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Content

Philosophy is the study of argument and its application to a wide variety of questions of fundamental importance to human life and intellectual activity. Philosophers attempt to answer questions such as: What is knowledge? What is the nature of truth? Could the existence of God be proved? A degree in Philosophy is taught via a selection of compulsory and optional courses to enhance your learning and prepare you for a future career or further study.

Year 1: Experience, Knowledge and Reality; Controversial Questions; How Should One Live?

Year 2: Gender Equality; What We Are: Mind in a Physical World; Metaphysics, Epistemology and Language; Facts and Values.

Year 3: 90 credit points of level 3 Philosophy courses (a broad range of options including Philosophy of Time; Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason; Scepticism; Free Will and Moral Responsibility); 30 credits from courses of choice.

Year 4: Philosophy Dissertation; 60 credit points from courses of choice (a broad range of options including Sex, Race and Disability; Ancient Ethics; Metaphysics of Possibility; Knowledge, Power and Society).

Entry Requirements

2026 entry requirements:

Standard entry:
4 Highers at BBBB plus English at National 5.

For second year entry you would require the above plus 2 Advanced Highers at AB including a relevant subject.

Widening access entry:
3 Highers at BBC plus English at National 5.

1 Foundation Apprenticeship is accepted in place of a Higher.