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Department of Philosophy

STUDENT HANDBOOK

FOR

THIRD YEAR

B.A. Programme&

B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics Programme&

B.Sc. (in Computational Thinking) Programme

2018-2019

IMPORTANT: Please read carefully the contents of this Handbook as it contains important information about philosophy modules and their assessment for Third Year students.

CONTENTS

The Department of Philosophy

Contact Details 1

Third Year B.A. Teaching and Administrative Staff 1Co-ordinatorsStaff-Student Liaison Committee 1

Philosophy Department Notice Boards, Moodle and Website 2Student Emails 2Library Enquiries Contact 2

Programme Advisory Office Brief Introduction 2

2018–2019 Third Year Programmes

in Philosophy: 3

List of Philosophy Modules Available 3First Semester Modules 4Second Semester Modules 6

General Information for Third Year:

BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)

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Prizes and Awards 10

MA Programmes 10

International Students 11

Non-Philosophy Students wishing to

take a Philosophy Module 11

Department of Philosophy: Guidelines on Referencing and Bibliography

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Maynooth University Writing Centre

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A Note on Plagiarism 13

Essay Submission Procedure

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Examinations Grading/ Marking System

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Experiential Learning 15

THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

Contact Details:

Maynooth University, Tel: +353 1 7083661Maynooth, Fax: +353 1 7084525Co. Kildare. Email:

[email protected] Website: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/philosophy

BA: Year ThreeTeaching and Administrative Staff:

Staff E-mail Office No Phone Ext.

Prof. Philipp W. Rosemann

Head of Department of Philosophy

[email protected]

Room 12 Arts Building

3575

Prof. Michael W. Dunne

Professor [email protected]

Room 17 Arts Building 3697

Dr Amos Edelheit

Lecturer [email protected]

Room 16 Arts Building

3680

Dr Susan Gottlöber

Lecturer (On Sabbatical in Second Semester)

[email protected]

Room 13 Arts Building

3695

Dr Mette Lebech Lecturer [email protected]

Room 15 Arts Building

3718

Dr Cyril McDonnell

Lecturer [email protected]

Room 14 Arts Building

3698

Dr Bartholomew Begley

Occasional Lecturer

1.36 Callan Building

3646

Dr Simon Nolan Occasional Lecturer

[email protected] 1.36 Callan Building

3646

Administrative Officer:

Ms Ann Gleeson [email protected]

Room 10/11 Arts Building

3661

Co-ordinators3rd Year B.A. Co-ordinator: Dr Cyril McDonnell3rd Year B.Sc. (in Computational Thinking) Co-ordinator: Dr Cyril McDonnell3rd Year BA. (in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) Programme Co-ordinator:

Dr Susan GottlöberInternational Students Co-ordinator: Dr Amos Edelheit

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Mature Students/ Access Advisor: Dr Amos Edelheit MA & PhD Postgraduate Co-ordinator: Dr Mette LebechMA (in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) Programme Co-ordinator: Dr Susan GottlöberMA (in Ancient, Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy) Programme Co-ordinator:

Prof. Michael Dunne.

Staff-Student Liaison Committee: Students from each year elect two representatives for this committee in addition to teaching staff of the department. The year co-ordinator (Dr Cyril McDonnell) will facilitate the election of two representatives by the third year students. For this year, the teaching staff of the department is represented by: Professor Philipp Rosemann, Professor Michael Dunne and Dr Mette Lebech.

Philosophy Department Notice Boards, Moodle and Website:

The Department’s notice boards, moodle and the website are important methods of communicating with students. Important information (e.g. tutorial times and lists, changes in the timetable or in lecture times) will be posted there from time to time. Please consult these notice boards, Moodle, and the website regularly. Thank you.

Student Emails:

The department communicates with students through your university email account, received at registration. Please check your Maynooth University email account regularly, as this is an important means of communication with the department and the university.

Library Enquiries: Please contact Áine Carey ([email protected]) or Niall O’Brien ([email protected]) with enquiries and suggestions.

PROGRAMME ADVISORY OFFICE: Brief Introduction.

The Programme Advisory Office is available to advise you on any choices you might have to make related to your programme including subject choice.

