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 2018/19 (380.22 KB PDF)

Guidance for Joint Honours Students 2018/19 (319.12 KB PDF)

Philosophy Honours Course Information 2018/19 (277.78 KB PDF)

PPLS UG Technology Handbook 2018_19 (1.61 MB PDF)

Course guides 2018/19

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

Honours Course Information 2018/19 (278.63 KB PDF)

Semester 1 Course Guides

Political Philosophy 2018/19 (101.8 KB PDF)

Chinese Philosophy 2018/19 (544.43 KB PDF)

Early Modern Philosophy 2018/19 (108.5 KB PDF)

Knowledge, Ignorance and Power 2018/19 (118.41 KB PDF)

Metaphysics 2018/19 (92.27 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Well-Being 2018/19 (134.05 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Language 2018/19 (558.13 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Time Travel 2018/19 (154.02 KB PDF)

The Nature of Moral Understanding 2018/19 (199.43 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of Wittgenstein 2018/19 (208.59 KB PDF)

Themes in Epistemology 2018/19 (58.08 KB PDF)

Theories of Mind 2018/19 (60.46 KB PDF)

Philosophy: Fun and Games 2018/19 (130.21 KB PDF)

Meta-Ethics 2018/19 (117.64 KB PDF)

Kant 2018/19 (136.38 KB PDF)

The Philosophy of Fiction 2018/19 (101.46 KB PDF)

Free Will and Moral Responsibility 2018/19 (119.51 KB PDF)

Philosophy of Religion 2018/19 (114.66 KB PDF)

Late Modern Philosophy 2018/19 (36.03 KB PDF)

Feminism 2018/19 (71.2 KB PDF)

Full Year Course Guides

Philosophy Work (year abroad, MEL) 2018/19 (130.89 KB PDF)