Junior Freshman
Year convener: Professor Paul O'Grady (email)
All courses run for both terms. There are four courses in the JF year (SHP students take all four; TSM and PPES students take only PI1001 and PI1002). The courses in the JF year are as follows:
- PI1001 Central Problems in Philosophy
- PI1002 History of Philosophy I
- PI1003 Topics in Philosophy I
- PI1004 Topics in Philosophy II
All courses comprise two lectures per week.
All students, whether single or joint honours, meet for weekly tutorials with departmental teaching assistants. During Michaelmas and Hilary terms the tutorial weeks are 2–12 and 1–12 respectively. There are no lectures or tutorials during the reading weeks.
All courses consist of four course components with 11 lectures (over five and a half weeks) each. There are two hours of lectures per week per course. Each course component covers a single coherent theme or topic (e.g. The Mind–Body Problem, or The Empiricists) and is usually taught by the same lecturer.
Part of the assessment for each course will be by means of essays that are marked by the course teaching assistants.
The examination for each course takes place at the end of the academic year, during April and May. The rubric for the examination paper will nearly always contain sections that reflect the components that make up each of the above courses.