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Department of Philosophy
Guide to Philosophy Modules for Second Year
Students in 2019/20
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Guide to Second Year Modules for 2019 - 20
Contents
Section 1 – Introduction 2 Modules 2
Key Ideas modules 2
Second Year Option Modules 2
Electives 2
Languages for All 3
Changing modules 3
Maximum numbers on modules 4
Section 2 – Degree Programmes Structures 4 Philosophy Single Subject 5
English and Philosophy 14
Philosophy and Linguistics 21
French/German and Philosophy 26
History and Philosophy 31
Mathematics and Philosophy 36
Philosophy and Sociology 41
Physics with Philosophy 49
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Section 1 – Introduction
This Catalogue sets out the modules which will be available to present first year students in their second year, 2019-20. All current first year students, whatever their combination, need to choose the Philosophy modules for their second year. These choices can be reviewed later, with certain restrictions (see Changing Modules on the next page). Students on joint programmes will hear from their other department about the modules they need to take with them.
Students will need to register their module selections via an online system which will be made available between 10 am on Monday 25th February and 5 pm on Monday 4th March 2019. More information about this will be sent out shortly and students should check their University of York email account regularly for any updates.
Advice from Supervisors
You are strongly advised to read through this catalogue and then discuss your module options with your supervisor before selecting the modules online. Supervisors are available during their Drop-in Feedback and Advice Time sessions or at other times by special arrangement. These sessions are available at: Staff Contact Information Spring 2019 and are also posted on the display stand near the Philosophy office.
If you are a joint student and your supervisor is not in Philosophy you can discuss your choices with Rob Trueman ([email protected]) who is the Associate Programme Leader for Undergraduate Programmes.
Modules All modules taken in the second and third year are University assessed and count towards your final degree classification. Students must take 120 credits over the course of the year. This includes modules taken for assessment in any other department.
Key Ideas (20 credits)/ Key Ideas – Short (10 credits – for specific programmes only)
The Key Ideas modules introduce key issues in three central areas of philosophy:
Value
Theoretical Philosophy
History of Philosophy
They are designed to aid development of core philosophical skills.
Second Year Options (10 credits)
Second year options give you an opportunity to broaden your knowledge of the discipline by taking
shorter, more focused modules dealing with a particular area, topic or skill.
Lecture-based Modules
These modules are designed to introduce a specialist area of Philosophy and are generally taught by weekly lectures, with four additional 1.5 hour seminars during the term.
Reading Group Modules
These modules provide an opportunity for close study of a philosophical text and are generally taught by a weekly 90-minute reading group to discuss set reading.
Elective Modules – (Please note that only students on the Philosophy Single Subject programme may
substitute a Philosophy module for an elective in their second year)
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Within the University Elective Module scheme the opportunity exists to substitute modules in other departments for some Philosophy modules. If you wish to take any elective module you should first consult the University's Compendium of Elective Modules: http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/sro/electives.htm), see your supervisor or joint programme adviser, and then enquire in the relevant department whether space is available. Forms for elective registration are available online at: http://www.york.ac.uk/philosophy/current/undergraduate/modules/#tab-4 and also from Carol Dixon in the Philosophy Office to whom the form must be returned on completion by the Department offering the elective. Please note: as there is no guarantee that there would be a place available on an elective of your choice or that it would be compatible with your timetable, when choosing your modules for 2019/20 you should ensure that you select 120 credits of modules from your degree programme. If it is subsequently confirmed that a place is available on the elective and it fits in with your timetable you may apply to replace one of your modules with an elective by using the elective form mentioned above.
Languages for All – modules taught by the Language Teaching Centre The opportunity also exists on some degree programmes to substitute Philosophy modules with Languages for All (LFA) modules. If you wish to take an LFA module you should first consult the LFA webpages: www.york.ac.uk/inst/ltc/lfa. LFA modules are taught over the Autumn and Spring Terms and then assessed in the Summer Term. They require considerable commitment and cannot be dropped after Week 3 of the Autumn Term. If you are considering taking an LFA module, you should be sure to discuss it with your supervisor first.
Please note that in the second year only students on the Philosophy Single Subject programme may replace a Philosophy module with an LFA module to count for credit.
Please also note that if you choose to take an LFA module that is below the level appropriate to your stage (ie, below second year level) this may be approved but the module will only be marked on a pass/fail basis and the credits would not be used to calculate the overall degree mark. Please contact Carol Dixon in the Philosophy Department for further details.
Practical considerations (e.g. timetable clashes, over-subscription, or pre-requisites in the other Department), may mean you are not able to take a specific elective or LFA module.
The University imposes an upper limit on the number of credits you may take as Electives or LFA modules. You may take up to 20 credits of electives in your second year.
Changing Modules
Autumn and Spring Terms
You may change out of or into a module up to the end of the second week of teaching on that module (normally the end of Week 3) but no later than that.
Summer Term
Due to the restricted number of teaching weeks in the Summer Term, Second Year 10-credit modules taken in the Summer Term cannot be changed once term has started.
Requests for changes should be sent to Carol Dixon ([email protected])
Although changing modules is permissible under the rules above, practical considerations, (e.g. timetable clashes and over-subscription), may mean you are not able to change onto a specific module.
Only where there are exceptional reasons, such as illness, and with the permission of the Board of Studies and the University’s Special Cases Committee, can you drop out of a module after the deadline.
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NB No change of module will be recognised unless notification of it has been received and
acknowledged by Carol Dixon in the Department office.
Maximum numbers on modules
Key Ideas modules are normally capped at 60
All other modules are normally subject to a maximum number cap:
Lecture-based modules: 45
Reading group modules: 30
Section 2 – Degree Programme Structure
Your choice of modules for the second and third years (Stages 2 and 3) is governed by the programme structure for your degree programme (as detailed below) but there are two general rules which apply to all programmes:
1. All students may take a maximum of 60 credits and a minimum of 20 credits in any term (a module lasting more than one term is considered to have its credits spread evenly across its duration).
