Undergraduate courses
"The unexamined life", said Socrates, "is not worth living."
Philosophy involves a critical examination of our most fundamental beliefs about truth and reality, right and wrong. It challenges many of our assumptions about what we know and how we should live and focuses upon the ways in which different views of the world clash or fit together, and with how far different perspectives (moral, scientific, religious, metaphysical, personal) may be reconciled.It allows for extended reflection on and discussion of, in those immortal words, "life, the universe, and everything".
The Philosophy department runs two single honours degree courses:
Philosophy can also be studied as part of a joint honours course in combination with many other subjects, such as: Politics; English; History; Classical Studies; French; German; Italian; Psychology.
- BA Philosophy and Classical Studies
- BA Philosophy and English Literature
- BA Philosophy and French
- BA Philosophy and German
- BA Philosophy and International Relations
- BA Philosophy and Italian
- BA Philosophy and Politics
We offer a part-time degree course in Philosophy available for study during the daytime only, leading to a BA. This normally takes five years of study.
The part-time BA can be taken as a single honours degree, or combined with subjects such as: English Literature, Classical Studies, German, Latin, Greek, History, and Linguistics.