Philosophy

Programme structure

Programme Structure

You take six taught courses: in each of the two semesters you take the philosophy research methods course and one course in each of your two optional subject areas. You also write a dissertation on a specialised topic, supported by a supervisor over the summer.

Subject areas that will be taught every year will be:

• Ethics
• Political Philosophy
• Philosophy of Mind
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Language

Students taking the Ethics or Politics option can choose from our standard course in the second semester or opt to take a special course in Ethics and Politics in the Classical Chinese Text Zhuangzi.

Subject areas that may be on offer, subject to demand, include, but may not be limited to:

• Epistemology
• Formal logic
• Philosophical logic
• Philosophy of mathematics
• Aesthetics
• Philosophy of religion
• History of philosophy (including Greek philosophy, the Scottish Enlightenment, Ancient Confucian philosophy and post-Kantian philosophy).

If you wish to take one or two subjects apart from the ones that we will put on every year, email fiona.macpherson@glasgow.ac.uk with details. We will take this into consideration when choosing which, if any, option courses to put on that year.