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Philosophy

SCQF Level 07 (1 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PHIL07002 SS1 Introducing Philosophy (Credit Plus) Lifelong Learning - Session 1 10

SCQF Level 08 (6 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PHIL08016 SV1 Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment Semester 2 20
PHIL08017 SV1 Knowledge and Reality Semester 2 20
PHIL08004 SV1 Logic 1 Semester 2 20
PHIL08014 SV1 Mind, Matter and Language Semester 1 20
PHIL08015 SV1 Morality and Value Semester 1 20
PHIL08005 SV1 Philosophy of Science 1 Semester 1 20

SCQF Level 10 (92 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PHIL10180 SS1 Advanced Topics in Metaphysics Semester 2 20
PHIL10117 SV1 Aesthetics Semester 1 20
PHIL10117VV1 Aesthetics Semester 1 20
PHIL10114 SS1 Ancient Aesthetics Semester 2 20
PHIL10101 Ancient Ethics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10181 SV1 Ancient Philosophy Semester 2 20
PHIL10181VV1 Ancient Philosophy Semester 2 20
PHIL10049 Ancient Theories of Existence Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10168 Ancient Theories of Knowledge Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10103 Ancient Theories of Mind Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10017 SV1 Applied Ethics Semester 2 20
PHIL10017VV1 Applied Ethics Semester 2 20
PHIL10130 SS1 Aristotle Semester 1 20
PHIL10159 SS1 Belief, Desire and Rational Choice Semester 2 20
PHIL10111 British Idealism and Immaterialism Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10179 Chinese Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10154 Conditionals Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10026 SS1 Dissertation in Philosophy Full Year 40
PHIL10182 SV1 Early Modern Philosophy Semester 1 20
PHIL10182VV1 Early Modern Philosophy Semester 1 20
PHIL10147 SS1 Environmental Ethics Semester 1 20
PHIL10185 SS1 Epistemology and Evidence Law Semester 2 20
PHIL10145 Epistemology in the Early Modern World Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10178 SV1 Ethics Semester 2 20
PHIL10178VV1 Ethics Semester 2 20
PHIL10167 SS1 Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Semester 2 20
PHIL10022 SV1 Feminism Semester 1 20
PHIL10022VV1 Feminism Semester 1 20
PHIL10163 SS1 Food for Thought: The Ethics of Food Choices Semester 2 20
PHIL10140 Formal Methods in Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10137 Formal Semantics for Philosophers Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10090 SS1 Free Will and Moral Responsibility Semester 1 20
PHIL10126 Free Will and Moral Responsibility (Semester Two) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10170 SS1 Freedom and the State: The Social Contract Semester 2 20
PHIL10176 Freedom, Consent and Political Obligation Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10116 History of Analytic Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10067 History of Modern Philosophy Texts (British) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10142 History of Modern Philosophy Texts (European) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10169 SS1 Kant Semester 1 20
PHIL10157 Kant's Critical Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10160 SS1 Knowledge, Ignorance and Power Semester 1 20
PHIL10175 SV1 Late Modern Philosophy Semester 1 20
PHIL10175VV1 Late Modern Philosophy Semester 1 20
PHIL10162 SV1 Logic 2: Modal Logics Semester 1 20
PHIL10162VV1 Logic 2: Modal Logics Semester 1 20
PHIL10133 SV1 Logic, Computability and Incompleteness Semester 1 20
PHIL10019 SS1 Meta-Ethics Semester 1 20
PHIL10164 Metaphysical and Epistemological Issues in Feminism Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10155 SV1 Metaphysics Semester 1 20
PHIL10155VV1 Metaphysics Semester 1 20
PHIL10077 Metaphysics of Mind Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10023 Moral Psychology Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10078 Normative theory Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10183 SS1 Objectification, Dehumanisation, and Othering Semester 2 20
PHIL10148 Perception and Action: From Inner Zombies to the Predictive Brain Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10158 Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10106 Philosophical Issues in Evolution Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10151 SS1 Philosophy Dissertation Preparation Course Full Year 0
PHIL10056 SS1 Philosophy Work (Year Abroad, MEL) Flexible 40
PHIL10064 SS1 Philosophy and the Environment Semester 2 20
PHIL10186 SS1 Philosophy of Information Semester 2 20
PHIL10005 SV1 Philosophy of Language Semester 1 20
PHIL10005VV1 Philosophy of Language Semester 1 20
PHIL10166 SS1 Philosophy of Law Semester 2 20
PHIL10052 Philosophy of Mathematics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10173 Philosophy of Psychiatry Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10081 Philosophy of Psychology Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10007 SV1 Philosophy of Religion Semester 2 20
PHIL10007VV1 Philosophy of Religion Semester 2 20
PHIL10149 SV1 Philosophy of Science (Honours) Semester 2 20
PHIL10149VV1 Philosophy of Science (Honours) Semester 2 20
PHIL10144 Philosophy of Time (S1) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10125 SS1 Philosophy of Time Travel Semester 2 20
PHIL10127 Philosophy of Time Travel ( S1) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10152 SS1 Philosophy of Well-Being Semester 1 20
PHIL10115 Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10143 SS1 Philosophy: Fun and Games Semester 2 20
PHIL10093 SV1 Political Philosophy Semester 2 20
PHIL10093VV1 Political Philosophy Semester 2 20
PHIL10156 SS1 Puzzles and Paradoxes Semester 2 20
PHIL10138 Realism, relativism, and reality Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10150 Reason and Experience: 17th Century Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10139 Scepticism Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10171 Science, Nature, and Social Values Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10082 SS1 Self, Agency and the Will Semester 1 20
PHIL10131 SS1 Social Cognition Semester 2 20
PHIL10187 Special Study in Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10134 The Computational Mind Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10047 The Early Continentals: Hegel and Nietzsche Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10099 The Nature of Moral Understanding Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10146 The Philosophy of David Hume Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10184 SS1 The Philosophy of David Lewis Semester 1 20
PHIL10153 SS1 The Philosophy of Fiction Semester 1 20
PHIL10161 SS1 The Philosophy of Simone Weil Semester 1 20
PHIL10014 SS1 The Philosophy of Wittgenstein Semester 2 20
PHIL10112 The Structure of Being Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10086 SS1 The rationalists: Spinoza and Leibniz Semester 1 20
PHIL10072 SV1 Themes in Epistemology Semester 2 20
PHIL10072VV1 Themes in Epistemology Semester 2 20
PHIL10024 SV1 Theories of Mind (Philosophy Hons) Semester 2 20
PHIL10165 SS1 Theory of Virtue Semester 2 20
PHIL10120 Topics in Ancient Cosmology Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10062 Topics in Hellenistic Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10174 SV1 Topics in Mind and Cognition Semester 1 20
PHIL10174VV1 Topics in Mind and Cognition Semester 1 20
PHIL10172 SS1 Topics in the Philosophy of Gender and Race Semester 1 20
HIST10257 SV1 Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx Semester 2 20