2. All students must take 120 total credits in the second year, including credits taken in other departments if they are combined students, and any elective modules.
These rules are meant to protect you from over-burdening yourself. The credit value of a module reflects the time spent in teaching and learning.
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Philosophy Single Subject
Year (Stage 2) (120 credits)
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
*Key Ideas Module (20) *Key Ideas Module (20)
*Key Ideas Module (20) *Key Ideas Module (20)
Option Module (10)
A further Option Module in any one of the terms (10)
LFA, elective**, or *Key Ideas Module (20)
Students may replace one Key Ideas module and one Option Module with either History of Political Thought (30) or Contemporary Political Philosophy (30)
NB Students may not take more than 60 credits in a single term
*Students must take at least one Key Ideas module from each of the three bands below:
Value: Aesthetics
Applied Ethics Ethical Theory
Feminist Philosophy Religious Ethics
Theoretical: Metaphysics
Intermediate Logic Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Science
History: Aristotle
Hume’s Empiricism Kant’s Copernican Revolution
Nietzsche Rationalism: Spinoza and Leibniz
**You may only take 20 credits in electives or LFA modules in a single year.
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MODULES AVAILABLE TO PHILOSOPHY SINGLE SUBJECT STUDENTS
Key Ideas Modules
Autumn Term 2019
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00091I Band: Value
AESTHETICS Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the key issues and concepts in contemporary analytical aesthetics (philosophy of art), in relation to a range of art forms, including the visual arts, music, and literature.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00091I/2019-20
PHI00082I Band: Value
ETHICAL THEORY Brief details: This module introduces some key issues in moral philosophy including: the concept of value; moral aggregation; population ethics; problems of co-operation, and the role of character ethics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00082I/2019-20
PHI00081I Band: History
HUME’S EMPIRICISM Brief details: This module will introduce the key ideas in Hume’s philosophy, including, for example, impressions and ideas, causation, induction, external world scepticism, the self, liberty and necessity.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00081I/2019-20
PHI00096I Band: Theoretical
INTERMEDIATE LOGIC (Autumn and Spring) Brief details: The module aims to introduce students to formal logic, in contrast to Reason &
50% Essay 50% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00096I/2019-20
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Argument which focuses on the logic of natural languages.
PHI00073I Band: Theoretical
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Brief details: This module will investigate a range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in philosophy of language.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00073I/2019-20
PHI00077I Band: History
RATIONALISM: SPINOZA & LEIBNIZ Brief details: This module looks at Descartes’ discussion of substance, attribute, and the mind/body relationship along with responses found it the works of Spinoza and Leibniz.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00077I/2019-20
PHI00072I Band: Value
RELIGIOUS ETHICS Brief details: This module considers questions about the relationship between God and morality
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00072I/2019-20
Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00079I Band: Value
APPLIED ETHICS Brief details: This module introduces students to a range of important debates in applied ethics, such as: global poverty, animal ethics, abortion, and euthanasia.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00079I/2019-20
PHI00066I Band: History
ARISTOTLE Brief details: This module introduces the key ideas in Aristotle’s
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00066I/
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philosophy, including, for example, his theory of substance and accident, hylomorphism, and efficient, formal, material and final causation.
2019-20
PHI00109I Band: Value
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY Brief details: Feminist philosophers study issues in social and political philosophy, but also philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology. Are our conceptions of, for example, knowledge or value ‘gendered’ in problematic ways?
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00109I/2019-20
PHI00097I Band: History
KANT’S COPERNICAN REVOLUTION Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to Kant’s theoretical philosophy (his theory of knowledge and metaphysics).
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00097I/2019-20
PHI00074I Band: Theoretical
METAPHYSICS Brief details: This module will develop students’ knowledge and understanding of a representative range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in metaphysics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00074I/2019-20
PHI00075I Band: History
NIETZSCHE Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to some key themes in Nietzsche’s philosophy
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00075I/2019-20
PHI00078I Band: Theoretical
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Brief details: This module will
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/program
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introduce central issues in the philosophy of mind, including: the metaphysics of mind (the mind-body problem), the epistemology of mind (knowledge of our own and others’ minds), intentionality and agency.
mes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00078I/2019-20
PHI00080I Band: Theoretical
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Brief details: This module will introduce several key themes in contemporary philosophy of science.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00080I/2019-20
30-credit Politics Modules (available to Philosophy Single Subject Students only)
Autumn 2019, Spring 2020 and Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
POL00004I
CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Brief details: By what criteria do we decide that political arrangements are just or unjust? What would a just society be like?
Essay and Exam
30
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/POL00004I/2019-20
POL00005I
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT Brief details: This module explores the continued relevance of some classic texts in modern political theory. It focuses specifically on the 'social contract tradition' and its critics: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume and Kant.
Essay and Exam
30
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/POL00005I/2019-20
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Second Year 10-Credit Option Modules
Autumn Term 2019
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMEN
T
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00007I GOD AND MORALITY Brief details: This module investigates whether God must, or even can, provide a foundation for morality.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00007I/2019-20
PHI00042I IMAGINATION Brief details: This module examines the role of the imagination in epistemology, philosophy of mind and aesthetics from historical and contemporary perspectives.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00042I/2019-20
PHI00107I READING MARX Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of some of the key texts of Karl Marx, examining some of the most important elements of Marx'’ contribution to political philosophy.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00107I/2019-20
PHI00019I READING PLATO Brief details: This module will promote engagement with Plato’s ideas through close textual study of a Platonic dialogue.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00019I/2019-20
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Spring Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00008I PHILOSOPHY OF TIME Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the central philosophical questions concerning the nature of time.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00008I/2019-20
PHI00105I PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Brief details: The module aims to develop an understanding of the nature of our society and of our knowledge of it through philosophical examination of the social sciences.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00105I/2019-20
PHI00101I READING SARTRE Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of selected passages from Sartre’s work on existentialism.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00101I/2019-20
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Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00111I ENGAGING PHILOSOPHY II: PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY PODCASTS Brief details: In this module, you will investigate the philosophical aspects of an issue with ‘real-world’ social, political or ethical implications, working in a group to write and produce a podcast informing listeners of the philosophy behind the headlines.
