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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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Philosophy

SCQF Level 07 (1 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PHIL07002 Introducing Philosophy (Credit Plus) Not delivered this year 10

SCQF Level 08 (7 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PHIL08019 SV1 Introduction to the History of Philosophy A Semester 2 20
PHIL08020 SV1 Introduction to the History of Philosophy B Semester 2 20
PHIL08017 SV1 Knowledge and Reality Semester 2 20
PHIL08004 Logic 1 Not delivered this year 20
PHIL08014 SV1 Mind, Matter and Language Semester 1 20
PHIL08015 SV1 Morality and Value Semester 1 20
PHIL08005 SV1 Philosophy of Science 1 Semester 1 20

SCQF Level 10 (112 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PHIL10227 Advanced Topics in Aesthetics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10217 Advanced Topics in Early Modern Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10210 Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10233 Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy (Semester 1) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10180 Advanced Topics in Metaphysics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10211 Advanced Topics in Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10218 SV1 Advanced Topics in Political Philosophy Semester 2 20
PHIL10117 Aesthetics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10235 Algorithmic Bias Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10181 Ancient Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10103 Ancient Theories of Mind Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10017 Applied Ethics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10130 Aristotle Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10205 Aristotle's Ethics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10244 SV1 Banned Books and Dangerous Ideas in Early Modern Philosophy Semester 2 20
PHIL10159 Belief, Desire and Rational Choice Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10191 SV1 Biomedical ethics Semester 2 20
PHIL10229 Buddhist Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10179 Chinese Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10238 Consciousness, Life and Mind Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10223 Continental Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10236 Decolonising Ethics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10026 SS1 Dissertation in Philosophy Full Year 40
PHIL10182 SV1 Early Modern Philosophy Semester 1 20
PHIL10147 SV1 Environmental Ethics Semester 1 20
PHIL10249 SV1 Epistemic Injustice Semester 1 20
PHIL10185 Epistemology and Evidence Law Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10178 Ethics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10167 Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10190 Ethics of Work and Labour Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10214 Feminist Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10090 Free Will and Moral Responsibility Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10176 Freedom, Consent and Political Obligation Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10237 SS1 Gender and Beauty Semester 1 20
PHIL10248 SV1 Hegel's Phenomenology Semester 1 20
PHIL10196 Indian Philosophies of Mind and Language Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10197 SS1 Islamic Philosophy Semester 1 20
PHIL10222 Japanese Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10189 John Locke Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10169 SV1 Kant Semester 1 20
PHIL10232 Knowledge in a Multicultural World Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10160 Knowledge, Ignorance and Power Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10175 Late Modern Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10162 Logic 2: Modal Logics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10133 SS1 Logic, Computability and Incompleteness Semester 2 20
PHIL10247 SV1 Me, Myself, and Other (Less Important) Subjects Semester 2 20
PHIL10212 Meaning and Fulfilment Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10239 Measurement Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10019 Meta-Ethics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10155 Metaphysics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10251 SV1 Mind, World, and Language: Wittgenstein Semester 2 20
PHIL10213 SV1 Moral Philosophy Semester 2 20
PHIL10023 Moral Psychology Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10078 Normative theory Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10183 Objectification, Dehumanisation, and Othering Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10224 Phenomenology Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10220 Philosophical Naturalism Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10188 Philosophies of Decolonization: Anti-Humanism and Further Explorations in the Construction of Racial Others Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10228 Philosophy Dissertation Information Course Not delivered this year 0
PHIL10056 Philosophy Work (Year Abroad, MEL) Not delivered this year 40
PHIL10064 Philosophy and the Environment Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10209 Philosophy of Action Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10230 Philosophy of Animals Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10192 Philosophy of Death and Dying Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10207 Philosophy of Economics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10195 Philosophy of Friendship Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10186 Philosophy of Information Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10005 Philosophy of Language Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10241 Philosophy of Language Models and Virtual Worlds Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10052 Philosophy of Mathematics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10007 Philosophy of Religion Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10219 Philosophy of Risk Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10242 Philosophy of Science (Honours) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10201 Philosophy of Social Science Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10231 Philosophy of Technology Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10225 Philosophy of Time Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10125 Philosophy of Time Travel Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10221 Philosophy of Virtual Worlds Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10152 Philosophy of Well-Being Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10208 Philosophy, Science and Policy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10143 SV1 Philosophy: Fun and Games Semester 2 20
PHIL10093 Political Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10156 Puzzles and Paradoxes Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10216 Radical Black Philosophies of Race and Racism Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10138 Realism, relativism, and reality Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10243 Representation and Reality Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10226 Science and Realism, a Historical Look Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10171 Science, Nature, and Social Values Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10082 Self, Agency and the Will Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10131 Social Cognition Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10203 Social Epistemology Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10204 Social Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10187 Special Study in Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10215 Studies in Africana Philosophy: Debates within Black Intellectual History from the 1800-1920 Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10134 SS1 The Computational Mind Semester 2 20
PHIL10206 The Ethnologists: The Racial Origins of Gender and the Feminine. Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10099 The Nature of Moral Understanding Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10246 SV1 The New Scientific Revolution: Simulation, Datafication, Digitisation Semester 2 20
PHIL10153 The Philosophy of Fiction Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10200 The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10161 The Philosophy of Simone Weil Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10014 The Philosophy of Wittgenstein Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10198 The Subordinate Male: Racism, Gendercide, and Savagery in the 20th and 21st Century Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10086 The rationalists: Spinoza and Leibniz Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10072 Themes in Epistemology Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10240 Time and the Mind Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10120 Topics in Ancient Cosmology Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10234 Topics in Artificial Intelligence Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10174 Topics in Mind and Cognition Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10172 Topics in the Philosophy of Gender and Race Not delivered this year 20
PHIL10245 SV1 Venturing into Black Philosophy: From the American Negro Academy to the Edinburgh School Semester 2 20
PHIL10250 SV1 Work, Justice, and Freedom: Simone Weil Semester 2 20

