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Assessment Procedures in Philosophy
Here you can find the Rules regarding assessment in first
year philosophy and the Rules regarding assessment and
procedures regarding assignments and examination papers in
second and third year philosophy units.
Contacting Your Tutor
All Philosophy Tutors are available without appointment at
certain hours each week. These hours are displayed on the doors
of their offices.
If you cannot fit in with these times, you can make an
appointment through the Administrative Assistant (see the
'Contact' section of the Main Page) or, directly,
by e-mail from this site, as follows:
Most staff members can be contacted by e-mail by following
their name on the Staff
Page. If your tutor's name does not appear there, then you
should be able to find him or her through the List of Philosophy Tutors.
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Email
The University now uses email as
its official means of relaying information to students, and all
students are automatically assigned a free UWA email account,
whose user id is based on the individual's student number. You
must check your UWA email frequently. If you have a preferred
email account (e.g. a hotmail address) you can set up automatic
forwarding to this address from your UWA account.
Essential advice on using UWA's free email provision for
students, arranging dial-in access from home, etc. can be found
at Information Technology Services. Upgrading the basic access to a full-service
account will enable you to use from home the copyright material
available on-line from the UWA libraries.
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Essay Help
The first link here is to the UWA Philosophy Essay
Instructions. (A printed version is available from the
Administrative Assistant.) The others are to the cover sheets for
first year and upper-level essays.
Essay Plagiarism
Plagiarism is a punishable
offence, covered by a Faculty Policy which students are expected to know. And here is a brief discussion of what plagiarism is and how to
avoid it:
Plagiarism and Responsibility.
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Extension Request Form
You can download printable versions of the extension request
form for various Philosophy assignments here, in RTF (8KB) and PDF (80KB) formats. Remember
that extension requests normally must be made at least one
working day before the assignment is due (actual details may
vary from unit to unit). The form is designed to print out on a
single side of A4 paper; when using the form, you must make
sure that this format is preserved.
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Having Trouble?
There is help available for all kinds of problems (e.g.
language difficulties, medical, accommodation, financial, study
skills etc.) at
Student Services.
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On-line Texts
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On-line Unit Materials via WebCT
Access to on-line materials, including lecture recordings, is available via WebCT for many units. What is available varies from unit to unit. The
materials are especially extensive in the case of PHIL1105. WebCT is
reached at the WebCT Main Page, http://webct6.uwa.edu.au. You
must possess a password in order to access these materials.
Comprehensive instructions are available via a link from the
WebCT Main Page. Arts degree students have free access to the
Faculty's Undergraduate Computer Laboratories (Arts Building
Room 1.54 and Social Sciences Building Room 1.49). Students in
other programmes should use their own labs unless they prefer
to pay for access to the Arts labs.
Here is an Arts Faculty site where
you can get help with problems involving the use of UWA's computing facilities: Lab Help
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Past Examination Papers
Past examination papers are available in electronic form.
(If you don't find anything for your unit, it isn't there: a
small proportion of papers are never released for publication;
such papers are unavailable in electronic form.)
The papers are in PDF format. You will need the Adobe Reader
software to view them. This is already on the HSS library's own
computers. If you haven't got it already (and you can find it
in the Arts Faculty Software), download it from Adobe.
The examination papers themselves can be found through Course Materials Online, at the Library website. As Library URLs change frequently, no direct link is given here.
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Reference Works
On-Line Reference Works
Printed Reference Works
The most useful printed single-volume general reference
works in philosophy are these (library call numbers shown after
each entry; all are held in the HSS Library's reference
section):
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Robert Audi (ed.) The Cambridge Dictionary of
Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1995). R 103
1995 CAM. [Very thorough and careful, but often too
difficult for beginners, and has a strong North American
bias.]
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Simon Blackburn, The Oxford Dictionary of
Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1996). R 103
1996 OXF. [Well written and wide-ranging; usually more
approachable than the Cambridge Dictionary.]
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Edward Craig (ed.), The Concise Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 2000). R 100
2000 CON. [Consists of the summaries from the ten-volume
Routledge encyclopedia described below, so is especially
suitable for beginners.]
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Ted Honderich (ed.) The Oxford Companion to
Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1995). R 103
1995 OXF. [Entries are more discursive than the others in
this list, so consultation takes more time.]
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Thomas Mautner (ed.) A Dictionary of
Philosophy (Blackwell Publishers, 1996). R 103 1996
DIC. [Accessible entries of modest length.]
The Cambridge Dictionary and Oxford
Dictionary can be bought in paperback.
There are two multi-volume reference works for philosophy:
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The large scale eight-volume Encyclopedia of
Philosophy edited by Paul Edwards (Macmillan and the
Free Press, 1967) has been a standard work ever since its
first appearance. In March 1997 the Library obtained the
Supplement intended to bring the Encyclopedia
up to date. (But note that the original editor disapproves
of several of the articles in the Supplement.) The Edwards
volumes are held in the HSS Library's reference section at
R 103 1967-3.
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The even larger scale and more wide-ranging ten-volume
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy edited by
Edward Craig (Routledge, 1998) is in the Library at R 103 1998 ROU in its
printed version; a revised edition is also available on-line (see above). It should be less dated than the Edwards volumes,
and consistent care has been taken to make it accessible to
the least experienced likely readers of the articles
(including the provision of brief and clear summaries at
the start of all the longer articles) so that it should be
the most useful of all these works.
Warning: the individual entries in all the books mentioned
can be expected to vary in quality, usefulness and even
existence; you may need to consult the entries in several of
them to get a reliable picture.
Postgraduate Programmes in Australasia
This page provides links to details of the Philosophy
Postgraduate Programmes of the universities in Australia
and New Zealand.
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Student Administration's Student Access Page
HERE you
can enquire concerning Enrolment & HECS; enrol online;
check enrolment details; check exam timetables; read Faculty
Handbooks; change your address details; order academic
statements. (You will need a PIN, obtainable on application in
person to Student Administration.)
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Using the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Library
InfoPathways:
a self-paced tutorial enabling you to use the library
effectively. Items include: Library services and resources;
recognising and using citations; finding information through
the catalogue; researching essay topics; searching for
information on the world wide web.
Go direct to the UWA Library
Catalogue
There is a publication
Library services for postgraduate and honours
students. A new edition appears each year.
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Viruses, Worms and Trojans
Find out about computer viruses and other malware, and check
the veracity of virus warnings, at:
AusCERT, the national Computer Emergency Response Team for Australia.
Symantec
Corporation
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Philosophy Cafés
Those wanting to discuss ideas in an informal and non-academic
setting should try
Philosophy Cafés. These are casual discussions on topics of general interest, held in a café on a weekday evening, with a philosopher in attendance as facilitator.
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International Student Exchanges
The UWA Student
Exchange Programme makes it possible to study abroad for
one or two semesters while still gaining credit towards your
UWA degree.
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