Undergraduate Study in the Department of Philosophy

The Philosophy department specialises in several areas of philosophical research and teaching

• The history of philosophy: classical Greek philosophy, early modern philosophy including Descartes, Spinoza, modern philosophy including Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, the phenomenological tradition, the analytic tradition, and Wittgenstein.
• Logic, epistemology and metaphysics: philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, pragmatism.
• Philosophy of the physical sciences: time and the conceptual foundations of quantum mehcanics.
• Philosophy of mind: Cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology.
• Moral, social and political philosophy: history of political throught, contemporary normative political philosophy, feminist theory, theories of modernity, critical theory.

The Department also offers a challenging fourth year Honours program after the pass degree has been completed. The central aim of the Honours year is the completion of a research thesis; seminars are also undertaken to complement the research project. Interested students should look at the Honours link on this page for further details.

Students are encouraged to keep referring to this page for regular updates and information regarding their units of study.