2 Spring/ Summer Terms
Podcast 60% Podcast script 40%
10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00111I/2019-20
Summer Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00013I CAUSATION & LAWS Brief details: This module introduces the topics of causation, laws of nature and the relationship between these two subject matters of philosophical study.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00013I/2019-20
PHI00071I HEGEL Brief details: An introduction to Hegel’s philosophy through his Phenomenology of Spirit
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00071I/2019-20
PHI00102I LIES, BULLSHIT, PERVERSIONS AND PROPAGANDA
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/
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Brief details: This module looks at papers in philosophy of language and social epistemology which deal with assertion and implicature, testimony, and the dissemination of (dis)information for political purposes.
module-catalogue/module/PHI00102I/2019-20
PHI00108I READINGS IN THE ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Brief details: Artificial intelligence is forcing us to confront new ethical questions. How much control should we cede to AI systems, and what impact will they have on our moral lives?
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00108I/2019-20
PHI00106I READING WILLIAM JAMES Brief details: This module will involve close readings of articles and chapters by the philosopher and psychologist, William James.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00106I/2019-20
PHI00063I ROUSSEAU Brief details: This module provides students with an introduction to Rousseau’s philosophy through the close study of selections from his work
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00063I/2019-20
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English and Philosophy
Year (Stage) 2 (60 credits in Philosophy) Students may choose one of the following options:
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
English Module (20) English Module (20)
(English) Critical Practice* (20)
Philosophy Key Ideas Module
(20)
Philosophy Key Ideas Module (20) Philosophy Option Module (10)
Philosophy Option Module (10) in either Spring or Summer
* You may instead choose one 30 credit World Literature module in the Spring and Summer Term with one
10 credit Topic module in the Summer term and either Critical Practice (20 credits) or an Autumn term
module (20 credits)
MODULES AVAILABLE TO ENGLISH/PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS
Key Ideas Modules
Autumn Term 2019
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00091I
AESTHETICS Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the key issues and concepts in contemporary analytical aesthetics (philosophy of art), in relation to a range of art forms, including the visual arts, music, and literature.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00091I/2019-20
PHI00082I
ETHICAL THEORY Brief details: This module introduces some key issues in moral philosophy including: the concept of value; moral aggregation; population ethics; problems of co-operation, and the role of character ethics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00082I/2019-20
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PHI00081I
HUME’S EMPIRICISM Brief details: This module will introduce the key ideas in Hume’s philosophy, including, for example, impressions and ideas, causation, induction, external world scepticism, the self, liberty and necessity.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00081I/2019-20
PHI00096I
INTERMEDIATE LOGIC (Autumn and Spring) Brief details: The module aims to introduce students to formal logic, in contrast to Reason & Argument which focuses on the logic of natural languages.
50% Essay 50% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00096I/2019-20
PHI00073I
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Brief details: This module will investigate a range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in philosophy of language.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00073I/2019-20
PHI00077I
RATIONALISM: SPINOZA & LEIBNIZ Brief details: This module looks at Descartes’ discussion of substance, attribute, and the mind/body relationship along with responses found it the works of Spinoza and Leibniz.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00077I/2019-20
PHI00072I
RELIGIOUS ETHICS Brief details: This module considers questions about the relationship between God and morality
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00072I/2019-20
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Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00079I
APPLIED ETHICS Brief details: This module introduces students to a range of important debates in applied ethics, such as: global poverty, animal ethics, abortion, and euthanasia.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00079I/2019-20
PHI00066I
ARISTOTLE Brief details: This module introduces the key ideas in Aristotle’s philosophy, including, for example, his theory of substance and accident, hylomorphism, and efficient, formal, material and final causation.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00066I/2019-20
PHI00109I
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY Brief details: Feminist philosophers study issues in social and political philosophy, but also philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology. Are our conceptions of, for example, knowledge or value ‘gendered’ in problematic ways?
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00109I/2019-20
PHI00097I
KANT’S COPERNICAN REVOLUTION Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to Kant’s theoretical philosophy (his theory of knowledge and metaphysics).
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00097I/2019-20
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PHI00074I
METAPHYSICS Brief details: This module will develop students’ knowledge and understanding of a representative range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in metaphysics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00074I/2019-20
PHI00075I
NIETZSCHE Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to some key themes in Nietzsche’s philosophy
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00075I/2019-20
PHI00078I
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Brief details: This module will introduce central issues in the philosophy of mind, including: the metaphysics of mind (the mind-body problem), the epistemology of mind (knowledge of our own and others’ minds), intentionality and agency.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00078I/2019-20
PHI00080I
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Brief details: This module will introduce several key themes in contemporary philosophy of science.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00080I/2019-20
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Second Year 10-Credit Option Modules
Spring Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00008I PHILOSOPHY OF TIME Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the central philosophical questions concerning the nature of time.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00008I/2019-20
PHI00105I PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Brief details: The module aims to develop an understanding of the nature of our society and of our knowledge of it through philosophical examination of the social sciences.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00105I/2019-20
PHI00101I READING SARTRE Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of selected passages from Sartre’s work on existentialism.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00101I/2019-20
Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00111I ENGAGING PHILOSOPHY II: PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY PODCASTS Brief details: In this module, you will investigate the
2 Spring/ Summer Terms
Podcast 60% Podcast script 40%
10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00111I/2019-20
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philosophical aspects of an issue with ‘real-world’ social, political or ethical implications, working in a group to write and produce a podcast informing listeners of the philosophy behind the headlines.
