BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Programme Code: UBPHS3
Department: Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
For students starting this programme of study in 2020/21
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Three-year classification scheme for BA/BSc degrees for all students from the 2018/19 academic year
Students on this programme have the opportunity to receive a language specialism attached to their degree certificate and transcript. See the details at the bottom of this page for more information.
Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
Paper |
Course number, title (unit value) | |
Year 1 | ||
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Paper 1 |
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) # | |
Paper 2 |
PH111 Introduction to Logic (0.5) | |
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And either: | |
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PH105 Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy (0.5) or | |
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Papers 3 & 4 |
Courses to the value of 2.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
Year 2 | ||
Paper 5 |
PH201 Philosophy of Science (1.0) | |
Papers 6 & 7 |
Courses to the value of 2.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
Paper 8 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
Year 3 | ||
Papers 9, 10 & 11 |
Courses to the value of 3.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
Paper 12 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
Philosophy Options List
PH105 Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy (0.5) B | |
PH203 Philosophy of Society (1.0) # (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
PH214 Philosophy, Morals and Politics (1.0) | |
PH217 Set Theory and Further Logic (1.0) # (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
PH221 Problems of Analytic Philosophy (1.0) # (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0) | |
PH225 Business and Organisational Ethics (0.5) | |
PH227 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5) | |
PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5) # | |
PH232 Physics and Uncertainty: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (0.5) # | |
PH238 Philosophy of Language (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
PH239 Anarchy, Authority and Evidence: Topics in Philosophy of Law (0.5) | |
PH332 Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (0.5) (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
PH333 Philosophy of Gender and Race (0.5) | |
Undergraduate Outside Options List (Year 1)
Where the regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department, this means that you may take any course in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to timetabling constraints and any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. If your degree is for joint honours (e.g. Philosophy and Economics) or is a major/minor combination (e.g., Geography with Economics), a course outside the department means a course taught in any department other than the two named in the title of your degree. The home department of each course is indicated by the first two letters in its code. | |
Outside Options for students in Year 1: | |
AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5) | |
AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5) | |
AN100 Being Human: Contemporary Themes in Social Anthropology (1.0) | |
AN101 A History of Anthropological Theory (1.0) | |
DS101A Fundamentals of Data Science (0.5) | |
DS101W Fundamentals of Data Science (0.5) | |
DS105A Data for Data Science (0.5) | |
DS105W Data for Data Science (0.5) | |
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0) | |
EH111 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth (0.5) | |
FM101 Finance (0.5) | |
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) | |
GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0) | |
GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0) | |
GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0) | |
GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0) | |
GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0) | |
HY113 From Empire to Independence: World History in the Twentieth Century (1.0) | |
HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0) | |
HY118 Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800 (1.0) ~A | |
LL104 Law of Obligations (1.0) | |
LL106 Public Law (1.0) | |
LL108 Criminal Law (1.0) | |
LL143 Tort Law (1.0) | |
LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) # * | |
LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) # | |
LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) # | |
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0) | |
LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (1.0) # (not available 2023/24) | |
LN342 Academic Chinese for International Relations (1.0) # * | |
PB102 Social Psychology (1.0) (not available 2023/24) | |
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) # | |
PH105 Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy (0.5) | |
SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0) ~F | |
SP112 Politics of Social Policy Making (1.0) | |
