Undergraduate Module Outlines
Below are Module Outlines for Undergraduate Philosophy 2026/27
Please note: While the modules and module descriptors are set out below as accurately as possible, additions or removals of available modules, and changes of module content, instructors, and assessment procedures are often unavoidable between now and the start of the 2026/27 academic year because of changes in staff availability, resource constraints, and other pressures. Thank you for your understanding.
Junior Freshman
- PIU11011: Topics in Philosophy I A (10 ECTS)
- PIU11041: Topics in Philosophy I A (Columbia Dual BA) (5 ECTS)
- PIU11012: Topics in Philosophy II B (10 ECTS)
- PIU11042: Topics in Philosophy II B (Columbia Dual BA) (10 ECTS)
- PIU11013: Topics in Philosophy II A (5 ECTS)
- PIU11014: Topics in Philosophy I B (5 ECTS)
- PIU11021: Central Problems in Philosophy A (10 ECTS)
- PIU11023: Central Problems in Philosophy A (5 ECTS)
- PIU11022: Central Problems in Philosophy B (5 ECTS)
- PIU11053: History of Philosophy I A (5 ECTS)
- PIU11052: History of Philosophy I B (10 ECTS)
- PIU11054: History of Philosophy I B (5 ECTS)
Senior Freshman
- PIU22023: Logic (5 ECTS)
- PIU22032: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (5 ECTS)
- PIU22061: Texts I (10 ECTS)
- PIU22062: Texts II (10 ECTS)
- PIU22073: History of Philosophy II A (5 ECTS)
- PIU22074: History of Philosophy II B (5 ECTS)
- PIU22991: History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Science 1 (5 ECTS)
- PIU22992: History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Science 2 (5 ECTS)
Junior Sophister
- PIU33012: Topics in Ancient Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU33014: Topics in Ancient Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU33021: Moral Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU33023: Moral Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU33041: Logic and Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU33043: Logic and Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU33052: Topics in Modern European Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU33054: Topics in Modern European Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU33062: Metaphysics (10 ECTS)
- PIU33064: Metaphysics (5 ECTS)
- PIU33071: Political Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU33073: Political Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU33173: Political Philosophy (Political Science students only)
- PIU33081: Philosophy of Mind (10 ECTS)
- PIU33083: Philosophy of Mind (5 ECTS)
- PIU33112: Metaethics (10 ECTS)
- PIU33114: Metaethics (5 ECTS)
Senior Sophister
- PIU44011: Ancient Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU44013: Ancient Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU44041: Metaphsyics (10 ECTS)
- PIU44043: Metaphsyics (5 ECTS)
- PIU44052: Neurophilosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU44054: Neurophilosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU44092: Post Kantian Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU44094: Post Kantian Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU44100: Capstone Philosophy
- PIU44102: Theories of Rights (10 ECTS)
- PIU44104: Theories of Rights (5 ECTS)
- PIU44114: Theories of Rights ( 5 ECTS) - Political Science
- PIU44121: Self-Refutation Arguments (10 ECTS)
- PIU44123: Self-Refutation Arguments (5 ECTS)
- PIU44191: Philosophy of Religion: The Islamic Perspective (10 ECTS)
- PIU44192: The Ethics of Group Action (10 ECTS)
- PIU44194: The Ethics of Group Action (5 ECTS)
- PIU44201: Literature Review (Columbia Dual BA)
- PIU44202: Philosophy of Mind and Action (10 ECTS)
- PIU44204: Philosophy of Mind and Action (5 ECTS)
- PIU44211: Contemporary Idealism (10 ECTS)
- PIU44213: Contemporary Idealism (5 ECTS)