Course Content
Year 1
- Beginning Philosophy
- Reason and Argument
- Ethics
- Knowledge and Perception
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Ancient Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- The First Year Project
Year 2
Core modules
You will take core modules which may include:
- Philosophy of Language
- Introduction to Language Acquisition
Option modules
You will take a selection of option modules, examples of which may include:
Linguistics
- Intermediate Phonetics and Phonology
- Intermediate Syntax
Philosophy
- Lived Experiences: Introduction to Phenomenology
- Feminist Philosophy
- Politics and Freedom: Anarchism and Conservatism
- Aesthetics
- Religious Ethics
- Ethical Theory
- Applied Ethics
- Hume’s Empiricism
- Nietzsche and Existentialism
Year 3
Linguistics
- Forensic Phonetics
- Psycholinguistics
- Formal Syntactic Theory
- Bilingualism
- Neurolinguistics: Language and the Brain
Some of these modules may require previous study in that area.
Philosophy
- Philosophy of Christianity
- Idolatry and Tradition: The Philosophy of Maimonides and Crescas
- Happiness, Utility and Wellbeing
- Mind and Morality
- Cognitive Anomalies, Decision-Making and Democracy
- Philosophy of Grief
- Property and Self-ownership
- Philosophy of Recognition
- Consciousness
- From Marx to Critical Theory
- Philosophy of Law
- Philosophy of Psychology
- German Idealism: Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy
- Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
- Foundations of Maths
- Philosophy of Physics
- Short dissertation
- Philosophy of Literature
- Buddhism as Philosophy
