Handbooks and course guides

Detailed information about all undergraduate courses in Philosophy

Philosophy handbook

Advancing through your degree

• Degree classification
• Year Abroad Information (215.43 KB PDF)
• Year Abroad Information - Philosophy and MEL students (94.27 KB PDF)

Assessment and feedback

• Philosophy Specific Marking Criteria
• Word limit and lateness penalties (33.89 KB PDF)
• Plagiarism Guidance 20-21 (775.35 KB PDF)
• Plagiarism Summary (129.39 KB PDF)
• Feedback to students (70.63 KB PDF)
• Philosophy Marking Practices (Moderation, Double Marking, and External Examining) (72.46 KB PDF)

Academic support

• Writing a Philosophy Paper (167.72 KB PDF)
• Common Mistakes in Writing a Philosophy Paper
• PPLS Skills Centre
• Referencing (71.85 KB PDF)

Student feedback to Philosophy

• Student feedback
• Student-Staff Liaison Committee

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.

Course guides 2021/2022

Year 1

Morality and Value (188.32 KB PDF)

Year 2

Mind, Matter and Language (713.92 KB PDF)

Optional pre-honours course

This course may be taken in Year 1 or Year 2.

Philosophy of Science 1 (741.9 KB PDF)

Years 3 and 4

Semester 1 course guides

Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy [PHIL 10214] (85.59 KB PDF)

Aristotle [PHIL 10130] (308.88 KB PDF)

The Computational Mind [PHIL 10134/PHIL 11115] (242.7 KB PDF)

Early Modern Philosophy [PHIL 10182] (149.47 KB PDF)

Epistemology and Evidence Law [PHIL 10185] (161.21 KB PDF)

The Ethnologists [PHIL 10206] (424.21 KB PDF)

Feminist Philosophy [PHIL 10214] (107.61 KB PDF)

Freedom, Consent and Political Obligation [PHIL 10176] (196.57 KB PDF)

Hume's Philosophy of Religion [PHIL 10199] (115.88 KB PDF)

John Locke [PHIL 10189] (169.29 KB PDF)

Knowledge, Ignorance and Power [PHIL 10160] (152.2 KB PDF)

Late Modern Philosophy [PHIL 10175] (130.41 KB PDF)

Logic, Computability and Incompleteness [PHIL10133] (517.32 KB PDF)

Meaning and Fulfilment [PHIL 10212] (453.17 KB PDF)

Metaethics [PHIL 10019] (632.97 KB PDF)

Metaphysics (Philosophy of Time) (PHIL 10155) (254.29 KB PDF)

Normative Theory [PHIL 10078] (213.48 KB PDF)

Philosophy: Fun and Games [PHIL 10143] (317.68 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Economics [PHIL 10207] (2.05 MB PDF)

Philosophy of Friendship [PHIL 10195] (275.72 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Religion [PHIL 10007] (140.14 KB PDF)

Political Philosophy [PHIL 10093] (854.65 KB PDF)

Self, Agency and the Will [PHIL 10082] (252.11 KB PDF)

Themes in Epistemology [PHIL 10072] (766.53 KB PDF)

Semester 2 course guides

Philosophy, Science and Policy [PHIL 10208] (208.62 KB PDF)

Full year course guides

Philosophy Work [PHIL 10056] (157.06 KB PDF)