B.A. (Hons) Environment, Technology & Philosophy

Year 1 consists of four core units, designed to initiate you with the activity of philosophising, to acquaint you with the activity of reading original texts, and to introduce you to a range of basic themes and concepts in the tradition of philosophy - including ethics, and metaphysics.

• Death, God and the Meaning of Life
• Ethics and Social Philosophy
• Introduction to the History of Philosophy
• Mind, Reason and Reality

The core units, which you will study in Year 2, will develop the themes from Year 1, focusing on the study of particular philosophical texts in the tradition of European philosophy. You will also have the opportunity to choose from a range of optional themed course units, for example, Nietzsche and Sartre, phenomenology and virtues and values.

• Metaphysics
• Science, Technology and the Environment

Option units:

• Engaging the HUmanities
• Greek Philosophy: The Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle
• Nietzsche and Sartre
• Phenomenology
• Philosophy of Religion
• Virtues and Values

Year 3 allows you to develop through independent work via a dissertation of your choice. Additionally, there are various optional units available, which allow you to pursue your particular interests, whether in the form of specialist authors like Heidegger or Wittgenstein, or thematic options like aesthetics, philosophy of the body, and philosophy of literature.

• Dissertation
• Green Politics

Option units

• Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
• Bioethics and Moral Dilemmas
• Embodiment and Technology
• Kant and Hegel
• Philosophy of Education
• Philosophy of Literature
• Mind and Action