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

Greats [PHIL 08016] (429.22 KB PDF)

Logic 1 [PHIL 08004] (170.89 KB PDF)

Morality and Value [PHIL 08015] (188.32 KB PDF)

Year 2

Knowledge and Reality [PHIL 08017] (229.87 KB PDF)

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 [PHIL 08005] (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 [PHIL 10133] (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

Advanced Topics in Philosophy [PHIL 10211] (72.59 KB PDF)

Ancient Philosophy [PHIL 10181] (206.95 KB PDF)

Ancient Theories of Mind [PHIL 10103] (1.26 MB PDF)

Applied Ethics [PHIL 10017] (146.46 KB PDF)

Ethics of Work and Labour [PHIL 10190] (182.44 KB PDF)

Free Will and Moral Responsibility [PHIL 10090] (145.38 KB PDF)

Indian Philosophy [PHIL 10196] (472.65 KB PDF)

Islamic Philosophy [PHIL 10197] (81.73 KB PDF)

Logic 2 [PHIL 10162] (130.28 KB PDF)

Moral Philosophy [PHIL 10213] (383.88 KB PDF)

Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty [PHIL 10158] (496.54 KB PDF)

Philosophy and the Environment [PHIL 10064] (265.75 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Action [PHIL 10209] (141.95 KB PDF)

Philosophy of David Lewis [PHIL 10184] (125.14 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Death and Dying [PHIL 10192] (201.56 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Information [PHIL 10186] (482.77 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Language [PHIL 10005] (133.55 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Social Science [PHIL 10201] (183.95 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Time Travel [PHIL 10125] (823.41 KB PDF)

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

Puzzles and Paradoxes [PHIL 10156] (68.1 KB PDF)

The Rationalists [PHIL 10086] (874.39 KB PDF)

The Subordinate Male [PHIL 10198] (362.37 KB PDF)

Topics in Mind and Cognition [PHIL 10174] (153.79 KB PDF)

Full year course guides

Philosophy Work [PHIL 10056] (157.06 KB PDF)