Handbooks and course guides

Detailed information about all undergraduate courses in Philosophy

Philosophy handbook

Advancing through your degree

• Degree classification
• Year Abroad Information (223.44 KB PDF)

Assessment and feedback

• Philosophy Specific Marking Criteria
• Word Count and Late Penalties
• 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 2020/2021

Year 1

Morality and Value (186.52 KB PDF)

Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment (218.96 KB PDF)

Logic 1 (439.16 KB PDF)

Year 2

Mind, Matter and Language (777.66 KB PDF)

Knowledge and Reality (885.09 KB PDF)

Optional pre-honours course

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

Philosophy of Science 1 (736.05 KB PDF)

Years 3 and 4

Semester 1 course guides

Biomedical Ethics (163.85 KB PDF)

The Computational Mind (601.7 KB PDF)

Early Modern Philosophy (458.82 KB PDF)

Ethics (717.29 KB PDF)

Feminism (109.01 KB PDF)

Free Will and Moral Responsibility (565.39 KB PDF)

Hume's Philosophy of Religion (566.08 KB PDF)

Knowledge, Ignorance and Power (773.69 KB PDF)

Late Modern Philosophy (130.58 KB PDF)

Logic 2: Modal Logics (124.27 KB PDF)

Logic, Computability and Incompleteness (517.62 KB PDF)

Metaphysics (Philosophy of Time) (561.63 KB PDF)

Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty (532.06 KB PDF)

Philosophies of Decolonization (289.81 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Death and Dying (256.77 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Friendship (271.63 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Well-Being (148.65 KB PDF)

The Rationalists (1.04 MB PDF)

Self, Agency and the Will (781.72 KB PDF)

Themes in Epistemology (769.67 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of David Lewis (282.17 KB PDF)

Semester 2 course guides

Applied Ethics (141.9 KB PDF)

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (147.75 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Time Travel (808.9 KB PDF)

Islamic Philosophy (297.2 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (112.34 KB PDF)

Aesthetics (468.42 KB PDF)

Ancient Philosophy (155.88 KB PDF)

Philosophy and the Environment (697.43 KB PDF)

Epistemology and Evidence Law (143.75 KB PDF)

Indian Philosophy of Mind and Language (247.12 KB PDF)

John Locke (343.63 KB PDF)

Meta-ethics (227.86 KB PDF)

Puzzles and Paradoxes (72.53 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of Simone Weil (178.35 KB PDF)

Topics in Mind and Cognition (314.68 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Religion (492.8 KB PDF)

Political Philosophy (885.43 KB PDF)

The Subordinate Male: Racism, Gendercide, and Savagery in the 20th and 21st Century (356.28 KB PDF)

Philosophy: Fun and Games (798.17 KB PDF)

Full year course guides