The Programme Advisory Office can be contacted via Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01 474 7428In person: please see their website for information about meeting a member of the Programme Advisory Team: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/programme-advisory-office

Overview of PAO The Programme Advisory Office, within the Office of the Dean of Teaching and Learning, is available to advise you on any choices you might have to make related to your programme including subject choice. The Programme Advisory Office acts as a

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guide to students as you navigate your own way through your programme options. The Programme Advisory Office consists of the Programme Advisor, Caitriona McGrattan, who is supported by a team of PG students during peak times.Incoming first year students are briefed by the Programme Advisor during Welcome Week about the programme choices you will be asked to make during your academic journey at Maynooth University. The Programme Advisory Team are available in person to answer any follow up questions students may have: details of times and location are available on the PAO website. Continuing second year students may also avail of the service if you are unsure about your programme options for example if you have any questions about the difference in major/minor pathways or whether or not to choose to take an Elective.

The Programme Advisory Office can be contacted viaEmail: [email protected] Telephone: 01 474 7428In person: please see their website for information about meeting a member of the Programme Advisory Team: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/programme-advisory-office

N.B. Students register for ECTs (European Credit Transfer System) at the beginning of each semester online. One full-year of study at university amounts to 60 ECTs (Credits). Students, therefore, will need 60 Module-Credits in Year Three to graduate.

All Third Year B.A. philosophy modules are worth 5 Credits each.

THIRD-YEAR PROGRAMMES in Philosophy

Philosophy may be taken, with other Arts Subjects at Maynooth University, in a:

(i) Major-Minor Subject combination(ii) Double-Major Subject combination(iii) Minor-Major Subject combination

(i) Students choosing philosophy as the major subject in the major-minor combination take philosophy modules worth 40 Credits (and 20 Credits for their other minor subject chosen).

(ii) Students choosing philosophy as part of their double major combination take philosophy modules worth 30 Credits (with 30 Credits for their other major subject chosen).

(iii) Students choosing philosophy as a minor subject in the minor-major combination take philosophy modules worth 20 Credits (and 40 credits for their other Major Subject chosen).

There are two compulsory philosophy modules for third year students:

PH347 Modern Philosophy (First Semester) PH349 Contemporary Philosophy (Second Semester) All other modules are Elective Modules.

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(i) Students reading philosophy as the major subject in the major-minor combination take four philosophy modules (20 Credits) in Semester One and four philosophy modules (20 Credits) in the Semester Two.

(ii) Students reading philosophy as part of their double major degree take 3 philosophy modules (15 Credits) in Semester One and three philosophy modules (15 Credits) in Semester Two.

(iii) Students reading philosophy as a minor subject take two philosophy modules (10 Credits) in Semester One and two philosophy modules (10 Credits) in Semester Two.

The Third Year of the BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics comprises compulsory and elective modules in philosophy. (See further details below, pp. 9–10.)

The Philosophy Module PH334A Topics in Analytic Philosophy is available as an Elective Module for Third Year B.Sc. in Computational Thinking Programme students.

Full details of the times of lectures will be posted on the Philosophy Department notice boards (located in the corridor outside of the Departmental Office, Room No. 10/11, Arts Building) and on the webpage at the beginning of the academic year and are available via Maynooth University’s on-line timetable: https://apps.maynoothuniversity.ie/timetable/

2018–2019: List of Philosophy Modules Available to 3rd Year: Major-Minor, Double Major, and Minor-Major Undergraduate

Degree Programmes

Module Code

Credits

Semester

Compulsory

MODERN PHILOSOPHY PH347

5 1

RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY. METHODS AND PRACTICES

PH330

5 1

RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY. METHODS AND PRACTICES: EXTENDED ESSAY-ASSIGNMENT

PH330B

5 1

PHENOMENOLOGY AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY

PH331A

5 1

TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF TOLERATION

PH348

5 1

CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY PH349

5 2

ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE CRITIQUE OF RELIGION -KANT AND AFTER

PH302

5 2

POST-KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: EXTENDED ESSAY-ASSIGNMENT

PH302B

5 2

PHENOMENOLOGY AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: EXTENDED ESSAY ASSIGNMENT.