Summer Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00013I CAUSATION & LAWS Brief details: This module introduces the topics of causation, laws of nature and the relationship between these two subject matters of philosophical study.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00013I/2019-20
PHI00071I HEGEL Brief details: An introduction to Hegel’s philosophy through his Phenomenology of Spirit
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00071I/2019-20
PHI00102I LIES, BULLSHIT, PERVERSIONS AND PROPAGANDA Brief details: This module looks at papers in philosophy of language and social epistemology which deal with assertion and implicature,
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00102I/2019-20
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testimony, and the dissemination of (dis)information for political purposes.
PHI00108I READINGS IN THE ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Brief details: Artificial intelligence is forcing us to confront new ethical questions. How much control should we cede to AI systems, and what impact will they have on our moral lives?
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00108I/2019-20
PHI00106I READING WILLIAM JAMES Brief details: This module will involve close readings of articles and chapters by the philosopher and psychologist, William James.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00106I/2019-20
PHI00063I ROUSSEAU Brief details: This module provides students with an introduction to Rousseau’s philosophy through the close study of selections from his work
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00063I/2019-20
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Philosophy and Linguistics
Year (Stage) 2 (60 credits in Philosophy)
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
Introduction to Language
Acquisition (20, core-
Linguistics)
One 20-credit Linguistics module. One further 20-credit
Linguistics module or a 20-credit elective module.
Philosophy of Language, (20,
core - Philosophy)
Key Ideas module (20, Philosophy)
Key Ideas module (20) in the spring term, or two 10-credit
options, each of which must be taken in a different term ie,
chosen from Autumn, Spring or Summer
MODULES AVAILABLE TO PHILOSOPHY/LINGUISTICS STUDENTS
Key Ideas Modules
Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00079I
APPLIED ETHICS Brief details: This module introduces students to a range of important debates in applied ethics, such as: global poverty, animal ethics, abortion, and euthanasia.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00079I/2019-20
PHI00066I
ARISTOTLE Brief details: This module introduces the key ideas in Aristotle’s philosophy, including, for example, his theory of substance and accident, hylomorphism, and efficient, formal, material and final causation.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00066I/2019-20
PHI00109I
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/stud
22
Brief details: Feminist philosophers study issues in social and political philosophy, but also philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology. Are our conceptions of, for example, knowledge or value ‘gendered’ in problematic ways?
ents/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00109I/2019-20
PHI00097I
KANT’S COPERNICAN REVOLUTION Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to Kant’s theoretical philosophy (his theory of knowledge and metaphysics).
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00097I/2019-20
PHI00074I
METAPHYSICS Brief details: This module will develop students’ knowledge and understanding of a representative range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in metaphysics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00074I/2019-20
PHI00075I
NIETZSCHE Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to some key themes in Nietzsche’s philosophy
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00075I/2019-20
PHI00078I
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Brief details: This module will introduce central issues in the philosophy of mind, including: the metaphysics of mind (the mind-body problem), the epistemology of mind (knowledge of our own and others’
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00078I/2019-20
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minds), intentionality and agency.
PHI00080I
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Brief details: This module will introduce several key themes in contemporary philosophy of science.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00080I/2019-20
Second Year 10-Credit Option Modules
Autumn Term 2019
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMEN
T
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00007I GOD AND MORALITY Brief details: This module investigates whether God must, or even can, provide a foundation for morality.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00007I/2019-20
PHI00042I IMAGINATION Brief details: This module examines the role of the imagination in epistemology, philosophy of mind and aesthetics from historical and contemporary perspectives.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00042I/2019-20
PHI00107I READING MARX Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of some of the key texts of Karl Marx, examining some of the most important elements of Marx'’ contribution to political philosophy.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00107I/2019-20
PHI00019I READING PLATO Brief details: This module will promote engagement with Plato’s ideas through close textual study of a Platonic dialogue.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00019I/2019-20
24
Spring Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00008I PHILOSOPHY OF TIME Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the central philosophical questions concerning the nature of time.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00008I/2019-20
PHI00105I PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Brief details: The module aims to develop an understanding of the nature of our society and of our knowledge of it through philosophical examination of the social sciences.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00105I/2019-20
PHI00101I READING SARTRE Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of selected passages from Sartre’s work on existentialism.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00101I/2019-20
25
Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00111I ENGAGING PHILOSOPHY II: PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY PODCASTS Brief details: In this module, you will investigate the philosophical aspects of an issue with ‘real-world’ social, political or ethical implications, working in a group to write and produce a podcast informing listeners of the philosophy behind the headlines.
2 Spring/ Summer Terms
Podcast 60% Podcast script 40%
10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00111I/2019-20
Summer Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00013I CAUSATION & LAWS Brief details: This module introduces the topics of causation, laws of nature and the relationship between these two subject matters of philosophical study.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00013I/2019-20
PHI00071I HEGEL Brief details: An introduction to Hegel’s philosophy through his Phenomenology of Spirit
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00071I/2019-20
PHI00102I LIES, BULLSHIT, PERVERSIONS AND PROPAGANDA Brief details: This module looks at papers in philosophy of language and social epistemology
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00102I/2019-20
26
which deal with assertion and implicature, testimony, and the dissemination of (dis)information for political purposes.
PHI00108I READINGS IN THE ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Brief details: Artificial intelligence is forcing us to confront new ethical questions. How much control should we cede to AI systems, and what impact will they have on our moral lives?
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00108I/2019-20
PHI00106I READING WILLIAM JAMES Brief details: This module will involve close readings of articles and chapters by the philosopher and psychologist, William James.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00106I/2019-20
PHI00063I ROUSSEAU Brief details: This module provides students with an introduction to Rousseau’s philosophy through the close study of selections from his work
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00063I/2019-20
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French/German and Philosophy
Year (Stage 2) (60 credits in Philosophy)
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
French/German Language and Society II (20, core French/German)
At least one French/German option module (20, French/German)
Linguistics option, French/German option module or Elective (20)
Philosophy of Language (20, core
Philosophy)
Key Ideas Module (20, Philosophy)
A further 20 credits of Philosophy made up of: a further Key Ideas Module (20), or one 10-credit option in the Spring Term and one 10-credit option in the Summer Term.
