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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
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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