PH331B

5 2

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Module Code

Credits

Semester

Compulsory

TOPICS IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY PH334A

5 2

TOPICS IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY: EXTENDED ESSAY-ASSIGNMENT

PH334B

5 2

DESCARTES, HOBBES, SPINOZA PH350

5 2

DISSERTATION PH316A

5 Year-Long

FIRST SEMESTER

PH347 MODERN PHILOSOPHY (5 ECTS) — COMPULSORY MODULEDr Bartholomew Begley

This module provides an introduction to modern philosophy by reading three canonical texts: Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Hegel’s Introduction to the Philosophy of History, and Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy. The texts are quite different from each other, with apparently quite different concerns, and will be studied as discreet units, but we must ask finally how and whether Nietzsche’s book is heir to the work of his two famous predecessors. A major part of the benefit from such a course is the effort of reading and teasing out for oneself the issues and ramifications of important texts. None of the three texts is very long, so that students will be expected to read the texts in full. The class will be in lecture format, but students must come prepared to discuss the material: there will be assigned excerpts for each class session, and students will be expected to electronically submit before each class short responses to the reading, and to be able to discuss in class problems and points in the text. Some additional reading will also be discussed: excerpts from other works by the core authors, excerpts from works by others which influenced the core texts, and secondary studies.

Assessment: 100% Continuous AssessmentContinuous Assessment detail(s):  Mid-term essay (c. 2,000 words) 30%; Final essay (c. 3,000 words) 70%. Repeat Option:Mid-term essay (2,000 words) [30%]; final essay (3,000 words) [70%]

PH330 RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY: METHODS AND PRACTICES (5 ECTS)Dr Amos Edelheit — ELECTIVE MODULE

This module examines different methods and practices in Renaissance Philosophy. It begins with a discussion of the methods and practices found in the late medieval philosophical schools in the 14th century as the immediate background of Renaissance Philosophy and then addresses some theories, methods, and practices of prominent thinkers between the mid-fourteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century, mainly in Italy (Francesco Petrarca, Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo Valla, Giovanni Dominici, Georgios Gemistos Plethon, Antoninus of

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Florence, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Giorgio Benigno Salviati, Bernardo Torni, Desiderius Erasmus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Francesco Patrizi.) It also deals with the significance of the relations between philosophy and theology, pagan antiquity and Christian teaching, man and God, various themes in moral psychology and political philosophy, as well as in the philosophy of language, science, and in metaphysics, and specific terms like Aristotelianism and Platonism during this period.

Assessment: 100% continuous assessmentContinuous assessment Detail(s). Final Essay Assignment (c. 3,000 words).Repeat Option:Final Essay Assignment c. 3,000 words.

*THE FOLLOWING ELECTIVE IS AVAILABLE TO PHILOSOPHY MAJOR-MINOR STUDENTS ONLY*PH330B: RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY: METHODS AND PRACTICES: EXTENDED

ESSAY ASSIGNMENT (5 ECTS credits) Dr Amos Edelheit

Students will be expected to engage in supervised guided research on an approved essay-assignment topic set by the module lecturer for PH330 Renaissance Philosophy: Methods and Practices and produce a written essay-assignment of c. 3,000 words. The format of the essay-assignment must conform to the normal guidelines for academic essay-writing in philosophy and essay-submission procedures set out in the Departmental Handbook for Students and normal submission of drafts by the student to the supervisor for comment and correction before final submission of the essay-assignment at the end of the Semester

Assessment: 100% Continuous Assessment: Extended Essay-Assignment (c. 3,000 words). Repeat Option: Extended essay assignment (c. 3,000 words).

PH331A: PHENOMENOLOGY AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY (5 ECTS) Dr Mette Lebech — ELECTIVE MODULE

This module provides an introduction to Phenomenology as a method and to Continental Philosophy as a set of traditions originating with the phenomenological movement. Texts by Husserl, Reinach, Stein, De Beauvoir, Heidegger and Levinas will be studied. Emphasis will be placed on Phenomenology as a philosophical and academic practice with potential importance for all or most subjects. Tracing the history of the various traditions issuing from the criticism of the practice of phenomenology will enable us to reflect on the various varieties or definitions of phenomenology and their relationship with each other. The central questions addressed will be: 1. is phenomenology a method, a science or a style of thinking? 2. Is the idea that intentionality is central to consciousness and can be analyzed in its noetic and noematic components essential to phenomenology? 3. What role does eidetic analysis play for phenomenology? 4. What criticisms have been raised of Phenomenology and what is their validity? Timothy Mooney and Dermot Moran (eds.): The Phenomenology Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 2002) will be used as textbook.

Assessment: 100% continuous assessmentContinuous assessment Detail(s). Final Essay Assignment (c. 3,000 words).Repeat Option:Final Essay Assignment c. 3,000 words.

