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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2020/2021

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Degree Programme Table: Philosophy (MA Hons) (UTPHILY)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Morality and Value
PHIL08015 20 credits
Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment
PHIL08016 20 credits
Logic 1
PHIL08004 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Philosophy of Science 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Philosophy of Science 1
PHIL08005 20 credits
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
Notes:
It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you choose outside courses in first year that follow on into second year, so that there is the possibility of an alternative degree programme at the end of second year. An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.
OR

Group B

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select exactly 60 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
Notes:
It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you choose outside courses in first year that follow on into second year, so that there is the possibility of an alternative degree programme at the end of second year. An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

Year 2 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Mind, Matter and Language

Must be passed 1st time

PHIL08014 20 credits
Knowledge and Reality

Must be passed 1st time

PHIL08017 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select exactly 60 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
Notes:
It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you choose outside courses in second year that follow on from first year, so that there is the possibility of an alternative degree programme at the end of second year. An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

AND

Philosophy of Science 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Philosophy of Science 1
PHIL08005 20 credits
OR

Group B

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select exactly 80 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
Notes:
It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you choose outside courses in second year that follow on from first year, so that there is the possibility of an alternative degree programme at the end of second year. An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

Year 3 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: August

Notes:
Progression to Honours requires (1) an *average* of 50% across both the mandatory Philosophy courses standardly taken in the second year, Mind, Matter and Language (MML) and Knowledge and Reality (K&R) achieved at the first attempt and (2) a minimum of 40% in each course (MML and K&R) achieved at the first attempt

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Philosophy Dissertation Preparation Course
PHIL10151 0 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 120 credits in this group.

Year 3 Philosophy - Language, Cognition, and Science

Select between 20 and 60 credits of the following courses
Logic 2: Modal Logics
PHIL10162 20 credits
Topics in Mind and Cognition
PHIL10174 20 credits
AND

Year 3 Philosophy - History of Philosophy

Select between 20 and 60 credits of the following courses
Late Modern Philosophy
PHIL10175 20 credits
Ancient Philosophy
PHIL10181 20 credits
Early Modern Philosophy
PHIL10182 20 credits
AND

Year 3 Philosophy - Knowledge and Reality

Select between 20 and 60 credits of the following courses
Philosophy of Religion
PHIL10007 20 credits
Themes in Epistemology
PHIL10072 20 credits
Metaphysics
PHIL10155 20 credits
AND

Year 3 Philosophy- Morality and Value

Select between 20 and 60 credits of the following courses
Applied Ethics
PHIL10017 20 credits
Feminism
PHIL10022 20 credits
Political Philosophy
PHIL10093 20 credits
Aesthetics
PHIL10117 20 credits
Ethics
PHIL10178 20 credits
AND

Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 20 credits from Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
You should only choose a non-philosophy course if it has been agreed with your Personal Tutor and the course organiser of the course you are interested in taking.

Year 4 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: August

Notes:
The Philosophy dissertation MUST be taken in Final Year. Students can either do a single long 8000 word dissertation, or two 5000 word essays ( short dissertations).

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Dissertation in Philosophy

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
The Philosophy dissertation MUST be taken in Final Year. Students can either do a single long 8000 word dissertation, or two 5000 word essays ( short dissertations).
If the two 5000 word essays are selected students should choose two courses from Philosophy Honours Programme Collection, Philosophy Honours Year 4, as available.


Dissertation in Philosophy
PHIL10026 40 credits
OR

Philosophy Honours Year 4

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Stoic Philosophy at Rome
CLTR10026 20 credits
The Philosophy of Wittgenstein
PHIL10014 20 credits
Meta-Ethics
PHIL10019 20 credits
Philosophy and the Environment
PHIL10064 20 credits
Self, Agency and the Will
PHIL10082 20 credits
The rationalists: Spinoza and Leibniz
PHIL10086 20 credits
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
PHIL10090 20 credits
Philosophy of Time Travel
PHIL10125 20 credits
Aristotle
PHIL10130 20 credits
Logic, Computability and Incompleteness
PHIL10133 20 credits
The Computational Mind
PHIL10134 20 credits
Philosophy: Fun and Games
PHIL10143 20 credits
Philosophy of Well-Being
PHIL10152 20 credits
Puzzles and Paradoxes
PHIL10156 20 credits
Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty
PHIL10158 20 credits
Knowledge, Ignorance and Power
PHIL10160 20 credits
The Philosophy of Simone Weil
PHIL10161 20 credits
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
PHIL10167 20 credits
The Philosophy of David Lewis
PHIL10184 20 credits
Epistemology and Evidence Law
PHIL10185 20 credits
Philosophies of Decolonization: Anti-Humanism and Further Explorations in the Construction of Racial Others
PHIL10188 20 credits
John Locke
PHIL10189 20 credits
Biomedical ethics
PHIL10191 20 credits
Philosophy of Death and Dying
PHIL10192 20 credits
Philosophy of Friendship
PHIL10195 20 credits
Indian Philosophies of Mind and Language
PHIL10196 20 credits
Islamic Philosophy
PHIL10197 20 credits
The Subordinate Male: Racism, Gendercide, and Savagery in the 20th and 21st Century
PHIL10198 20 credits
Hume's Philosophy of Religion
PHIL10199 20 credits
The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
PHIL10200 20 credits
AND

Group B

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Philosophy Honours Year 4

Select exactly 80 credits of the following courses
Stoic Philosophy at Rome
CLTR10026 20 credits
The Philosophy of Wittgenstein
PHIL10014 20 credits
Meta-Ethics
PHIL10019 20 credits
Philosophy and the Environment
PHIL10064 20 credits
Self, Agency and the Will
PHIL10082 20 credits
The rationalists: Spinoza and Leibniz
PHIL10086 20 credits
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
PHIL10090 20 credits
Philosophy of Time Travel
PHIL10125 20 credits
Aristotle
PHIL10130 20 credits
Logic, Computability and Incompleteness
PHIL10133 20 credits
The Computational Mind
PHIL10134 20 credits
Philosophy: Fun and Games
PHIL10143 20 credits
Philosophy of Well-Being
PHIL10152 20 credits
Puzzles and Paradoxes
PHIL10156 20 credits
Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty
PHIL10158 20 credits
Knowledge, Ignorance and Power
PHIL10160 20 credits
The Philosophy of Simone Weil
PHIL10161 20 credits
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
PHIL10167 20 credits
The Philosophy of David Lewis
PHIL10184 20 credits
Epistemology and Evidence Law
PHIL10185 20 credits
Philosophies of Decolonization: Anti-Humanism and Further Explorations in the Construction of Racial Others
PHIL10188 20 credits
John Locke
PHIL10189 20 credits
Biomedical ethics
PHIL10191 20 credits
Philosophy of Death and Dying
PHIL10192 20 credits
Philosophy of Friendship
PHIL10195 20 credits
Indian Philosophies of Mind and Language
PHIL10196 20 credits
Islamic Philosophy
PHIL10197 20 credits
The Subordinate Male: Racism, Gendercide, and Savagery in the 20th and 21st Century
PHIL10198 20 credits
Hume's Philosophy of Religion
PHIL10199 20 credits
The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
PHIL10200 20 credits
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