Philosophy : BA Hons : V500

Lancaster University

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Our Philosophy degree allows you to study and debate important philosophical questions with expert academics and your peers. How should we live? Is there a God? Are we free to act as we wish if everything is determined by prior causes? Why should we obey the law? Can science discover all the facts that can be known?

These are some of the many challenging questions you will engage with in a Philosophy degree. At Lancaster, we approach these questions through the history of Philosophy – studying figures such as Plato, Descartes, Kant and Nietzsche – and also via contemporary philosophical debate.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

In your first year, you’ll gain an understanding of some of the core areas of Philosophy by taking Introduction to Philosophy plus two other modules. In your second and third years, you can choose from a wide range of optional modules such as Philosophy of Mind; Ethics; and Philosophy of Science. There is also the option to engage in one-to-one study with a member of academic staff for your third year dissertation on a specific philosophical topic of interest to you.

Our Philosophy graduates have gone on to work in accountancy, local government, banking, the Civil Service, teaching, nursing, fashion and journalism. Others have pursued postgraduate degrees.

A Philosophy degree helps you develop skills in critical reasoning, clarity of thought and communication. These skills are very much at a premium in the employment market. Over 40% of graduate vacancies are open to students of any discipline. Employers look for clear thinking, broad vision, independence, the capacity to locate and analyse problems and exercise judgement in their solution, to present situations lucidly and argue effectively for favoured courses of action. Your degree will equip you with these skills.


Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level ABB

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Philosophy
  • History of Philosophy
  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • Christianity and Islam
  • Epistemology
  • Theory and practice
  • History
  • Metaphysics
  • Politics and Economics
  • Philosophy of Science

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • Introduction to Philosophy
Year 2

Optional

    • Constructing Ethics: Christianity and Islam
    • Epistemology
    • Ethics: Theory and Practice
    • History of Philosophy
    • Metaphysics
    • Philosophical Questions in the Study of Politics and Economics
    • Philosophy of Science
    • Philosophy of the Mind
    • Western Philosophy and Religious Thought
Year 3

Optional

    • Aesthetics
    • Continental Philosophy
    • Darwinism and Philosophy
    • Dissertation
    • Dissertation with external collaboration
    • Feminist Philosophy
    • Future generations
    • History of Twentieth Century Philosophy
    • Indian Religious and Philosophical Thought
    • Logic and Language
    • Modern Religious and Atheistic Thought
    • Political Ideas
    • PPR in Education
    • Reading Political Theory
    • Seminar in Contemporary Moral Philosophy
    • Special Subject: The Imagination

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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