Education: A-Z of Degrees - Philosophy ; Our Weekly Series Designed to Help You Pick the Right Course. This Week: Philosophy

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What do you come out with? BA

Why do it? To find out "What It Is All About", and because you want to do something different, quirky, or because a teacher knew it would be just your bag.

What's it about? Philosophy asks the big questions of why we are here (if we are here) and what underlies human thought. It is abstract, a study of ideas that has been going on for thousands of years. No right and wrong answers, but a chance to make your argument. Much philosophy is linked to another subject, so you may study, for instance, the history of philosophy, moral philosophy, political philosophy, aesthetics or ethics. Philosophy of the mind debates the arguments for and …