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*THE FOLLOWING ELECTIVE IS AVAILABLE TO PHILOSOPHY MAJOR-MINOR STUDENTS ONLY*PH331B: PHENOMENOLOGY AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY (5 ECTS)

Dr Mette Lebech

Students will be expected to engage in supervised guided research on an approved essay-assignment topic set by the module lecturer for PH331B Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy and produce a written essay-assignment of c. 3,000 words. The format of the essay-assignment must conform to the normal guidelines for academic essay-writing in philosophy and essay-submission procedures set out in the Departmental Handbook for Students and normal submission of drafts by the student to the supervisor for comment and correction before final submission of the essay-assignment at the end of the Semester.

Assessment: 100% Continuous Assessment: Extended Essay-Assignment (c. 3,000 words). Repeat Option: Extended essay assignment (c. 3,000 words).

PH348 TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF TOLERANCE (5 ECTS credits)Dr Susan Gottlöber and Professor Michael Dunne — ELECTIVE MODULE

This course will investigate the concept of toleration, its importance but also its limits. We will start with a brief historical introduction, looking in particular at Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa and John Locke. These three exemplary figures illustrate how European thinkers tried to respond to the political-religious conflicts of their time, by using toleration as a means to engage with otherness in a peaceful manner while also emphasizing the limits of toleration. We will then proceed to examine different contemporary concepts of toleration, using the ideas of the political theorist Rainer Forst as a foundation. We will finish by looking at some contemporary philosophical reflections on the necessity of the limits of toleration by philosophers such as Habermas, Derrida, Kuçandi and Ricœur.

Assessment: 100% Continuous AssessmentContinuous Assessment detail(s): broken down as follows: 10% reaction papers 90% multi-stage essay assignment (10% abstract, 10% bibliography, 30% first draft, 50% final essay, 2,000 words).

Repeat Option:Autumn repeat essay questions will be set. Repeat marks will be capped at 40. Continuous assessment will be carried forward

Pass Requirements: As set out in the University Marks & Standards. Minimum of 70% attendance and submission of the final essay. If the minimum of 70% attendance is not met, the mark will be capped at 35%.

SECOND SEMESTER

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PH349 CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY (5 ECTS) — COMPULSORY MODULE

Professor Philipp W. Rosemann This module approaches contemporary philosophy not chronologically, as a history of ideas, but in terms of some of the major issues of contemporary life that philosophers have attempted to address. For each of these issues, we will read a classic work by one important thinker. Thus the emphasis of this module will be on depth rather than breadth. The issues and thinkers/works studied will be taken from at least three of the following:

1) the role of technology in modern life: Heidegger, ‘The Question concerning Technology’;2) the social and psychological effects of capitalism: Simmel, Philosophy of Money;3) the sexualization of the self: Foucault, History of Sexuality, vol. 1;4) colonialism and racism: Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks;5) the foundations of morality: MacIntyre, After Virtue;6) the possibility of religious belief: Kearney, Anatheism.

These works and thinkers exemplify some of the distinctive approaches and concerns of twentieth-century movements in philosophy such as Neokantianism, post-metaphysical “thinking,” historicism, Marxism, post-colonialism, and postmodern Christian thought.

Assessment: 100% Continuous AssessmentContinuous Assessment detail(s): Two essays of ca. 2,500 words each (50% each essay).Repeat Option:Two essay assignments (50% each), c. 2,500 words.

PH302: ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE CRITIQUE OF RELIGION (5 ECTS credits)Dr Cyril McDonnell

This module focuses on philosophy of religion in the modern period from Descartes down to the present. It examines Descartes’s ontological argument for the existence of God; Kant’s rejection of transcendental arguments in metaphysics for the existence of God; Hegel’s account of the historical unfolding of the concept of Absolute Spirit; Kierkegaard’s defence of the significance of individual faith in religious thinking; Schleiermacher’s reflections on the finite and infinite in religious self-consciousness; Levinas’s rejection of the priority of ‘the question of the meaning of being’ in Heidegger’s definition of philosophy and phenomenology in the twentieth century and Levinas’s retrieval, instead, of the significance of the trace of the infinite in the existence of ‘the other’ as documented in religious traditions and in ethical-religious experience for interpreting human self-understanding; Desmond’s reflections on God and the between, in the twenty-first century.

Assessment: 100% Continuous AssessmentContinuous Assessment detail(s): two essay assignments, worth 50% each, (c. 2,000 words).

Repeat Options:Two essay assignments (50% each), c. 2,000 words each.