SCQF Level 11 (111 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PHIL11136 SS1 Advanced Epistemology (Online) Semester 2 20
PHIL11134 SS1 Advanced Ethics (Online) Semester 2 20
PHIL11135 SS1 Advanced Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science (Online) Semester 2 20
PHIL11183 SV1 Advanced Topics in Metaphysics Semester 2 20
PHIL11038 SS1 Advanced topics in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition Semester 2 20
PHIL11029 Aesthetics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11090 SS1 Ancient Aesthetics MSc Semester 2 20
PHIL11092 Ancient Ethics MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11016 Ancient Philosophy (survey) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11052 SS1 Ancient Philosophy Dissertation (MSc/Dip) Full Year 60
PHIL11106 SS1 Ancient Philosophy Seminar I Semester 2 20
PHIL11107 Ancient Philosophy Seminar II Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11054 Ancient Theories of Existence (MSc) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11173 Ancient Theories of Knowledge MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11070 Ancient Theories of Mind MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11105 Applied Ethics MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11108 SS1 Aristotle MSc Semester 1 20
PHIL11158 Belief, Desire and Rational Choice MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11085 British Idealism and Immaterialism MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11146 SS1 CogLab 1: Seminars in Contemporary Cognitive Science Semester 1 10
PHIL11147 SS1 CogLab 2: Seminars in Contemporary Cognitive Science Semester 2 10
PHIL11180 Contemporary Debates in Epistemology I Not delivered this year 10
PHIL11181 Contemporary Debates in Epistemology II Not delivered this year 10
PHIL11184 SV1 Contemporary Debates in Ethics I Semester 2 10
PHIL11184 SV2 Contemporary Debates in Ethics I Semester 2 10
PHIL11185 Contemporary Debates in History of Philosophy I Not delivered this year 10
PHIL11193 Contemporary Debates in Logic and Language I Not delivered this year 10
PHIL11036 SV1 Dissertation (MScR, Philosophy) Full Year 180
PHIL11138 SS1 Dissertation MSc Epistemology, Ethics and Mind (Online) Full Year 60
PHIL11179 SS1 Dissertation MSc Philosophy, Science and Religion (Online) Full Year 60
PHIL11104 SS1 Dissertation Mind, Language & Embodied Cognition (MSc Dip) Full Year 60
PHIL11040 SV1 Dissertation with Coursework (MScR, Philosophy) Full Year 140
PHIL11157 SS1 Dissertation: Part-Time MSc Epistemology, Ethics and Mind (Online) Flexible 60
PHIL11178 SS1 Dissertation: Part-Time MSc Philosophy, Science and Religion (Online) Flexible 60
PHIL11124 Environmental Ethics MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11131 SS1 Epistemology (Online) Semester 1 20
PHIL11195 SV1 Epistemology and Evidence Law Semester 2 20
PHIL11127 Epistemology in the Early Modern World MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11182 SV1 Ethics Semester 1 20
PHIL11186 SV1 Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Semester 2 20
PHIL11027 SS1 Feminism Semester 2 20
PHIL11163 Food for Thought: The Ethics of Food Choices MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11119 Formal Methods in Philosophy MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11118 Formal Semantics for Philosophers MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11067 Free Will and Moral Responsibility MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11170 SS1 Freedom and the State: The Social Contract MSc Semester 2 20
PHIL11194 Freedom, Consent and Political Obligation Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11187 SV1 Further Topics in Normative Ethics Semester 1 20
PHIL11188 Further Topics in Political Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11097 History of Analytic Philosophy MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11050 History of Modern Philosophy Texts (British) MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11077 History of Modern Philosophy Texts (European) MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11037 SS1 Introduction to Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition Semester 1 20
PHIL11168 SS1 Kant MSc Semester 1 20
PHIL11114 SS1 Logic, Computability and Incompleteness Semester 1 20
