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BA Philosophy and Law First year


Constitutional Law Contract Law


Introduction to Philosophy Death, God and the Meaning of Life or The Enlightenment or one first-year option


Second year Tort Law


Equity and Trusts Conceptual Foundations of Modernity* or one philosophy option Ethics* or Philosophy and Rights or one philosophy option


Third year Criminal Law Jurisprudence* or one law option


Joint Seminar in Philosophy and Law


One philosophy option


BA Philosophy and Politics


First year


Introduction to Philosophy Introduction to Politics


BA Philosophy and Literature


First year The Enlightenment Introduction to Philosophy Introduction to Literature Death, God and the Meaning of Life or one first-year option


Second year Two literature options from: Early Modern Literature Versions of Modernity US Literature since 1850 Approaches to Text Conceptual Foundations of Modernity* or one philosophy option


Philosophy and Literature


Third year Two literature options Two philosophy options


Death, God and the Meaning of Life or one first-year option


One first-year option


Second year Conceptual Foundations of Modernity* or one philosophy option Ethics* or one philosophy option


Introduction to Political Theory


One politics option Third year


Contemporary Political Philosophy


One philosophy option Two politics options


BA Philosophy and Sociology


First year


Introduction to Philosophy Sociology and the Modern World


Death, God and the Meaning of Life or one first-year option


One first-year option


Second year Conceptual Foundations of Modernity* or one philosophy option


Continuity and Controversy in Sociology Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy


One sociology option One philosophy half-option


Third year


Current Disputes in Sociology


Two philosophy options One philosophy or sociology option


* Recommended option(s)


You can often take two philosophy half-options in place of one full option.


This information is a guide to course content and is subject to review on an annual basis.


and good God on the grounds of the existence of evil in our world will be discussed. For how can there be such a God, given the appalling evils we suffer, both natural and human? The topics covered may vary from year to year.


Psychoanalysis, Symbolism and the Unconscious – Sigmund Freud believed that phenomena such as dreams and neurotic symptoms, often dismissed as meaningless, could be understood as symbolic products of the unconscious. He also argued that this theory could be applied to myths, fairytales, and other cultural phenomena. In this module, Freud’s views are compared with the theories of symbolism proposed by his contemporary, the Neo-Kantian


philosopher Ernst Cassirer, and by other subsequent psychoanalytic thinkers.


Philosophy and Medical Ethics – This module seeks to make you self-conscious about patterns of argument that occur in moral debates about medical matters, through the use of two cases involving the taking and saving of life; the role of consequences, rights and virtues in ethical life; the nature of moral dilemmas; the doctrines of acts and omissions and of double effect. It also explores issues concerning reproduction, organ transplantation, justice and responsibility.


Philosophy Dissertation – The dissertation, which can be taken in either the autumn or spring term of the final year,


allows you to write your first supervised piece of research on a topic which you will have chosen yourself, based on one of your earlier modules. The length of the dissertation is 5,000-6,000 words.


How will I be taught


and assessed? Teaching takes the form of lectures and discussion classes. In the second and third years, these are often combined into what we call a ‘lecture/seminar’. This format allows the lecturer to explain new arguments and ideas, while giving sufficient time for questions and collective discussion and debate. We believe that


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