Footnotes for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Year 1)~A : HY118 can be taken in Year 1 only ~B : MG104 can be taken in Year 1 only ~C : MG105 can be taken in Year 1 only ~D : PB101 is not available to third year students. | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Year 1)~1 : EC1A3 can not be taken with EC1A5 ~2 : EC1A5 can not be taken with EC1A3 ~3 : EC1B3 can not be taken with EC1B5 ~4 : EC1B5 can not be taken with EC1B3 ~5 : PH111 can not be taken with PH101, PH104 ~6 : PH112 can not be taken with PH101, PH104 ~7 : ST102 can not be taken with ST107, ST108, ST109, ST110 ~8 : ST107 can not be taken with ST102, ST108, ST109, ST110 | |
Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)
Where the regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department, this means that you may take any course in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to timetabling constraints and any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. If your degree is for joint honours (e.g. Philosophy and Economics) or is a major/minor combination (e.g., Geography with Economics), a course outside the department means a course taught in any department other than the two named in the title of your degree. The home department of each course is indicated by the first two letters in its code. | |
Outside Options for students in Year 2 and Year 3: | |
AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5) | |
AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5) | |
AC311 Results Accountability and Management Control for Strategy Implementation (0.5) # * ~A | |
AC312 Performance Measurement, Strategy, and Uncertainty (0.5) # * ~B | |
AC331 Contemporary Issues in Financial Accounting (0.5) # * ~C | |
AC332 Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (0.5) # * ~D | |
AC341 Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Financial Audit (0.5) ~E | |
AC342 Accounting, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (0.5) ~F | |
AN100 Being Human: Contemporary Themes in Social Anthropology (1.0) | |
AN101 A History of Anthropological Theory (1.0) | |
AN102 Ethnography through Mixed Media (1.0) | |
AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (1.0) | |
AN205 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) | |
AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology (1.0) | |
AN237 The Anthropology of Development (0.5) | |
AN240 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
AN245 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange (0.5) | |
AN269 The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
AN276 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5) * (not available 2023/24) | |
AN277 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # * | |
AN281 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
AN283 Anthropology, Art, and Poetics (0.5) | |
AN284 Anthropological Approaches to Race, Racism, and Decolonisation (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
AN292 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5) * | |
AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) | |
AN393 Language, Signs, World, Action! Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (0.5) # * | |
DS101A Fundamentals of Data Science (0.5) | |
DS101W Fundamentals of Data Science (0.5) | |
DS105A Data for Data Science (0.5) | |
DS105W Data for Data Science (0.5) | |
EC321 Monetary Economics and Aggregate Fluctuations (1.0) # * | |
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0) | |
EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) | |
EH207 China since 1800: Culture, institutions and economic growth (1.0) # | |
EH209 The Family Economy in History: 1260 to the present day (1.0) # | |
EH211 Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000 (1.0) (not available 2023/24) | |
EH214 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century (0.5) | |
EH215 Money and Finance: From the Eighteenth Century to Modernity (0.5) | |
EH217 Chinese Economic History since 1800: A Chronology (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
EH218 Chinese Economic History since 1800: Economic Growth in a Historical Perspective (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
EH221 Boom and Bust: Macroeconomic History of the Modern World (1.0) (not available 2023/24) | |
EH222 Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa (1.0) | |
EH225 Latin America and the International Economy (1.0) | |
EH238 The Origins of Growth (1.0) | |
EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context (1.0) | |
EH312 Knowledge, Technology and Economy from the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) * ~H | |
EU3A1 The Politics and Policies of 'Brexit': The UK's changing relationship with the European Union (0.5) * ~J (not available 2023/24) | |
FM101 Finance (0.5) | |
FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets (1.0) # | |
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) | |
GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) # * | |
GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0) # | |
GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (1.0) # * (not available 2023/24) | |
GV313 Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective (0.5) # * ~L | |
GV324 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5) # | |
GV330 Data Science Applications to Politics Research (0.5) # * | |
GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0) | |
GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0) | |
GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0) | |
GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0) | |
GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0) | |
GY202 Introduction to Global Development (1.0) | |
GY206 Urban Geography and Globalisation (0.5) | |
GY207 Economy, Society and Place (0.5) | |
GY209 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Development (0.5) # | |
GY220 Environment: Science and Society (1.0) | |
GY222 Applied Environmental Economics (1.0) | |
GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5) * (not available 2023/24) | |
GY309 The Political Geography of Development (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
GY310 Urban Politics (0.5) | |
GY313 Firms and Economic Geography: Location, Technology and Innovation (0.5) # * | |
GY314 The Economics of Housing Markets and Migration (0.5) # * | |
GY316 Gender, Space and Power (0.5) | |
GY327 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) | |
GY328 Political Ecology of Development (0.5) | |
GY329 Applied Economics of Environment and Development (0.5) # | |
HY113 From Empire to Independence: World History in the Twentieth Century (1.0) | |
HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0) | |
HY200 The Rights of Man: the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International (1.0) * | |
HY206 The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989 (1.0) | |
HY221 The History of Russia, 1676-1825 (1.0) | |
HY226 The Great War 1914-1918 (1.0) | |
HY235 Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840 (1.0) | |
HY239 People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the present day (1.0) | |
HY240 From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day (1.0) | |
HY241 What is History? Methods and Debates (1.0) | |
HY242 The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History (1.0) | |
HY243 Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800 (1.0) (not available 2023/24) | |
HY246 The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s (1.0) * | |
HY247 The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present (1.0) * (not available 2023/24) | |
HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) (1.0) * | |
HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799 (1.0) | |
HY320 The Cold War Endgame (1.0) | |
HY322 Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945 (1.0) | |
HY323 Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825 (1.0) (not available 2023/24) | |
HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (1.0) * | |
HY329 Independent India: Myths of Freedom and Development (1.0) | |
HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century (1.0) | |
HY332 Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War (1.0) * | |
HY333 People and Power in West African History, c. 1450 - 1850 (1.0) * | |
HY334 Communication Revolutions in Latin America, c.1539 to the Present (1.0) | |
HY335 History of Foreign Relations of the People’s Republic of China, 1949-2008 (1.0) | |
HY336 The United States and nuclear weapons from the Manhattan project to the end of the Cold War (1.0) * (not available 2023/24) | |
LL104 Law of Obligations (1.0) | |
LL106 Public Law (1.0) | |
LL108 Criminal Law (1.0) | |
LL143 Tort Law (1.0) | |
LL201 Law and State Power (1.0) | |
LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union (1.0) | |
LL241 European Legal History (1.0) | |
LL250 Law and The Environment (1.0) | |
LL251 Intellectual Property Law (1.0) | |
LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750 (1.0) (not available 2023/24) | |
LL278 Public International Law (1.0) | |
LL293 Tax and Tax Avoidance (1.0) | |
LL295 Media Law (1.0) | |
LL300 Competition Law (1.0) | |
LL301 Global Commodities Law (1.0) * (not available 2023/24) | |
LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) # * | |
LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) # | |
LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) # | |
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0) | |
LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (1.0) # (not available 2023/24) | |
LN342 Academic Chinese for International Relations (1.0) # * | |
MA315 Algebra and its Applications (0.5) # * (not available 2023/24) | |
MC300 Media Power and Communication Practice (Showcase Portfolio) (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
MG209 E-business (0.5) | |
MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) # | |
MG212 Marketing (0.5) | |
MG213 Information Systems (0.5) | |
MG228 Managing the Stone-Age Brain (0.5) (not available 2023/24) | |
MG303 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets (0.5) # * ~S | |
MG305 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5) | |
MG310 Strategic Decision Making (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
MG312 Science of People in Workplaces (0.5) | |
MG316 Brand Strategy (0.5) | |
PB102 Social Psychology (1.0) (not available 2023/24) | |
PB301 Cognition and Culture (0.5) # * (not available 2023/24) | |
PB302 Creativity and Innovation (0.5) # * (not available 2023/24) | |
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) # | |
PH105 Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy (0.5) | |
PH201 Philosophy of Science (1.0) | |
PH214 Philosophy, Morals and Politics (1.0) | |
PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0) | |
PH227 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5) | |
PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5) # * | |
PH232 Physics and Uncertainty: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (0.5) # * | |
