosophical writings emerging from the margins and faultlines of the traditional discipline, such as Black feminist, critical legal and critical social, African and Africana, and decolonial texts, will be studied. Authors may include scholars like Theodor Adorno, Lewis Gordon, bell hooks, Emmanuel Levinas, Christina Sharpe, Frantz Fanon, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Adriana Caverero, Sanya Osha, Achille Mbembe and Sundhya Pahuja.

The origins of analytic philosophy and philosophical logic (Moore, Russell, Frege, Wittgenstein). Themes may include:

• Logical positivism (e.g. Schlick, Carnap, Neurath, Feigl, Waismann, Ayer).
• Linguistic analysis/philosophy of ordinary language (e.g. Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin).
• Scientific naturalism (e.g. Quine).
• Philosophical logic and the understanding of modality (e.g. Kripke, Putnam).
• Philosophy of mind: the analysis and evaluation of functionalism (e.g. Ryle, Putnam, Dennett, Searle, Chalmers).

• Themes such as the nature and justification of the state, the social contract, the sources of political legitimacy, and the nature of and conditions for freedom.
• Moral principles for the distribution of benefits and burdens among members of a society, e.g. fairness, equality, liberty, desert, need, communality or well-being.
• Problems relating to poverty, inequality and property ownership.

Culture and technology, applied ethics, social philosophy; the Engineering Council of SA (ECSA) code of conduct for professional persons; case studies of typical situations from the engineering practice, including the social, workplace and physical environment.