PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy investigates the big questions of life - it is highly sought after because of the critical thinking skills developed - especially in a time when people are losing these skills to AI overuse. Philosophy means 'the love of wisdom' and looks at a wide area of subjects - asking questions about the fundamentals of reality. For example you could study: epistemology, ethics and metaethics, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, political philosophy, and logic and linguistics just to name a few. You can specialise in specific modules you find interesting.
SOME INFORMATION:
Books
- Think
- Philosophy: The Basics
- Philosophy: The Classics
- Philosopher Queens
- 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
- The Righteous Mind
- Gender Trouble
- Meditations
- The Problems of Philosophy
- A History of Western Philosophy
- Of Grammatology
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
- Being Good
- The View From Nowhere
- What We Owe The Future
- Rights of Man
- The Philosophy Gym
- Free Will
- The Mind-Body Problem
- Fear and Trembling
- The Puzzle of God
- The Puzzle of Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- The Brothers Karamazov
- How The World Thinks
- The History of Philosophy: Three Millennia of Thought From the West and Beyond
Lectures and talks
SOAS – World Philosophies Taster Lecture
University of Oxford – Series of lecture on General Philosophy
(Miss Fitzgerald highly recommends Peter Millican – he was her lecturer!)
Yale University – Series of lectures on Political Philosophy
University of Oxford – Metaphysics and Epistemology Lecture
Alistair McGrath Gresham College Lecture – “Many Maps, Many Windows: The Philosophy of Mary Midgley.”
Plato – Gresham College Lecture
University of Birmingham Taster Lecture – The Trolley Problem
Harvard University – Justice: What’s the right thing to do? The Moral Side of Murder
Podcasts
Websites
Competitions