MODULES AVAILABLE TO FRENCH/GERMAN AND PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS
Key Ideas Modules
Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00079I
APPLIED ETHICS Brief details: This module introduces students to a range of important debates in applied ethics, such as: global poverty, animal ethics, abortion, and euthanasia.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00079I/2019-20
PHI00066I
ARISTOTLE Brief details: This module introduces the key ideas in Aristotle’s philosophy, including, for example, his theory of substance and accident, hylomorphism, and efficient, formal, material and final causation.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00066I/2019-20
PHI00109I
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY Brief details:
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/progr
28
Feminist philosophers study issues in social and political philosophy, but also philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology. Are our conceptions of, for example, knowledge or value ‘gendered’ in problematic ways?
ammes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00109I/2019-20
PHI00097I
KANT’S COPERNICAN REVOLUTION Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to Kant’s theoretical philosophy (his theory of knowledge and metaphysics).
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00097I/2019-20
PHI00074I
METAPHYSICS Brief details: This module will develop students’ knowledge and understanding of a representative range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in metaphysics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00074I/2019-20
PHI00075I
NIETZSCHE Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to some key themes in Nietzsche’s philosophy
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00075I/2019-20
PHI00078I
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Brief details: This module will introduce central issues in the philosophy of mind, including: the metaphysics of mind (the mind-body problem), the epistemology of mind (knowledge of our own and others’ minds),
intentionality and agency.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00078I/2019-20
29
PHI00080I
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Brief details: This module will introduce several key themes in contemporary philosophy of science.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00080I/2019-20
Second Year 10-Credit Option Modules
Spring Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00008I PHILOSOPHY OF TIME Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the central philosophical questions concerning the nature of time.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00008I/2019-20
PHI00105I PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Brief details: The module aims to develop an understanding of the nature of our society and of our knowledge of it through philosophical examination of the social sciences.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00105I/2019-20
PHI00101I READING SARTRE Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of selected passages from Sartre’s work on existentialism.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00101I/2019-20
30
Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00111I ENGAGING PHILOSOPHY II: PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY PODCASTS Brief details: In this module, you will investigate the philosophical aspects of an issue with ‘real-world’ social, political or ethical implications, working in a group to write and produce a podcast informing listeners of the philosophy behind the headlines.
2 Spring/ Summer Terms
Podcast 60% Podcast script 40%
10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00111I/2019-20
Summer Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00013I CAUSATION & LAWS Brief details: This module introduces the topics of causation, laws of nature and the relationship between these two subject matters of philosophical study.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00013I/2019-20
PHI00071I HEGEL Brief details: An introduction to Hegel’s philosophy through his Phenomenology of Spirit
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00071I/2019-20
PHI00102I LIES, BULLSHIT, PERVERSIONS AND PROPAGANDA Brief details: This module looks at papers in philosophy of language and
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00102I/2019-20
31
social epistemology which deal with assertion and implicature, testimony, and the dissemination of (dis)information for political purposes.
PHI00108I READINGS IN THE ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Brief details: Artificial intelligence is forcing us to confront new ethical questions. How much control should we cede to AI systems, and what impact will they have on our moral lives?
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00108I/2019-20
PHI00106I READING WILLIAM JAMES Brief details: This module will involve close readings of articles and chapters by the philosopher and psychologist, William James.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00106I/2019-20
PHI00063I ROUSSEAU Brief details: This module provides students with an introduction to Rousseau’s philosophy through the close study of selections from his work.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00063I/2019-20
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History and Philosophy
Year (Stage) 2 (60 credits in Philosophy)
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
Histories and Contexts (20-credit History option)
Explorations (30-credit History option)
Using Primary Material (10-credit Core History Module)
Philosophy Key Ideas (20 credits)
Philosophy Key Ideas (20 Credits) 2x Philosophy Options
(10 credits each)
MODULES AVAILABLE TO HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS
Key Ideas Modules
Autumn Term 2019
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00091I
AESTHETICS Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the key issues and concepts in contemporary analytical aesthetics (philosophy of art), in relation to a range of art forms, including the visual arts, music, and literature.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00091I/2019-20
PHI00082I
ETHICAL THEORY Brief details: This module introduces some key issues in moral philosophy including: the concept of value; moral aggregation; population ethics; problems of co-operation, and the role of character ethics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00082I/2019-20
PHI00081I
HUME’S EMPIRICISM Brief details: This module will introduce the key ideas in Hume’s
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00081I/20
33
philosophy, including, for example, impressions and ideas, causation, induction, external world scepticism, the self, liberty and necessity.
19-20
PHI00096I
INTERMEDIATE LOGIC (Autumn and Spring) Brief details: The module aims to introduce students to formal logic, in contrast to Reason & Argument which focuses on the logic of natural languages.
50% Essay 50% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00096I/2019-20
PHI00073I
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Brief details: This module will investigate a range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in philosophy of language.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00073I/2019-20
PHI00077I
RATIONALISM: SPINOZA & LEIBNIZ Brief details: This module looks at Descartes’ discussion of substance, attribute, and the mind/body relationship along with responses found it the works of Spinoza and Leibniz.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00077I/2019-20
PHI00072I
RELIGIOUS ETHICS Brief details: This module considers questions about the relationship between God and morality
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00072I/2019-20
34
Spring/Summer Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00079I
APPLIED ETHICS Brief details: This module introduces students to a range of important debates in applied ethics, such as: global poverty, animal ethics, abortion, and euthanasia.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00079I/2019-20
PHI00066I
ARISTOTLE Brief details: This module introduces the key ideas in Aristotle’s philosophy, including, for example, his theory of substance and accident, hylomorphism, and efficient, formal, material and final causation.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00066I/2019-20
PHI00109I
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY Brief details: Feminist philosophers study issues in social and political philosophy, but also philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology. Are our conceptions of, for example, knowledge or value ‘gendered’ in problematic ways?
