BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method 

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Programme Code: UBPHS3

For all first, second and third year students in 2015-16  

Paper

Course number and title

See note

LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things

Year 1

1

PH103

Reason Knowledge and Values: An Introduction to Philosophy

2

PH101

Logic

3 & 4

Two approved papers taught outside the Department

Year 2 

5

PH201

Philosophy of Science or

PH203

Philosophy of the Social Sciences or

 

PH213

Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues or

PH220

Scientific Method and Policy   or

 

PH219

Governing Knowledge: Foundational Issues in Science Policy (H) (withdrawn 15/16) and PH231 Evidence and Policy (H) (withdrawn 15/16)

6, 7, & 8

Up to three papers from the Philosophy Option List below (can include an approved paper taught outside the Department)

Year 3

9, 10, 11 & 12

Up to four papers from the Philosophy Option List below (can include an approved paper taught outside the Department)

Notes

LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course is compulsory but does not affect the final degree classification.

 

Philosophy Option List

LL305

Jurisprudence (third year only)

LN253

European Literature and Society

PH201

Philosophy of Science

PH203

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

PH213

Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues

PH214

Philosophy, Morals and Politics

PH217

Set Theory and Further Logic 

PH219

Governing Knowledge: Foundational Issues in Science Policy (H) (withdrawn 15/16)

PH220

Scientific Method and Policy 

PH221

Problems in Analytic Philosophy

PH222

Philosophy and Public Policy

PH225

Business and Organisational Ethics (H)

PH227

Genes, Brains and Society (H)

PH228

Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (H)

PH229

Global Justice (H) (n/a 15/16)

PH230

Einstein for Everyone: From Time Travel to the Edge of the Universe (H)

PH231

Evidence and Policy (H) (withdrawn 15/16)

PH232

Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (H)

PH311

Philosophy of Economics (formerly PH211)

PH399

Dissertation in Philosophy (formerly PH299) (third year only)