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University of London Diploma and BA in Philosophy
required, further and optional modules

[The following information is taken from the University of London Prospectus Undergraduate Study in the Humanities]

BA Philosophy

All BA students take the following modules:

Logic
Epistemology
Greek philosophy: The Pre-Socratics and Plato
Ethics: historical perspectives
Modern philosophy: Descartes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume

Plus three further modules from the following:

Metaphysics
Methodology
Greek philosophy: Aristotle
Ethics: contemporary perspectives
Modern philosophy: Spinoza, Leibniz and Kant

Plus two optional modules from the following:

Continental philosophy from Hegel
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of Kant
The philosophies of Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein
Political philosophy
Aesthetics
Symbolic logic
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of religion
Post-Aristotelian philosophy
Medieval philosophy
Indian philosophy
Philosophy of mathematics


Diploma in Philosophy

All students take:

Introduction to Philosophy

Plus three further modules from the following:

Logic
Epistemology
Greek philosophy: the Pre-Socratics and Plato
Ethics: historical perspectives
Modern philosophy: Descartes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume