BA Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: Pass, with 32 points overall with 16 points at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Ethics and Religion, a philosophy degree centred on historical, ethical, and religious perspectives through rigorous inquiry. Core topics include Research Methods, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students complete their studies by producing an 8,000-word dissertation on a philosophical topic of their choice. The first year covers foundational ideas through Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ethics, Faith and Reason, Human Understanding and Understanding Humans, Reason and Argument, and Truth, Knowledge, and Objectivity, with optional choices such as Applied Ethics and Freedom and Responsibility. The second year examines historical and conceptual developments via Mind and World in the History of Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Self and Agency in the History of Philosophy, alongside various optional topics like Epistemology: Knowledge and Evidence and Political Philosophy. The final year centres on independent research through the Philosophy Dissertation alongside optional modules spanning classical philosophy, applied ethics, and political theory.
Modules
- Ancient Greek Philosophy
- Ethics
- Faith and Reason
- Human Understanding and Understanding Humans
- Reason and Argument
- Truth, Knowledge, and Objectivity
- Applied Ethics
- Freedom and Responsibility
- Human Origins
- Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture
- Philosophy of Race
- Primary and Secondary Education: Critical Observations
- Puzzles about Art and Literature
- Mind and World in the History of Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy of Religion
- Self and Agency in the History of Philosophy
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- Animal Ethics, Animal Minds
- Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Modern Britain
- Cognitive Psychology in Education
- Darwin and the Making of Evolutionary Thought: Myth, Memory, and Modern Society
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Epistemology: Knowledge and Evidence
- Ethics of Global Poverty
- Exploring Other Cultures
- Human Origins
- Humanities and Professional Practice
- Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture
- Islam's Identity Crisis: Between Violent Jihadism and Peaceful Reformation
- Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Philosophy
- Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
- Philosophy of Race
- Political Philosophy
- Self, society, nature, and normativity
- Sin and Society, 1100-1500
- The Mind, The Brain, and Consciousness
- The Power of Rome: Europe’s first empire
- Philosophy Dissertation
- Anthropological Perspectives on Migration and Mobilities
- Business, Morality, and Markets
- Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Modern Britain
- Classical Chinese Philosophy
- Classical Indian Philosophy: Self, Knowledge, and Liberation
- Crime and Punishment
- Darwin and the Making of Evolutionary Thought: Myth, Memory, and Modern Society
- Democratic Theory
- Exploring the Hidden Assumptions in Education
- Green Political Thought: Humans and other stories
- Happiness and Wellbeing
- Islam's Identity Crisis: Between Violent Jihadism and Peaceful Reformation
- Islamic Philosophy
- Philosophical Pessimism
- Philosophy and Ethics in Psychology and AI
- Philosophy of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
- Political Philosophy
- Sin and Society, 1100-1500
- Stonehenge to Skara Brae: the Neolithic of Britain
- The Ethics of Belief: Evidence, Truth, and Ideology
- The Ethics of Climate Change
- The Power of Rome: Europe’s first empire