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*THE FOLLOWING ELECTIVE IS AVAILABLE TO PHILOSOPHY MAJOR-MINOR STUDENTS ONLYPH302B: POST-KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: EXTENDED ESSAY-

ASSIGNMENT (5 ECTS)Dr Cyril McDonnell

Students will be expected to engage in supervised guided research on an approved essay-assignment topic set by the module lecturer for PH302 ‘Enlightenment and the Critique of Religion: Kant and After’ and produce a written essay-assignment of c. 3,000 words. The format of the essay-assignment must conform to the normal guidelines for academic essay-writing in philosophy and essay-submission procedures set out in the Departmental Handbook for Students and normal submission of drafts by the student to the supervisor for comment and correction before final submission of the essay-assignment at the end of the Semester.

Assessment: 100% Continuous Assessment: Extended Essay-Assignment (c. 3,000 words). Repeat Option: Extended essay assignment c. 3,000 words.

PH334A: TOPICS IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY (5 ECTS)Dr Simon Nolan

This module traces the development of twentieth-century analytic philosophy through studying the work of some of its major exponents. The focus will be on philosophy of language, thought and world. An emphasis of the module will be the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) as found both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and in his later Philosophical Investigations (a work Wittgenstein was in the process of revising and editing during his time in Ireland). Other key thinkers to be studied will be Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap, A. J. Ayer, Wilfrid Sellars, W. V. O. Quine, Saul Kripke, John Searle, and John McDowell. The module will also consider analytic approaches to philosophy of mind and the philosophy of artificial intelligence.

Assessment: 100% continuous assessmentContinuous assessment Detail(s). Final Essay Assignment (c. 3,000 words).Repeat Option:Final Essay Assignment c. 3,000 words.

*THE FOLLOWING ELECTIVE IS AVAILABLE TO PHILOSOPHY MAJOR-MINOR STUDENTS ONLY*PH334B: TOPICS IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY: EXTENDED ESSAY-ASSIGNMENT

(5 ECTS)Dr Simon Nolan

Students will be expected to engage in supervised guided research on an approved essay-assignment topic set by the module lecturer for PH334A ‘Topics in Analytic Philosophy’ and produce a written essay-assignment of c. 3,000 words. The format of the essay-assignment must conform to the normal guidelines for academic essay-writing in philosophy and essay-submission procedures set out in the Departmental Handbook for Students and normal

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submission of drafts by the student to the supervisor for comment and correction before final submission of the essay-assignment at the end of the Semester.

Assessment: 100% Continuous Assessment: Extended Essay-Assignment (c. 3,000 words). Repeat Option: Extended essay assignment (c. 3,000 words).

PH336A: DESCARTES, HOBBES, SPINOZA (5 ECTS)Dr Amos Edelheit

This module aims to present, discuss and criticize some of the main philosophical achievements of three canonical figures in early modern philosophy: René Descartes (1596–1650), Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), in the context of the new philosophical and scientific discourse of the 17th century. We shall examine their contributions to the formation of different aspects of modernity on the one hand and their critique of the ‘men of the schools’ (i.e., contemporary scholastic philosophers and their ‘traditional methods’), on the other hand.

Assessment: 100% continuous assessmentContinuous assessment Detail(s). Final Essay Assignment (c. 3,000 words).Repeat Option:Final Essay Assignment c. 3,000 words.

PH316A DISSERTATION (5 ECTS)Module Co-ordinator: Professor Michael W. Dunne

Students will be expected to engage in supervised independent research on an approved topic in philosophy and to produce a written dissertation of c. 5000 words on that topic.

The topic of the dissertation will be selected by the individual student who then approaches a member of the Department who must agree to supervise the student and to sign a form to this effect. The student then informs the Departmental Administrative Officer who issues a letter to be brought to Registration. In the course of writing the essay the student must be in regular contact with the supervisor. Students should also keep up-to-date with advisory postings from the Module Co-ordinator on Moodle concerning the module.

Assessment: 100% continuous assessment Continuous Assessment detail(s):  100% for dissertation of ca. 5,000

words. Submission deadline: No later than the last day of lectures in the second semester. Dissertations must be submitted through Turnitin.

Prerequisites:Upper second-class honours standing.Agreement on a topic with a supervisor prior to registration.

Repeat Option:The Dissertation is to be submitted by a date specified on Moodle which will be before the end of the supplemental Autumn examinations period. The mark for

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the Dissertation will be capped at 50%.