PHIL11043 Meta-Ethics (MSc) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11165 Metaphysical and Epistemological Issues in Feminism MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11156 Metaphysics MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11066 Metaphysics of Mind MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11113 Mind and Body in Early Modern Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11164 Modal Logics MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11062 Normative Theory MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11126 Perception and Action: From Inner Zombies to the Predictive Brain MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11153 Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11083 Philosophical Issues in Evolution MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11191 SV1 Philosophical Methods I Semester 1 20
PHIL11192 SV1 Philosophical Methods II Semester 2 20
PHIL11001 SV1 Philosophy Dissertation (MSc Dip) Full Year 60
PHIL11048 SV1 Philosophy and the Environment MSc Semester 2 20
PHIL11022 SS1 Philosophy of Language Semester 1 20
PHIL11056 Philosophy of Law MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11189 Philosophy of Linguistics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11045 Philosophy of Mathematics MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11130 SS1 Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (Online) Semester 1 20
PHIL11190 Philosophy of Psychiatry Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11089 Philosophy of Psychology MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11026 Philosophy of Religion Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11159 SS1 Philosophy of Religion (Online) Semester 1 20
PHIL11133 SS1 Philosophy of Science (Online) Semester 2 20
PHIL11141 Philosophy of Science MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11174 Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates I Not delivered this year 10
PHIL11175 Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates II Not delivered this year 10
PHIL11081 Philosophy of Time MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11128 Philosophy of Time MSc (Semester 1) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11101 SS1 Philosophy of Time Travel MSc Semester 2 20
PHIL11103 Philosophy of Time Travel MSc (Semester 1) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11155 Philosophy of Well-Being MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11100 Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11160 SV1 Philosophy, Science and Religion 1: The Physical World (Online) Semester 1 20
PHIL11055 Political Philosophy MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11150 Puzzles & Paradoxes MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11120 Realism, Relativism, and Reality MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11142 Reason and Experience: Seventeenth Century Philosophy MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11117 Scepticism MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11169 Science, Nature and Social Values MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11088 SV1 Self, Agency and the Will MSc Semester 1 20
PHIL11111 Social Cognition MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11115 The Computational Mind MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11122 The Early Continentals: Hegel and Nietzsche MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11068 The Nature of Moral Understanding MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11125 The Philosophy of David Hume MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11148 The Philosophy of Fiction MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11162 SV1 The Philosophy of Simone Weil MSc Semester 1 20
PHIL11020 The Philosophy of Wittgenstein Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11075 SV1 The Rationalists: Spinoza and Leibniz MSc Semester 1 20
PHIL11145 The Structure of Being MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11064 SS1 Themes in Epistemology MSc Semester 1 20
PHIL11021 SS1 Theories of Mind (Philosophy MSc) Semester 2 20
PHIL11161 Theory of Virtue MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11047 Topics in Hellenistic Philosophy MSc Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11181 Epicurus and Epicureanism Not delivered this year 20
THET11046 SV1 Philosophy, Science and Religion 2: Life and Mind (online) Semester 2 20

SCQF Level 12 (1 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PHIL12001 SS1 PhD Philosophy Proseminar Full Year 0
Key
Available to all students - SV
Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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