PH238 Philosophy of Language (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) | |
PH239 Anarchy, Authority and Evidence: Topics in Philosophy of Law (0.5) | |
PH240 The Ethics of Data and AI (0.5) | |
PH333 Philosophy of Gender and Race (0.5) | |
SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (1.0) | |
SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0) | |
SO234 Digital Technology, Speed and Culture (0.5) # * (not available 2023/24) | |
SP210 Development and Social Change (1.0) | |
SP230 Education Policy (1.0) | |
SP231 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy (1.0) | |
SP232 Health and Social Care Policy (1.0) (not available 2023/24) | |
SP271 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) (not available 2023/24) | |
SP314 Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy (0.5) ~X (not available 2023/24) | |
SP315 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global Souths (0.5) ~Y | |
SP331 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) ~Z | |
SP335 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5) ~? | |
SP374 Riots, Disorder and Urban Violence (0.5) # ~? (not available 2023/24) | |
ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference (1.0) # | |
ST213 Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization (0.5) # | |
Footnotes for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)~A : AC311 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~B : AC312 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~C : AC331 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~D : AC332 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~E : AC341 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~F : AC342 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~G : EC330 can be taken in Year 3 only ~H : EH312 is not available to students on the BSc in Economic History and Geography programme ~I : EH316 is not available to students on the BSc in Economic History and Geography programme ~J : EU3A1 can be taken in Year 3 only ~K : GV311 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~L : GV313 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~M : GY317 can be taken in Year 3 only ~N : LL342 can be taken in Year 3 only ~O : MA321 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~P : MA322 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~Q : MG301 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~R : MG302 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~S : MG303 can be taken in Year 3 only ~T : PB100 is not available to third year students. ~U : PB101 is not available to third year students. ~V : SP111 is not available to third year students ~W : SP112 is not available to third year students ~X : SP314 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~Y : SP315 can be taken in Year 3 only | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)~1 : EC1A3 can not be taken with EC1A5, EC100, EC102 ~2 : EC1A5 can not be taken with EC100, EC102, EC1A3 ~3 : EC1B3 can not be taken with EC1B5, EC100, EC102 ~4 : EC1B5 can not be taken with EC100, EC102, EC1B3 ~5 : Before taking EC2A3 you must take EC1A3 ~6 : EC2A3 can not be taken with EC2A5, EC202, MG207, EC2B3 ~7 : Before taking EC2A5 you must take EC1A5 ~8 : EC2A5 can not be taken with EC2A3, EC2B5, MG207, EC202 ~9 : EC2B3 can not be taken with EC2B5 ~10 : EC2B5 can not be taken with EC2B3 ~11 : Before taking EC2C4 you must take EC2C3 ~12 : LL275 can not be taken with LL276 ~13 : LL276 can not be taken with LL275 ~14 : MG205 can not be taken with EC220, EC221 ~15 : PH111 can not be taken with PH101, PH104 ~16 : PH112 can not be taken with PH101, PH104 ~17 : ST102 can not be taken with ST107, ST108, ST109, ST110 ~18 : ST107 can not be taken with ST102, ST108, ST109, ST110 ~19 : ST109 can not be taken with ST102, ST107, ST108 ~20 : ST110 can not be taken with ST102, ST107, ST108 ~21 : ST201 can not be taken with DS202, ST211 ~22 : ST205 can not be taken with ST307 ~23 : ST211 can not be taken with ST201 ~24 : ST307 can not be taken with ST205 | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options
* means available with permission
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
Footnotes
A : LL305 can be taken in the third year only.
B : PH105 can be taken in the first and second year only.
C : PH399 cannot be taken in Year 1 or Year 2.
Language Specialism:
Students who have taken and passed at least one language course in each year of their degree (i.e. 25% of their overall programme of study) will be offered the opportunity to receive a language specialism attached to their degree certificate and transcript. Students must take all courses in the same language (French, Spanish, German, Mandarin or Russian) in order to qualify for the specialism. The three courses must also be consecutively harder in level, for example: beginner, intermediate and advanced. Students who choose to take language courses are not obligated to receive a specialism, but have the option if they wish. Degree certificates which include a language specialism will state the language in the title, for example: BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (with French).
Note for prospective students:
For changes to undergraduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the undergraduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the undergraduate summary page for future students.