GENERAL INFORMATION FOR THIRD YEAR BA IN PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS (PPE)

For any queries regarding the B.A. in P.P.E. or the M.A. in P.P.E programmes, please contact the programmes’ coordinator: Dr Susan Gottlöber Email: [email protected]

Welcome back to your final year of the BA PPE at Maynooth General Information

PPE is a three year B.A. (four year B.A. International) which allows you to study all three subjects (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) in all three years (rather than having to drop one subject as in the Arts degree). As you know, this year you have the opportunity to continue to tailor your degree to fit your interests and intended specialization. This may also be the time for you to consider a Postgraduate degree in PPE.

The third year course consists of 60 credits worth of modules. Please note that there is one compulsory module for each subject in each semester [printed in bold below]. All other modules may be chosen according to your own interest.

Course Outline Third YearFirst semester:

Philosophy:PH348 Towards a Philosophy of Toleration (compulsory)PH316A Dissertation (semester I and II)PH330 Renaissance Philosophy. Methods and PracticesPH331A Phenomenology and Continental PhilosophyPolitics:PO315 Irish Politics and Society (compulsory)GY337 Geopolitics. Power and SpacePO311 The Politics of Ethnic Conflict in Europe and the Wider World PO312 Gender and Politics SO319 Revolutions

Economics:EC301 Advanced Microeconomics (compulsory)EC306 EconometricsEC311 Economics of Environment and Natural ResourcesEC217 Economics of the European UnionFN205 Corporate FinanceFN307 Derivatives I: Forwards, Futures and SwapsGY221 Economic GeographyGY321 Geography of the Information EconomyAN232 Economic Anthropology

Second semester:Philosophy:PH349 Contemporary Philosophy (compulsory)PH302 Enlightenment and the Critique of Religion – Kant and After

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PH334A Topics in Analytic PhilosophyPH350 Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza

Politics:PO209 Political Parties, Elections and Corruption (compulsory)GY327 Environmental PoliticsGY347 Electoral GeographyKD311 Africa and the International SystemPO314 Policies and Policy-Making in the European UnionSO311 Sociology of DevelopmentSO324 Threats, Risks, Conflict and Human SecuritySO338 Sex, Law and SocietySP304 Social Policy and Welfare States in Times of Change

Economics:EC302 Advanced Macroeconomics (compulsory)EC307 Irish EconomyEC308 Competition and RegulationEC318 International Trade and GlobalisationEC319 Economics of Work and Life DecisionsEC399 Economics Thesis (semester I and II)FN206 Corporate Finance (Financial Management)FN305 InvestmentsFN309 International FinanceKD201 Globalisation, the Economy and Development

Please consult the individual Departments and Departmental handbooks for requirements and detailed module information.

For queries regarding the individual subjects, please contact the Departmental subject co-ordinators: Philosophy subject co-ordinator: Dr Susan Gottlöber, Email:

[email protected] Politics subject co-ordinator: Dr Barry Cannon; Email: [email protected] Economics subject co-ordinator: Dr Simon Broome, Email:

[email protected]

PRIZES AND AWARDS

The Professor Thomas A.F. Kelly Prize is given to the student who obtains highest overall mark in Third Arts.Third Year PPE Prize is given to the student who obtains the highest overall mark in Third Arts BA in PPE programme.Recipients of prizes will be conferred with the Award at the Annual Prize Giving Ceremony.

M.A. PROGRAMMES

Students interested in the M.A. and PhD programmes in philosophy should contact the post-graduate Co-ordinator, Dr Mette Lebech.

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Students interested in the M.A. in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Thought Programme (joint M.A. with the Department of Ancient Classics) should contact Professor Dunne.

Students interested in the M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics Programme (joint M.A. with the Department of Sociology) should contact Dr Susan Gottlöber.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

International students who wish to study philosophy at Maynooth University are free to attend any of the modules offered by the Department during the year/semester of their visit. There may be, however, certain restrictions imposed by the student’s home institution or timetabling of modules in Maynooth University.

The selection for modules for international students is done “on-line” before students arrive at Maynooth University, in co-operation with the student’s home institution and the International Students Co-ordinators of the various departments at Maynooth University who implement the approval/ not approval system. Upon arriving at Maynooth University, study abroad students may wish to discuss their choice of mod-ules with their International Students’ Coordinators. As a matter of courtesy, stu-dents are requested to inform the Departmental Administrative Officer of any change in their program of studies insofar as it may relate to the Department of Philosophy.

Examination Procedures for Visiting International Students

There is no difference in how ‘home’ and visiting international students are assessed. This applies except if in the first semester, a module has a final written examination in January. In its place, international students (who presumably leave the country at Christmas) will do an essay assignment set by the module lecturer.

