Philosophy Undergraduate Modules 2022-23

The module details in this section are only applicable to students who will be studying them between September 2022 and August 2023.

If you wish to look at details for a module you studied in an earlier academic year please see undergraduate modules for other academic years.

Information for Inbound Exchange Students

Please note that inbound study abroad students studying in Exeter/Penryn for one semester only can only choose from modules that are running in either Term 1 or Term 2. You are not able to choose modules that run in Terms '1 and 2' as these modules run for the full year.

Level One

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
PHL1002A	Knowledge and Reality 1	15	1
PHL1002B	Knowledge and Reality 2	15	2
PHL1004	Philosophical Problems 1	15	2
PHL1005A	Evidence and Argument 1	15	1
PHL1006	Introduction to Philosophical Analysis	15	2
PHL1007	Philosophical Reading 1	15	1
PHL1008	Philosophical Reading 2	15	2
PHL1009	Philosophies of Art	15	1
PHL1010	Introduction to Asian Philosophy	15	1
PHL1013	Philosophy of Morality	15	2
PHL1016	Introduction to Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence	15	1

Interdisciplinary Modules at Level One

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)

Q Step and College Modules at Level One

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SSI1005	Introduction to Social Data	15	1
SSI1006	Data Analysis in Social Science 1	15	2
SSI1007	Introduction to Data Analytics in R or Python		1, 2 and 3
SSI1008	Introduction to Data Analytics in Microsoft Excel		1, 2 and 3

Level Two

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
PHL2001	Phenomenology	15	2
PHL2002	Existentialism	15	2
PHL2010A	Philosophy of Mind 1	15	2
PHL2011A	The Philosophy of Nature 1	15	2
PHL2015	Body and Mind	15	2
PHL2016	Metaphysics	15	2
PHL2018	Philosophy of Language	15	1
PHL2020	Virtues and Vices	15	2
PHL2022	Sex and Death: Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology	15	2
PHL2026	Philosophy of Science	15	2
PHL2038	The Self	15	1
PHL2040	Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Communicative Capitalism	15	1
PHL2041	Feminist Philosophy: Gender, Race and Class	15	1
PHL2042	Philosophical Frontiers	15	2
PHL2045	Aesthetics	15	2
PHL2046A	The Holocaust, Genocide and Society	30	1 and 2
PHL2052	Epistemology	15	2
PHL2053	History of Philosophy	15	1
PHL2054	Philosophy of Psychiatry	15	1
PHL2056	The Nature of Normativity	15	1
PHL2061	Philosophy of Law	15	1
PHL2096	Cyborg Studies	15	1
PHL2110	Philosophy of Emotion	30	1 and 2
PHL2111	The Deep Past, History and Humanity	15	1
PHL2112	Practical Ethics	15	1
PHL2114	Aristotle's Ethics	15	2
PHL2116	Reality, Existence and Change	15	2
PHL2117	Philosophy and Psychedelics	15	2
PHL2118	Moral agency in social context	15	1
PHL2119	Animal Minds and Animal Ethics	15	2
PHL2120	Philosophy and Sociology of Race	15	1
PHL2122	Data, Experiments, and Society	15	1
PHL2123	Philosophy of Medicine	15	2
PHL2124	Social Epistemology	15	2
PHL2125	Ethics of Emerging Technologies	15	2
PHL2126	Mind and World in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy	15	1
PHL2127	Hidden Voices in Early Modern Philosophy	15	1

Interdisciplinary Modules at Level Two

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SPA2001	Debates, Issues and Practices	15	2
SPA2002	Quantitative Research with Microsoft Excel	15	1

Q Step and College Modules at Level Two

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SSI2001	Learning from Work Experience in Social Sciences	15	1 and 2
SSI2002	Data Analysis in the Workplace	15	2
SSI2004	Research Design in the Social Sciences	15	2
SSI2005	Data Analysis in Social Science 2	15	1
SSI2006	Immigration in Western Societies	15	1
SSI2007	Data Analysis in Social Science 3	15	1

Level Three

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
PHL3001	Phenomenology	15	2
PHL3002	Existentialism	15	2
PHL3013	Virtues and Vices	15	1
PHL3014	Symbolic Logic	15	2
PHL3018	Sex and Death: Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology	15	2
PHL3026	Philosophy of Science	15	2
PHL3038	The Self	15	1
PHL3040	Philosophy Dissertation	30	1 and 2
PHL3045	Aesthetics	15	2
PHL3046A	The Holocaust, Genocide and Society	30	1 and 2
PHL3052	Epistemology	15	2
PHL3053	History of Philosophy	15	1
PHL3054	Philosophy of Psychiatry	15	1
PHL3056	The Nature of Normativity	15	1
PHL3061	Philosophy of Law	15	1
PHL3077	Bioethics: DNA-technologies, Ethics and Human Identity	15	1
PHL3078	Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Communicative Capitalism	15	2
PHL3079	Feminist Philosophy: Gender, Race and Class	15	1
PHL3080	Philosophical Frontiers	15	2
PHL3096	Cyborg Studies	15	1
PHL3110	Philosophy of Emotion	30	1 and 2
PHL3111	The Deep Past, History and Humanity	15	1
PHL3112	Ecology, Environment and Conservation	15	2
PHL3113	Practical Ethics	15	1
PHL3116	Reality, Existence and Change	15	2
PHL3117	Philosophy and Psychedelics	15	2
PHL3118	Animal Minds and Animal Ethics	15	2
PHL3119	Philosophy and Sociology of Race	15	1
PHL3121	Data, Experiments, and Society	15	1
PHL3122	Philosophy of Medicine	15	2
PHL3123	Social Epistemology	15	2
PHL3124	Ethics of Emerging Technologies	15	2
PHL3125	Mind and World in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy	15	1
PHL3126	Hidden Voices in Early Modern Philosophy	15	1

Interdisciplinary Modules at Level Three

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SPA3001	Debates, Issues and Practices	15	2
SPA3002	Quantitative Research with Microsoft Excel	15	1

Q Step and College Modules at Level Three

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SSI3002	Immigration in Western Societies	15	1
SSI3003	Data Analysis in Social Science 3	15	1
SSI3017	Learning from Work Experience in the Social Sciences	15	1 and 2
SSI3019	Quantitative Dissertation	30	1 and 2
SSI3020	Employment Experience (UK and Abroad)	120	1, 2 and 3
SSI3999	Year Abroad	120	1 and 2