Handbooks and course guides

Detailed information about all undergraduate courses in Philosophy

Student Handbooks and Useful Information

The PPLS Student Handbook contains important information regarding plagiarism, referencing styles, marking Scheme, exams, coursework, requesting extensions and degree transfers.

PPLS Student Handbook 2017/18 (346.26 KB PDF)

UG Technology Handbook (1.66 MB PDF)

Philosophy Honours Courses 2017-18 (555.83 KB PDF)

Guidance to Philosophy for Joint Honours Students 2017/18 (353.98 KB PDF)

Taught Assessment Regulations (1.8 MB PDF)

Course guides 2017/18

Year 1

Morality and Value

Logic 1

Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment

Year 2

Mind, Matter and Language

Knowledge and Reality

Optional pre-honours course

This course may be taken in Year 1 or Year 2, but we recommend Year 2.

Philosophy of Science 1 

Years 3 and 4

Philosophy Semester 1 Hons Courses List 2017-18 (229.59 KB PDF)

Philosophy Semester 2 Hons Courses List 2017-18 (230.87 KB PDF)

Semester 1 Course Guides

Ancient Theories of Knowledge (372.35 KB PDF)

Belief, Desire and Rational Choice (97.32 KB PDF)

Feminism (395.5 KB PDF)

Kant (303.72 KB PDF)

Knowledge, Ignorance and Power (74.98 KB PDF)

Logic 2: Modal Logics (230.07 KB PDF)

Meta-Ethics (447.18 KB PDF)

Philosophy: Fun and Games (488.28 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Mathematics (679.01 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Time (499.99 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Well-Being (644.33 KB PDF)

Realism, Relativism and Reality (323.02 KB PDF)

Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment (250.67 KB PDF)

Political Philosophy (326.56 KB PDF)

The Computational Mind (477.91 KB PDF)

The Early Continentals:Hegel and Nietzsche (218.63 KB PDF)

The Nature of Moral Understanding (193.92 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of Wittgenstein (177.55 KB PDF)

Themes in Epistemology (510.41 KB PDF)

Theories of Mind (454.54 KB PDF)

Theory of Virtue (311.12 KB PDF)

Semester 2 Course Guides 

Ancient Aesthetics (25.43 KB PDF)

Ancient Ethics (21.92 KB PDF)

Ancient Theories of Existence (64.55 KB PDF)

Applied Ethics (117.41 KB PDF)

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (558.45 KB PDF)

Food for Thought: The Ethics of Food Choices (195.73 KB PDF)

Free Will and Moral Responsibility (486.62 KB PDF)

Freedom and the State: The Social Contract (130.52 KB PDF)

Logic, Computability and Incompleteness (96.79 KB PDF)

Perception and Action: From Inner Zombies to the Predictive Brain (99.22 KB PDF)

Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty (509.36 KB PDF)

Philosophical Issues in Evolution (47.47 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Law (221.64 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Religion (369.24 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Time Travel (183.51 KB PDF)

Puzzles and Paradoxes (61.74 KB PDF)

Science, Nature, and Social Values (379.58 KB PDF)

Self, Agency and the Will (332.13 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of Simone Weil (87.85 KB PDF)

The rationalists: Spinoza and Leibniz (45.77 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of Fiction (60.52 KB PDF)

Full Year Course Guide

Philosophy Work (Year Abroad, MEL) (487.25 KB PDF)