NON-PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS WISHING TO TAKE A PHILOSOPHY MODULE

Non-Philosophy Students who wish to take a philosophy Module are welcome, but should be aware that advanced courses will be difficult. They should consult before-hand with the appropriate Module Lecturer and the Head of Department.

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY GUIDELINES ON REFERENCING AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

(1.) Referencing:

Referencing your sources in academic essay-writing is essential. All works that you have either directly cited or paraphrased in the essay which you have submitted to

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the Department of Philosophy for assessment should be properly acknowledged and referenced in your essay (by way of footnotes or endnotes).

There are several referencing styles in existence, such as for instance: the APA (American Psychological Association), MLA (Modern Language Association), Chicago/ Turabian, MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) style and the Author-Date system (often referred to as the ‘Harvard’ system of referencing). The Author/ Date system of referencing, however, is not very suitable for essays in philosophy [e.g., Plato (2006:45)].

The Philosophy Department recommends students to follow the guidelines on referencing provided in the Modern Humanities Research Association: Style Book, [MHRA Style Guide] which is available on line at http://www.mhra.org.uk/style., and to use footnotes (rather than endnotes). Please consult this very useful Style Guide — it contains helpful information on many points, in addition to referencing, such as, for instance, on punctuation, the use of abbreviations and exclamation marks, spelling etc.

Here are some examples of footnote references, using the MHRA Style Guide:

List books by giving the author’s full name, the title (book titles must be put in italics), with place and date of publication, as follows:

Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (London: Duckworth, 1990), p. 123.

List articles in edited collections by giving the author’s full name, the title of the article, the title of the collection and the editor/s, its place and date of publication, with page numbers, as follows:

David Couzens Hoy, ‘Heidegger and the Hermeneutic Turn’, in The Cambridge Guide to Heidegger, ed. by Charles B. Guignon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 170–194 (p. 185).

List articles in journals, by giving the author’s full name, the title of the article (article titles must be put in single quotation marks), the title of the journal, its volume and year, with page numbers [no. ‘pp.’], as follows:

Cornelius Fabro, ‘The Transcendentality of Ens-Esse and the Ground of Metaphysics’, International Philosophical Quarterly, 6 (1966), 389–427 (p. 397).

N.B. A Note on References to works by Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae :

There are many translations and editions of the works of Plato and Aristotle; so, in modern-day scholarship, ‘Stephanus numbers’ and ‘Bekker numbers’ are used respectively to identify the original texts of Plato and Aristotle, giving page number+the letter (a–e, each page is divided into five), and the lines number, e.g., Plato, Apologia, 39e4–40a5.

Since students do not read the Greek text, but a translation, it is of importance to give both details, e.g:

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Plato, Apology, 39d–41b, in Plato: The Last Days of Socrates, trans. by Hugh Tredennick (London: Penguin, 1969), pp. 45–76 (p. 75).

Aristotle, De Anima, I, 402a 1–3, trans. by J. A. Smith, in The Works of Aristotle, ed. by W.D. Ross (Oxford: Clarendon,1931), III, p. 1.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 1, a. 4, ad 3. (Subsequent references, ST II-II, q. 1–2, a. 4–7.)

(2.) Bibliography:

In addition to references (i.e., footnotes or endnotes), it is of importance to supply, at the end of your essay-assignment, a bibliography of works that you have cited or consulted for your essay-assignment, even if such works were not cited directly by you in your submitted essay but which were of direct relevance to your essay-assignment research. Your bibliography, therefore, is more than an enumeration of works that you cited or consulted for it tells the reader the story of your research. A bibliography is essential in academic essay-writing. See the MHRA Style Guide for how to layout and organise the items in your bibliography.

MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY WRITING CENTREhttps://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/centre-teaching-and-learning/student-learning-and-advice/writing-centre

The Maynooth University Writing Centre has been established by the Centre for Teaching and Learning to support student academic writing.

The Writing Centre is located in Room 001 (Ground Floor) School of Education Building, on the North Campus.

The Maynooth University Writing Centre offers free, friendly, non-judgemental writing help to any student, undergraduate or postgraduate, regardless of course, degree or level. The support we offer is primarily through one-to-one appointments, where students can discuss their writing with peer/expert tutors.  In addition, Writing Centre staff offer writing workshops, support writing groups, engage in discipline specific work and research in academic writing and related fields.

Further information regarding the Centre’s opening hours and specific services will be posted on the Centre’s Moodle space. This can be accessed through the Maynooth University Moodle homepage.