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00109I/2019-20
PHI00097I
KANT’S COPERNICAN REVOLUTION Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to Kant’s theoretical philosophy (his theory of knowledge and metaphysics).
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00097I/2019-20
35
PHI00074I
METAPHYSICS Brief details: This module will develop students’ knowledge and understanding of a representative range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in metaphysics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00074I/2019-20
PHI00075I
NIETZSCHE Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to some key themes in Nietzsche’s philosophy
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00075I/2019-20
PHI00078I
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Brief details: This module will introduce central issues in the philosophy of mind, including: the metaphysics of mind (the mind-body problem), the epistemology of mind (knowledge of our own and others’ minds), intentionality and agency.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00078I/2019-20
PHI00080I
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Brief details: This module will introduce several key themes in contemporary philosophy of science.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00080I/2019-20
Second Year 10-Credit Option Modules
Summer Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00013I CAUSATION & LAWS Brief details: This module introduces the topics
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-
36
of causation, laws of nature and the relationship between these two subject matters of philosophical study.
catalogue/module/PHI00013I/2019-20
PHI00071I HEGEL Brief details: An introduction to Hegel’s philosophy through his Phenomenology of Spirit
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00071I/2019-20
PHI00102I LIES, BULLSHIT, PERVERSIONS AND PROPAGANDA Brief details: This module looks at papers in philosophy of language and social epistemology which deal with assertion and implicature, testimony, and the dissemination of (dis)information for political purposes.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00102I/2019-20
PHI00108I READINGS IN THE ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Brief details: Artificial intelligence is forcing us to confront new ethical questions. How much control should we cede to AI systems, and what impact will they have on our moral lives?
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00108I/2019-20
PHI00106I READING WILLIAM JAMES Brief details: This module will involve close readings of articles and chapters by the philosopher and psychologist, William James.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00106I/2019-20
37
PHI00063I ROUSSEAU Brief details: This module provides students with an introduction to Rousseau’s philosophy through the close study of selections from his work.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00063I/2019-20
Mathematics and Philosophy
Year (Stage) 2 (60 credits in Philosophy)
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
Linear Algebra (10, core)
Vector Calculus (10, core)
Pure Mathematics (40, core)
Key Ideas Intermediate Logic (20, core Philosophy)
Either PHI00074I Key Ideas Metaphysics (20) or PHI00080I Key Ideas Philosophy of Science (20)
A further Philosophy Key Ideas module (20), or two 10-credit options, each of which must be taken in a different term
MODULES AVAILABLE TO MATHS AND PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS
Key Ideas Modules
Spring/Summer Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00079I
APPLIED ETHICS Brief details: This module introduces students to a range of important debates in applied ethics, such as: global poverty, animal ethics, abortion, and euthanasia.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00079I/2019-20
PHI00066I
ARISTOTLE Brief details: This module introduces the key ideas in Aristotle’s philosophy, including, for example, his theory of substance and accident, hylomorphism, and
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00066I/2019-20
38
efficient, formal, material and final causation.
PHI00109I
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY Brief details: Feminist philosophers study issues in social and political philosophy, but also philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology. Are our conceptions of, for example, knowledge or value ‘gendered’ in problematic ways?
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00109I/2019-20
PHI00097I
KANT’S COPERNICAN REVOLUTION Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to Kant’s theoretical philosophy (his theory of knowledge and metaphysics).
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00097I/2019-20
PHI00074I
METAPHYSICS Brief details: This module will develop students’ knowledge and understanding of a representative range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in metaphysics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00074I/2019-20
PHI00075I
NIETZSCHE Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to some key themes in Nietzsche’s philosophy
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00075I/2019-20
PHI00078I
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Brief details: This module will introduce central issues in the philosophy of mind, including: the metaphysics of mind
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00078I/2019-20
39
(the mind-body problem), the epistemology of mind (knowledge of our own and others’ minds), intentionality and agency.
PHI00080I
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Brief details: This module will introduce several key themes in contemporary philosophy of science.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00080I/2019-20
Second Year 10-Credit Option Modules
Spring Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00008I PHILOSOPHY OF TIME Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the central philosophical questions concerning the nature of time.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00008I/2019-20
PHI00105I PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Brief details: The module aims to develop an understanding of the nature of our society and of our knowledge of it through philosophical examination of the social sciences.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00105I/2019-20
PHI00101I READING SARTRE Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of selected passages from Sartre’s work on existentialism.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00101I/2019-20
40
Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00111I ENGAGING PHILOSOPHY II: PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY PODCASTS Brief details: In this module, you will investigate the philosophical aspects of an issue with ‘real-world’ social, political or ethical implications, working in a group to write and produce a podcast informing listeners of the philosophy behind the headlines.
2 Spring/ Summer Terms
Podcast 60% Podcast script 40%
10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00111I/2019-20
Summer Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00013I CAUSATION & LAWS Brief details: This module introduces the topics of causation, laws of nature and the relationship between these two subject matters of philosophical study.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00013I/2019-20
PHI00071I HEGEL Brief details: An introduction to Hegel’s philosophy through his Phenomenology of Spirit
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00071I/2019-20
PHI00102I LIES, BULLSHIT, PERVERSIONS AND PROPAGANDA Brief details: This module looks at
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI
41
papers in philosophy of language and social epistemology which deal with assertion and implicature, testimony, and the dissemination of (dis)information for political purposes.
00102I/2019-20
PHI00108I READINGS IN THE ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Brief details: Artificial intelligence is forcing us to confront new ethical questions. How much control should we cede to AI systems, and what impact will they have on our moral lives?
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00108I/2019-20
PHI00106I READING WILLIAM JAMES Brief details: This module will involve close readings of articles and chapters by the philosopher and psychologist, William James.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00106I/2019-20
PHI00063I ROUSSEAU Brief details: This module provides students with an introduction to Rousseau’s philosophy through the close study of selections from his work
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00063I/2019-20
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Philosophy and Sociology
Year (Stage 2) (60 credits in Philosophy)
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
SOCIOLOGY: Either, Social Research Methods (30 Credits), if intending to do a dissertation at stage 3, plus a further 30-credit option, or two 30-credit modules.
