Handbooks and course guides

Detailed information about all undergraduate courses in Philosophy

Philosophy handbook

Advancing through your degree

• Year 1 Handout (336.18 KB PDF)
• Year 2 Handout (235.81 KB PDF)
• Honours Handout (159.05 KB PDF)
• Honours Course Choices 19/20 (455.41 KB PDF)
• Degree classification
• Year Abroad Information (239.37 KB PDF)

Assessment and feedback

• Philosophy Specific Marking Criteria
• Word Count and Late Penalties
• Plagiarism Guidance 19-20 (157.29 KB PDF)
• Plagiarism Summary (129.39 KB PDF)
• Feedback to students (513.04 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 Writing Centre
• Philosophy Skills Workshops
• Referencing (105.06 KB PDF)

Student feedback to Philosophy

• Feedback Mechanisms (122.8 KB PDF)
• Staff Student 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.

• PPLS Student Handbook 2019-20 (529.99 KB PDF)
• PPLS UG Technology Handbook 2019-20 (1.3 MB PDF)

Course guides 2019/2020

Year 1

• Morality and Value (2019/20) (411.35 KB PDF)
• Logic 1 (2019/20) (173.02 KB PDF)
• Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment (2019/20) (247.34 KB PDF)

Year 2

• Mind, Matter and Language (2019/20) (289.71 KB PDF)
• Knowledge and Reality (2019/20) (245.61 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 (2019/20) (174.77 KB PDF)

Years 3 and 4

Semester 1 course guides

Aesthetics 2019-20 (141.33 KB PDF)

Aristotle 2019-20 (211.23 KB PDF)

Early Modern Philosophy 2019-20 (191.21 KB PDF)

Environmental Ethics 2019-20 (182.88 KB PDF)

Feminism 2019-20 (491.12 KB PDF)

Free Will and Moral Responsibility 2019-20 (145.16 KB PDF)

Kant 2019-20 (66.54 KB PDF)

Knowledge, Ignorance and Power 2019-20 (163.76 KB PDF)

Late Modern Philosophy 2019-20 (206.07 KB PDF)

Logic 2: Modal Logics 2019-20 (99.55 KB PDF)

Logic, Computability and Incompleteness 2019-20 (223.57 KB PDF)

Meta-Ethics 2019-20 (85.58 KB PDF)

Metaphysics 2019-20 (238.13 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Well-Being 2019-20 (184.04 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Language 2019-20 (234.97 KB PDF)

Self, Agency and the Will 2019-20 (211.75 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of David Lewis 2019-20 (184.26 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of Fiction 2019-20 (362.12 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of Simone Weil 2019-20 (175.34 KB PDF)

The Rationalists Course Guide 2019-20 (203.38 KB PDF)

Topics in Mind and Cognition 2019-20 (90.77 KB PDF)

Topics in the Philosophy of Gender and Race 2019-20 (413.14 KB PDF)

Semester 2 course guides

Advanced Topics in Metaphysics 2019-20 (74.98 KB PDF)

Ancient Aesthetics 2019-20 (165.28 KB PDF)

Ancient Philosophy 2019-20 (254.84 KB PDF)

Applied Ethics 2019-20 (1.04 MB PDF)

Belief, Desire and Rational Choice 2019-20 (110.25 KB PDF)

Epistemology and Evidence Law 2019-20 (161.25 KB PDF)

Ethics 2019-20 (198.79 KB PDF)

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (985.06 KB PDF)

Food for Thought: The Ethics of Food Choices 2019-20 (301.28 KB PDF)

Freedom and the State: The Social Contract 2019-20 (108.93 KB PDF)

Objectification, Dehumanisation, and Othering 2019-20 (96.62 KB PDF)

Philosophy and the Environment 2019-20 (168.89 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Information 2019-20 (80.48 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Law 2019-20 (177.3 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Religion 2019-20 (119.38 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Science (Honours) 2019-20 (95.68 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Time Travel 2019-20 (298.96 KB PDF)

Philosophy: Fun and Games 2019-20 (310.93 KB PDF)

Political Philosophy 2019-20 (91.48 KB PDF)

Puzzles and Paradoxes 2019-20 (68.1 KB PDF)

Social Cognition 2019-20 (196.64 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of Wittgenstein 2019-20 (87.76 KB PDF)

Themes in Epistemology 2019-20 (357.87 KB PDF)

Theories of Mind 2019-20 (244.51 KB PDF)

Theory of Virtue 2019-20 (129.34 KB PDF)

Full year course guides

Philosophy Work (year abroad, MEL) 2018/19 (171.66 KB PDF)