SCQF Level 11 (83 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PHIL11222 Advanced Topics in Early Modern Philosophy MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11207 Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11237 Advanced Topics in Metaphysics MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11215 Advanced Topics in Political Philosophy MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11038 SV1 Advanced topics in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition Semester 2 20
PHIL11106 SV1 Ancient Philosophy Seminar I Semester 1 20
PHIL11070 Ancient Theories of Mind MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11105 Applied Ethics MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11108 Aristotle MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11158 Belief, Desire and Rational Choice MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11216 Black Male Studies: Understanding Racism as Misandric Aggression Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11231 SV1 Buddhist Philosophy MSc Semester 1 20
PHIL11223 Chinese Philosophy MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11146 SV1 CogLab 1: Seminars in Contemporary Cognitive Science Semester 1 10
PHIL11147 CogLab 2: Seminars in Contemporary Cognitive Science Not delivered this year 10
PHIL11036 Dissertation (MScR, Philosophy) Not delivered this year 180
PHIL11138 Dissertation MSc Epistemology, Ethics and Mind (Online) Not delivered this year 60
PHIL11104 Dissertation Mind, Language & Embodied Cognition (MSc Dip) Not delivered this year 60
PHIL11238 Dissertation in Ancient Greek, Roman, or Islamic Philosophy Not delivered this year 60
PHIL11040 Dissertation with Coursework (MScR, Philosophy) Not delivered this year 140
PHIL11157 Dissertation: Part-Time MSc Epistemology, Ethics and Mind (Online) Not delivered this year 60
PHIL11236 Environmental Ethics MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11195 Epistemology and Evidence Law Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11186 Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11252 Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Semester 1) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11250 Free Will and Moral Responsibility MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11194 Freedom, Consent and Political Obligation Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11187 Further Topics in Normative Ethics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11199 Indian Philosophies of Mind and Language Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11037 SV1 Introduction to Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition Semester 1 20
PHIL11209 SV1 Islamic Philosophy Semester 1 20
PHIL11204 SV1 Islamic Philosophy (Online) Semester 1 20
PHIL11212 SV1 Japanese Philosophy MSc Semester 1 20
PHIL11114 SV1 Logic, Computability and Incompleteness Semester 1 20
PHIL11229 MSc Philosophy Proseminar A Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11230 MSc Philosophy Proseminar B Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11210 Meaning and Fulfilment Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11253 Measurement MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11043 Meta-Ethics (MSc) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11247 Meta-ethics Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11248 Meta-ethics (Online) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11239 SV1 Normative Ethics Semester 2 20
PHIL11241 SS1 Normative Ethics (Online) Semester 2 20
PHIL11219 Phenomenology MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11203 Phil Skills (Online) Not delivered this year 0
PHIL11218 Philosophical Methods Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11217 Philosophical Naturalism MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11211 Philosophies of Decolonization: Anti-Humanism and Further Explorations in the Construction of Racial Others Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11001 Philosophy Dissertation (MSc Dip) Not delivered this year 60
PHIL11234 Philosophy of Animals MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11251 Philosophy of Death and Dying MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11220 Philosophy of Friendship MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11197 Philosophy of Information Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11226 Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11130 Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (Online) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11159 Philosophy of Religion (Online) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11254 Philosophy of Religion MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11221 Philosophy of Risk MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11227 SV1 Philosophy of Science Semester 2 20
PHIL11133 SV1 Philosophy of Science (Online) Semester 2 20
PHIL11201 Philosophy of Time Travel (Online) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11103 Philosophy of Time Travel MSc (Semester 1) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11233 Philosophy of Virtual Worlds MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11160 Philosophy, Science and Religion 1: The Physical World (Online) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11255 Radical Black Philosophies of Race and Racism MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11232 Science and Realism, a Historical Look MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11088 Self, Agency and the Will MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11243 SV1 Social Epistemology Semester 2 20
PHIL11244 SS1 Social Epistemology (Online) Semester 2 20
PHIL11214 Studies in Africana Philosophy: Debates within Black Intellectual History from the 1800-1920 (MSc) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11115 The Computational Mind MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11249 The Nature of Moral Understanding MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11206 The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11075 The Rationalists: Spinoza and Leibniz MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11240 The Social Mind Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11242 The Social Mind (Online) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11064 Themes in Epistemology MSc Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11245 SV1 Theory of Knowledge Semester 1 20
PHIL11246 SS1 Theory of Knowledge (Online) Semester 1 20
DIVI11072 SS1 Dissertation (MSc Philosophy, Science and Religion (online)) Flexible 60
PGHC11181 SS1 Epicurus and Epicureanism Semester 2 20
PGHC11022 Greek Philosophy (Plato's Republic) Not delivered this year 20
EDUA11453 Philosophy of Education - Future Directions Not delivered this year 20

SCQF Level 12 (1 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PHIL12001 PhD Philosophy Proseminar Not delivered this year 0
Key
Available to all students - SV
Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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