Philosophy Key Ideas Module (20 credits)
Philosophy Key Ideas Module (20 credits)
2 x Philosophy Option* Modules (10 credits each)
*Option modules could be taken in the Autumn and Spring Terms but only with the permission of the
Chair of the Philosophy Board of Studies.
MODULES AVAILABLE TO PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS
Key Ideas Modules
Autumn Term 2019
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00091I
AESTHETICS Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the key issues and concepts in contemporary analytical aesthetics (philosophy of art), in relation to a range of art forms, including the visual arts, music, and literature.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00091I/2019-20
PHI00082I
ETHICAL THEORY Brief details: This module introduces some key issues in moral philosophy including: the concept of value; moral aggregation; population ethics; problems of co-operation, and the role of character ethics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00082I/2019-20
PHI00081I
HUME’S EMPIRICISM Brief details: This module will
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/
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introduce the key ideas in Hume’s philosophy, including, for example, impressions and ideas, causation, induction, external world scepticism, the self, liberty and necessity.
module-catalogue/module/PHI00081I/2019-20
PHI00096I
INTERMEDIATE LOGIC (Autumn and Spring) Brief details: The module aims to introduce students to formal logic, in contrast to Reason & Argument which focuses on the logic of natural languages.
50% Essay 50% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00096I/2019-20
PHI00073I
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Brief details: This module will investigate a range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in philosophy of language.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00073I/2019-20
PHI00077I
RATIONALISM: SPINOZA & LEIBNIZ Brief details: This module looks at Descartes’ discussion of substance, attribute, and the mind/body relationship along with responses found it the works of Spinoza and Leibniz.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00077I/2019-20
PHI00072I
RELIGIOUS ETHICS Brief details: This module considers questions about the relationship between God and morality
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00072I/2019-20
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Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00079I
APPLIED ETHICS Brief details: This module introduces students to a range of important debates in applied ethics, such as: global poverty, animal ethics, abortion, and euthanasia.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00079I/2019-20
PHI00066I
ARISTOTLE Brief details: This module introduces the key ideas in Aristotle’s philosophy, including, for example, his theory of substance and accident, hylomorphism, and efficient, formal, material and final causation.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00066I/2019-20
PHI00109I
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY Brief details: Feminist philosophers study issues in social and political philosophy, but also philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology. Are our conceptions of, for example, knowledge or value ‘gendered’ in problematic ways?
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00109I/2019-20
PHI00097I
KANT’S COPERNICAN REVOLUTION Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to Kant’s theoretical philosophy (his theory of knowledge and metaphysics).
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00097I/2019-20
PHI00074I
METAPHYSICS Brief details:
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/stude
45
This module will develop students’ knowledge and understanding of a representative range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in metaphysics.
nts/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00074I/2019-20
PHI00075I
NIETZSCHE Brief details: This module will provide an introduction to some key themes in Nietzsche’s philosophy
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00075I/2019-20
PHI00078I
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Brief details: This module will introduce central issues in the philosophy of mind, including: the metaphysics of mind (the mind-body problem), the epistemology of mind (knowledge of our own and others’ minds), intentionality and agency.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00078I/2019-20
PHI00080I
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Brief details: This module will introduce several key themes in contemporary philosophy of science.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00080I/2019-20
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Second Year 10-Credit Option Modules
Autumn Term 2019
(A module from this group may only be taken with the approval of the Philosophy Chair of Board of Studies)
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMEN
T
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00007I GOD AND MORALITY Brief details: This module investigates whether God must, or even can, provide a foundation for morality.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00007I/2019-20
PHI00042I IMAGINATION Brief details: This module examines the role of the imagination in epistemology, philosophy of mind and aesthetics from historical and contemporary perspectives.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00042I/2019-20
PHI00107I READING MARX Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of some of the key texts of Karl Marx, examining some of the most important elements of Marx'’ contribution to political philosophy.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00107I/2019-20
PHI00019I READING PLATO Brief details: This module will promote engagement with Plato’s ideas through close textual study of a Platonic dialogue.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00019I/2019-20
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Spring Term 2020
(A module from this group may only be taken with the approval of the Philosophy Chair of Board of Studies)
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00008I PHILOSOPHY OF TIME Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the central philosophical questions concerning the nature of time.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00008I/2019-20
PHI00105I PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Brief details: The module aims to develop an understanding of the nature of our society and of our knowledge of it through philosophical examination of the social sciences.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00105I/2019-20
PHI00101I READING SARTRE Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of selected passages from Sartre’s work on existentialism.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00101I/2019-20
Spring/Summer Terms 2020
(This module may only be taken with the approval of the Philosophy Chair of Board of Studies)
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00111I ENGAGING PHILOSOPHY II: PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY PODCASTS
2 Spring/ Summer Terms
Podcast 60% Podcast script 40%
10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-
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Brief details: In this module, you will investigate the philosophical aspects of an issue with ‘real-world’ social, political or ethical implications, working in a group to write and produce a podcast informing listeners of the philosophy behind the headlines.
catalogue/module/PHI00111I/2019-20
Summer Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00013I CAUSATION & LAWS Brief details: This module introduces the topics of causation, laws of nature and the relationship between these two subject matters of philosophical study.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00013I/2019-20
PHI00071I HEGEL Brief details: An introduction to Hegel’s philosophy through his Phenomenology of Spirit
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00071I/2019-20
PHI00102I LIES, BULLSHIT, PERVERSIONS AND PROPAGANDA Brief details: This module looks at papers in philosophy of language and
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00102I/2019-20
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social epistemology which deal with assertion and implicature, testimony, and the dissemination of (dis)information for political purposes.
PHI00108I READINGS IN THE ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Brief details: Artificial intelligence is forcing us to confront new ethical questions. How much control should we cede to AI systems, and what impact will they have on our moral lives?