ContactIf you have any questions about the Writing Centre or if you wish to make an appointment, please email us on: [email protected].

A Note on Plagiarism

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It was always tempting for some students to ‘cheat’ on essays by lifting parts from a book or even enlisting a friend’s help. Needless to say, what this does is prevent the student from learning how to think and write. It is, in the end, up to each individual what to make of the educational opportunity that he or she is offered: put it to good use or waste it.

In the Internet age, plagiarism—as the presentation of another’s work as one’s own is called—has become so easy that many universities, including Maynooth, now ask students to submit their essays via Turnitin, which is a software that detects plagiarism. It ‘reads’ an essay against millions of sources (including even other student essays) in the database. It is therefore highly unlikely that anyone will get away with plagiarism. Please don’t attempt it. Cases of plagiarism are automatically referred to the head of department, who will proceed according to the University’s published policy, which is available at this link: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/assets/document/MU%20Policy%20on%20Plagiarism%20Sept%202015v-1_0.pdf.

Sometimes it is tricky to determine what is plagiarism and what is not. In the course of your studies in Maynooth, you will learn how to cite sources correctly, so that it is always clear on whose words or ideas you are relying in developing your own thought. Likewise, you will learn how to format an essay according to proper academic standards.

ESSAY SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

The Department no longer accepts essays submitted in hard copy. Please submit all tutorial and final essays through Turnitin via Moodle. You need to observe the published deadline. It is unprofessional to submit an essay late.

For the final essay of each module, late submissions will not be accepted at all, unless you have obtained an extension from the module lecturer. Submit requests for an extension, stating the reasons for your request, via email at least a week before the submission due date, to the lecturer teaching the module. Include supporting documentation, such as a medical certificate. The lecturer will let you know his or her decision. Please note that extensions cannot be granted beyond the end of the relevant examination period.

EXAMINATIONS GRADING/ MARKING SYSTEM

Letter Grade

Descriptive Heading RepresentativePoint

Class

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A++ Answer which could not be bettered.

100 I

A+ Exceptional answer displaying unexpected insight.

90 I

A Undoubtedly first class, flawless answer, demonstrating originality.

80 I

A- Almost flawless answer demonstrating some originality

70 I

B+ Extremely high competence, perhaps displaying limited originality or technical flaws or minor errors

68 II-1

B Fundamentally correct and demonstrating overall competence.

65 II-1

B- Competent performance, substantially correct answer but possibly containing minor flaws or omissions.

60 II-1

C+ Awarded on the basis of the answer being somewhat better than a C but below a B-.

58 II-2

C Basically correct, answer with minor errors or one major error/omission.

55 II-2

C- Awarded on the basis of the answer being somewhat below a C but better than a D+.

50 II-2

D+ No more than adequate answer. 48 IIID Adequate answer with serious

errors or omissions.45 P

D- Lowest passing grade, barely deserving to pass.

40 P

E+ The answer is inadequate and does not deserve to pass.

38 F

E The answer fails to address the question properly but displays some knowledge of the material.

35 F

E- Fails to address the question. 30 FF+ Little relevant or correct material

but some evidence of engagement with question.

20 F

F Very little relevant or correct material.

10 F

F- Totally irrelevant answer. 0 F

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EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Experience More During Your Time at MU

The routes available to Maynooth students to experience more from their degree programme are diverse, enabling the development of rich learning experiences that connect classroom content with real-world experience. The Experiential Learning Office connects Maynooth students to a range of opportunities in the following areas.

Professional Development and Employability

Experiential learning professional development and employability modules are available to eligible second year students. The key purpose of these modules, involving a number of employers, is to facilitate students in their academic, personal and professional career development, so that they will be well equipped to secure internships and to successfully enter the graduate labour market.

See Skills for Success EX201 and EX202 for more details

MU SPUR (Summer Programme for Undergraduate Research)

An active research based and paid experiential learning programme for successful undergraduate pre-final year student applicants who wish to learn more about the postgraduate experience, by working closely with faculty mentors on research projects across a range of disciplines.

Community-Based Service Learning

Community Based Service Learning presents a credit-bearing academic experience that empowers students to engage with their surrounding communities, which often results in enhancing student’s academic, civic, social and personal development, whilst they contribute to the common good. The experiential learning office facilitates academic staff in offering community based service learning experiences with their students.

For further information, refer to: Website: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/experiential-learning-officeEmail: [email protected]: + 353 1 4747760

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