THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027

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Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

Students who do not pass Logic before progressing to Honours may apply to transfer to the MA Theology.

Compulsory courses

Morality and Value

Must be passed

Logic 1

Must be passed

Introduction to the History of Philosophy A

Must be passed

Theology and Religious Studies Foundation Seminar

Course options

Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding

The Bible in Literature

Buddhism in Global Contexts

Introducing Biblical Hebrew

Introducing New Testament Greek

Paul and His Letters

Jesus and the Gospels

Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

Studying Religions

Global Indigenous Religions

Jews and Muslims: Religions, Cultures, Histories

Christian Theology: Approaches and Themes

Ethics and Society

Christian Theology: Doctrines and Debates

The God(s) of the Philosophers: Proposals and Problems

Intermediate Biblical Hebrew

Intermediate New Testament Greek

Introducing Sanskrit

Intermediate Sanskrit

Patriarchs, Prophets and Poets: History, Theology and Literature of the Hebrew Bible

Morality through the Social Sciences

Introducing Classical Tibetan

AND

Students can take further courses from the School of Divinity, or choose courses from other Schools.

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

In order to progress into Year 3 of this programme, you must:

- Pass both Mind, Matter and Language (MML) and Knowledge and Reality (K&R) with a mark of 40% or above and;
- Achieve an average of 50% across both MML and K&R.

Compulsory courses

Mind, Matter and Language

Must be passed

Knowledge and Reality

Must be passed

Course options

AND

An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

Students CANNOT take Introduction to the History of Philosophy A (PHIL08019) if they have already taken Introduction to the History of Philosophy (PHIL08018).

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

During Year 3 students must prepare for their dissertation. Further information about this will be provided.

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

Course options

AND

Philosophy of Religion

Metaphysics

Logic 2: Modal Logics

Topics in Mind and Cognition

Late Modern Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy

Early Modern Philosophy

Philosophy of Time

Philosophy of Technology

AND

Applied Ethics

Normative theory

Political Philosophy

Aesthetics

Social Philosophy

Moral Philosophy

Feminist Philosophy

Philosophy of Technology

AND

Political Philosophy

Late Modern Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy

Early Modern Philosophy

Japanese Philosophy

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Students MUST pass DIVI10001 Theology & Religious Studies: Final Dissertation or PHIL10026 Dissertation in Philosophy in order to be awarded an honours degree.

Please be aware that, unlike single honours Philosophy students, all joint honours Philosophy and Theology students must take the full-length Dissertation in either Philosophy or Theology and Religious Studies.

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

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

Theology and Religious Studies: Final Dissertation

Dissertation in Philosophy

AND

AND

Meta-Ethics

Moral Psychology

Philosophy and the Environment

Self, Agency and the Will

Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Ancient Theories of Mind

Philosophy of Time Travel

Logic, Computability and Incompleteness

Philosophy: Fun and Games

Puzzles and Paradoxes

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Epistemology and Evidence Law

Philosophies of Decolonization: Anti-Humanism and Further Explorations in the Construction of Racial Others

Philosophy of Friendship

Islamic Philosophy

The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre

Meaning and Fulfilment

Radical Black Philosophies of Race and Racism

Philosophy of Risk

Buddhist Philosophy

Consciousness, Life and Mind

Epistemic Injustice

Work, Justice, and Freedom: Simone Weil

Mind, World, and Language: Wittgenstein

Anti-colonial approaches to Cognitive Science

God and gods in ancient philosophy

Philosophy of Music

Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex

Topics in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

The Birth of Modern Ethics

Topics in Aesthetics

Topics in Feminist Philosophy

Readings in Ancient Philosophy

Information, Control, Society

Imperial Feminisms: The Anti-Colonial Examination of Gender and white Womanhood from the 19th Century to Present

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