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00108I/2019-20
PHI00106I READING WILLIAM JAMES Brief details: This module will involve close readings of articles and chapters by the philosopher and psychologist, William James.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00106I/2019-20
PHI00063I ROUSSEAU Brief details: This module provides students with an introduction to Rousseau’s philosophy through the close study of selections from his work
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00063I/2019-20
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Physics with Philosophy 3 Year BSc and Physics with Philosophy 4 year MPhys
Year (Stage 2) (40 credits in Philosophy) Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
Lagrangian Mechanics and Solid State Physics (20 credits, core) Electromagnetism and Fourier Optics (20 credits, core)
Quantum Physics I: Quantum Mechanics, Atomic Physics and Lasers (20 credits, core) Mathematics II (10 credits, core) Mathematics III (10 credits, core)
Key Ideas Philosophy of Science (20 credits, core)
Either Philosophy Key Ideas module in the Autumn Term (20 credits) or Key Ideas (short) taken in the Autumn Term (10) and one Option module in any term or elective or LFA module
MODULES AVAILABLE TO PHYSICS WITH PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS
Key Ideas Modules
Autumn Term 2019
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME ASSESSMENT
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00091I
AESTHETICS Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the key issues and concepts in contemporary analytical aesthetics (philosophy of art), in relation to a range of art forms, including the visual arts, music, and literature.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00091I/2019-20
PHI00067I AESTHETICS (SHORT) Details as above
100% Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00067I/2019-20
PHI00082I
ETHICAL THEORY Brief details: This module introduces some key issues in moral philosophy including: the concept of value; moral aggregation; population ethics; problems of co-operation, and the role of character ethics.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00082I/2019-20
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PHI00083I ETHICAL THEORY (SHORT) Details as above
100% Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00083I/2019-20
PHI00081I
HUME’S EMPIRICISM Brief details: This module will introduce the key ideas in Hume’s philosophy, including, for example, impressions and ideas, causation, induction, external world scepticism, the self, liberty and necessity.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00081I/2019-20
PHI00096I
INTERMEDIATE LOGIC (Autumn and Spring) Brief details: The module aims to introduce students to formal logic, in contrast to Reason & Argument which focuses on the logic of natural languages.
50% Essay 50% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00096I/2019-20
PHI00095I INTERMEDIATE LOGIC (SHORT) Autumn only Details as above
100% Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00095I/2019-20
PHI00073I
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Brief details: This module will investigate a range of key puzzles, problems, issues, and debates in philosophy of language.
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00073I/2019-20
PHI00086I PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE (SHORT) Details as above
100% Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00086I/2019-20
PHI00077I
RATIONALISM: SPINOZA & LEIBNIZ Brief details: This module looks at Descartes’ discussion of substance, attribute, and the mind/body
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00077I/2019-20
52
relationship along with responses found it the works of Spinoza and Leibniz.
PHI00072I
RELIGIOUS ETHICS Brief details: This module considers questions about the relationship between God and morality
70% Essay 30% Exam
20 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00072I/2019-20
PHI00094I RELIGIOUS ETHICS (SHORT) Details as above
100% Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00094I/2019-20
Second Year 10-Credit Option Modules
Autumn Term 2019
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMEN
T
CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00007I GOD AND MORALITY Brief details: This module investigates whether God must, or even can, provide a foundation for morality.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00007I/2019-20
PHI00042I IMAGINATION Brief details: This module examines the role of the imagination in epistemology, philosophy of mind and aesthetics from historical and contemporary perspectives.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00042I/2019-20
PHI00107I READING MARX Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of some of the key texts of Karl Marx, examining some of the most important elements of Marx'’ contribution to political philosophy.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00107I/2019-20
PHI00019I READING PLATO Brief details:
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/
53
This module will promote engagement with Plato’s ideas through close textual study of a Platonic dialogue.
manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00019I/2019-20
Spring Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00008I PHILOSOPHY OF TIME Brief details: This module will introduce students to some of the central philosophical questions concerning the nature of time.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00008I/2019-20
PHI00105I PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Brief details: The module aims to develop an understanding of the nature of our society and of our knowledge of it through philosophical examination of the social sciences.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00105I/2019-20
PHI00101I READING SARTRE Brief details: This module will provide a close reading of selected passages from Sartre’s work on existentialism.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00101I/2019-20
54
Spring/Summer Terms 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00111I ENGAGING PHILOSOPHY II: PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY PODCASTS Brief details: In this module, you will investigate the philosophical aspects of an issue with ‘real-world’ social, political or ethical implications, working in a group to write and produce a podcast informing listeners of the philosophy behind the headlines.
2 Spring/ Summer Terms
Podcast 60% Podcast script 40%
10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00111I/2019-20
Summer Term 2020
MODULE CODE
MODULE NAME YEAR ASSESSMENT CREDITS LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS
PHI00013I CAUSATION & LAWS Brief details: This module introduces the topics of causation, laws of nature and the relationship between these two subject matters of philosophical study.
2 Exam 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00013I/2019-20
PHI00071I HEGEL Brief details: An introduction to Hegel’s philosophy through his Phenomenology of Spirit
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00071I/2019-20
55
PHI00102I LIES, BULLSHIT, PERVERSIONS AND PROPAGANDA Brief details: This module looks at papers in philosophy of language and social epistemology which deal with assertion and implicature, testimony, and the dissemination of (dis)information for political purposes.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00102I/2019-20
PHI00108I READINGS IN THE ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Brief details: Artificial intelligence is forcing us to confront new ethical questions. How much control should we cede to AI systems, and what impact will they have on our moral lives?
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00108I/2019-20
PHI00106I READING WILLIAM JAMES Brief details: This module will involve close readings of articles and chapters by the philosopher and psychologist, William James.
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00106I/2019-20
PHI00063I ROUSSEAU Brief details: This module provides students with an introduction to
2 Essay 10 https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00063I/2019-20
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Rousseau’s philosophy through the close study of selections from his work